{"id":796,"date":"2021-10-07T09:42:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T06:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambhelsinki.esteri.it\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2021\/10\/eu-balkan-youth-forum-what-is-europe\/"},"modified":"2021-10-07T09:42:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T06:42:26","slug":"eu-balkan-youth-forum-what-is-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambhelsinki.esteri.it\/it\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2021\/10\/eu-balkan-youth-forum-what-is-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"EU-Balkan Youth Forum &#8220;What is Europe?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ambhelsinki.esteri.it\/ambasciata_helsinki\/resource\/img\/2021\/10\/banner-v1-1920px-neg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The EU-Balkan forum &#8220;What is Europe?&#8221;<\/strong>, funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, will take <strong>place 22-26 November in Rome<\/strong>. It is an opportunity for youth from the entire continent to discuss common issues, face policymakers and mobilize new energies from below, facilitating the emergence of a young transnational network to engineer new initiatives and bring about fresh views on both the EU and Balkan integration.<\/p>\n<p>The Forum will also<strong> channel its conclusions to the \u201cConference on the Future of Europe\u201d<\/strong> launched by the EU for 2021-2022, to allow citizens from across the continent to submit their views on the future of the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation will help the participants start new projects after the Forum, with a view to realize effective initiatives in bringing together networks from different countries across the EU and the Balkans and address the issues that stand in the way of further integration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PARTICIPANTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two university students for each of the 27 UE Member States<\/strong> and four from each of the Western Balkans 6 countries. Working Language is English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Participants will receive air tickets and full board treatment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>REQUIREMENTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Applications are welcome from University students of any major from all EU and non-EU Balkan countries, with a proven interest in EU issues and preferably with an active participation in youth networks\/associations to increase awareness on issues of EU integration. Ability and preparedness to act on transnational projects in the main areas discussed by the Forum is appreciated.<br \/><strong>Applicants should have no more than 26 years of age by November 30th.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Applicants should send a one-page CV, together with a one page proposal<\/strong> on how youth can make a difference in no more than two of the five topics to be discussed in the working groups at the Forum.<br \/><strong>The deadline<\/strong> for applications is <strong>October 15th.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The event will be held in person<\/strong> and participants will need to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19. All health safety measures and distancing will be in place.<\/p>\n<p>Register\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eubalkanforum.org\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU-Balkan forum &#8220;What is Europe?&#8221;, funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, will take place 22-26 November in Rome. It is an opportunity for youth from the entire continent to discuss common issues, face policymakers and mobilize new energies from below, facilitating the emergence of a young transnational network to [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambhelsinki.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambhelsinki.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambhelsinki.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambhelsinki.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambhelsinki.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ambhelsinki.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambhelsinki.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambhelsinki.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}