GOAL’s NextGen Youth Programme 2025 for young people worldwide (€400 stipend)

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Application Deadline: April 1st, 2025

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 GOAL’s NextGen Youth Programme. GOAL’s NextGen Youth Programme brings collectively young people from everywhere in the world to raised perceive international justice points and deepen their understanding of Global Citizenship.

This programme will information young, motivated changemakers to be taught concerning the rising crises dealing with our world with a give attention to local weather and well being methods. Participants will then work collectively to think about options for the long run by creating awareness-raising supplies that can feed into GOAL’s public engagement actions.

Sessions

The 2025 Programme will encompass 10 periods that happen on-line, with 2 periods in-person for Irish based mostly contributors.

Programme Dates:  

• Sat May 24 Irish based mostly contributors in-person 11-4pm.
• Tue May 27 International contributors on-line 3-5pm
• Thu June 5 All contributors on-line 3-5pm
• Thu June 12 All contributors on-line 3-5pm
• Saturday 20/21 Irish based mostly contributors in particular person retreat. Time and site TBC.
• Thu June 26 All contributors on-line 3-5pm
• Thu July 3 All contributors on-line 3-5pm
• Thu July 10 All contributors on-line 3-5pm
• Thu July 17 All contributors on-line 3-5pm

In order to make sure participation of this international cohort, periods will happen on Thursdays at 3pm Irish Time (8am Honduras, 2pm Sierra Leone, 4pm Zimbabwe, 5pm Ethiopia & Uganda).

Requirements

To be thought-about, candidates should meet the next standards:

• Current resident of Ireland, Ethiopia, Honduras, Iraq, Sierra Leone, Syria, Turkey, Uganda, or Zimbabwe.
• Comfortably fluent in English.
• Between 18 and 25 years outdated.
• Available for 10 seminars between May and July. Sessions will fall on Thursdays and Saturdays (see timeline for precise dates).
• Be open and prepared to interact in teamwork in between seminars.
• Demonstrate fundamental/rising understanding of native and international points.
• Show clear initiative and need to be a part of constructive change (this might be demonstrated by volunteering, participation in native occasions, workshop facilitation, tutoring, inventive extra-curricular actions, and many others.).
• Interest in taking part in creative strategies of studying (this might be demonstrated by a ardour for drama, artwork, inventive writing, journalism, music or every other creative self-discipline).
• Reliable entry to a “device” and web is desired however not important. If you don’t have entry to a tool, please tell us in your application, and we are going to endeavour to assist your participation.

Stipends

• In order to assist participation, stipends will probably be obtainable for all profitable contributors. Stipends are meant to cowl prices of web and knowledge in addition to any journey prices incurred in the course of the programme.
• Stipends of €400 for the period of the programme can be found for all profitable contributors.

How to Apply

Email [email protected] with the topic line ‘Country, Full Name,’  by April 1st. Applications who don’t comply with this format won’t be accepted.

1. In your electronic mail tell us if in case you have entry to a cellphone or laptop computer
2. Attach your CV (preserve it easy! An define of your academic background, voluntary and/or skilled work is sufficient) and a 1-page cowl letter to deal with the next factors:
   1. Tell us about your self! Why are you making use of for this programme, and why do you assume you’re a good match?
   2. What abilities do you deliver to this programme, and what would you want to realize from it?

OR 

Record a brief video (1-2 minutes) detailing your academic background, voluntary and/or skilled work and addressing,

1. Why are you making use of for this programme, and why do you assume you’re a good match?
2. What abilities do you deliver to this programme, and what would you want to realize from it?

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the GOAL’s NextGen Youth Programme