EU-LAC Birregional School of Local Political Leadership for Women 2026 (Scholarship available) – YOA

Deadline: July 24, 2026

Applications are open for the EU-LAC Birregional School of Local Political Leadership for Women 2026. The EU-LAC Foundation is launching the EU-LAC Birregional School of Local Political Leadership for Women 2026, conceived as a strategic house for coaching, trade and networking amongst girls leaders from Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union.

Their goal is to deliver collectively girls with expertise within the political, neighborhood and social spheres so as to strengthen their management and advocacy capacities on the native degree by means of a feminist, intersectional and human rights-based mostly method. The School promotes the trade of experiences, the event of intergenerational mentoring networks and entry to sensible instruments in areas similar to political management, communication, negotiation and public administration.

The programme will mix preparatory digital classes with an intensive in-particular person assembly, fostering each accessibility and significant dialogue and studying amongst contributors from each areas. Through this initiative, the EU-LAC Foundation seeks to contribute to strengthening girls’s political participation and to the event of management succesful of driving democratic and inclusive transformations inside their communities. The second version of the Birregional School of Local Political Leadership for Women will happen in October 2026 in Panama.

Scholarships

• For chosen contributors who point out of their application kind that they’re unable to cowl their journey, lodging, subsistence and native transport prices by means of third-get together funding, the EU-LAC Foundation will cowl these bills by means of the direct buy of journey tickets, resort reservations and a stipend to cowl meals and native transport through the days through which the in-particular person element of the Leadership School in Panama takes place.

Eligibility

• Young girls
  • Proof of membership in a community, programme, organisation or establishment, along with a letter of assist endorsing their application.
  • A dedication is anticipated to take part within the preparatory modules, the in-particular person assembly in Panama and the observe-up actions.
  • Demonstrated curiosity in territorial political management can be valued, whether or not in formal areas similar to native councils or native governments, or in casual areas similar to feminist collectives, neighborhood organisations or neighbourhood networks. Initial coaching or curiosity in birregional relations with a give attention to gender, native growth or civic participation may even be taken into consideration.
  • Applicants also needs to present willingness to share located experiences, study from different territorial contexts, strengthen their rising management alongside different girls leaders, and have an curiosity in actively becoming a member of the EU-LAC WIN Network from a perspective of municipal or neighborhood political management, or already be part of this community.
• Senior girls leaders
  • A consolidated monitor document in political or neighborhood processes, with confirmed capability to make an influence of their communities, municipalities or native areas.
  • Proof of membership in a community, programme, organisation or establishment is required, along with a letter of assist endorsing their expertise.
  • These contributors will need to have expertise in territorial political management, whether or not from municipal governments, councils or neighborhood boards, or by means of excessive-influence social and neighborhood initiatives.
  • They are anticipated to actively have interaction within the preparatory modules, the in-particular person assembly in Panama and the observe-up actions, in addition to to share the information gained from their expertise so as to enrich collective processes with girls leaders from Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe.
  • Their participation can be marked by an lively hyperlink to the EU-LAC WIN Network or an curiosity in becoming a member of it, and by a dedication to proceed selling gender equality and remodeling their contexts from a feminist, intersectional and human rights-based mostly perspective.

Application

The application documentation required to be thought-about for this name have to be written in Spanish or English and consist of the next:

• Signed application form
• Proof of membership in a community, programme, organisation or establishment
• Letter of assist/endorsement for this application from an individual or from a community/organisation/establishment
  The documentation have to be submitted in PDF or MS Word format.
  Applications submitted after the deadline, incomplete purposes, and, on the whole, these that don’t adjust to the circumstances set out in these Terms of Reference is not going to be accepted. Applications obtained after the established deadline is not going to obtain acknowledgement of receipt or another kind of communication.

Applications needs to be despatched to the eye of Dr Anna Barrera (EU-LAC Foundation).
Email: [email protected]
Subject line: EU-LAC Women’s Political Leadership School 2026 + Applicant’s Name

For extra data, go to EU-LAC Birregional School of Local Political Leadership for Women.