Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Young Citizens Forum 2025 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: March 2, 2025

Applications are open for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Young Citizens Forum 2025. The Young Citizens Forum (previously the Young Leaders Forum) is an inclusive program designed to deal with social, financial, and political challenges at native, regional, and world ranges. It offers a platform for proficient and engaged younger people, together with all activists, who’re dedicated to selling social justice and democracy.

Since its inception in 2000, this system has been working in Tanzania and has cultivated a robust community of over 500 alumni, lots of whom now maintain key management positions nationwide. The program is hosted on the FES workplace in Dar es Salaam, with classes happening over two to a few days every month for five months.

Participants collect for two-3 days every session between May and November on the FES Office in Dar es Salaam. The classes tackle a variety of matters and abilities, together with important communication, design pondering, social justice, urbanization, the worldwide financial system, and simply transition. Participants have interaction immediately in these classes, which additionally embrace group visits to apply what they’ve discovered. Some classes are performed on-line.

Benefits

• FES Tanzania covers all bills associated to this system. Be conscious that you’ll not must pay a participation charge, both in the course of the application course of or all through this system. Additionally, FES Tanzania will present transport and lodging prices for residents from upcountry and Zanzibar.

Eligibility

Candidates should meet the next standards:

• Age: Applicants have to be between 21 and 35 years outdated.
• Nationality and Residency: The program is open to Tanzanian residents dwelling in Tanzania (each Mainland and Zanzibar). Applicants have to be accessible within the nation for the total period of this system.
• Education: A Bachelor’s diploma or equal qualification is required. However, college students at the moment pursuing their first diploma are additionally eligible to apply.
• Active Involvement: Applicants needs to be actively engaged in a challenge or initiative, or have earlier expertise in civil society, political events, or commerce unions.

Application

Applications closes on Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM (EAT). Successful candidates will probably be notified on March 17 to conduct the eligibility exams, which can happen on the April 3-4, 2025 for Mainland candidates and April 8, 2025 for Zanzibar candidates.

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For extra data, go to Young Citizens Forum.