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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Human Rights Summer School

Human Rights Monitoring Institute is currently accepting applications for the Summer School “Using Lisbon Treaty for Building Active Citizenship”.

The Summer School is designed for young leaders active in civil society and is aimed at directly addressing the subjects of European citizenship, human rights, freedoms and values with the goal of forming connections and sharing good practice examples among EU human rights NGOs thus contributing to stronger and tighter civil society throughout the EU.

PROGRAMME

See Summer School Programme

The School lecturers, professors and experts will come from diverse backgrounds, including active national and international NGOs, human rights institutions, and universities. They will share their expertise related to Lisbon Treaty, European citizenship, human rights, freedoms and values, as well as experience in human rights advocacy and civil society development. The School is organized in partnership with Mykolas Romeris University.

LOCATION

Vilnius, Lithuania (see more at http://lietuva.lt/en/)

ELIGIBILITY

The program is aimed at young civil society leaders - young professionals from EU-based NGOs, who are interested in EU and human rights law as well as in developing effective human rigths advocacy campaigns. Please note that the School is partially supported by Europe for Citizens funding scheme and is designed for empowering EU citizens, therefore only EU citizens, permanent EU residents, persons currently employed/interning/volunteering at an NGO based in one of the EU Member States or students enrolled on the course at a university based in one of the EU Member States are eligible to apply for full or partial scholarship (due to the pending accession to the EU in mid-2013, Croatian residents are also eligible to apply).*

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