Vadul-lui-Voda, June 30 - July 8, 2006
We are pleased to announce You that, the European Movement of Moldova, the Centre Internacional de Formation Européenne (CIFE), France and Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales (IEHEI), France with the financial support of the East East: Partnership beyond Borders Program of the Soros Foundation-Moldova presents the First Edition of Moldova Summer University, that will take place between June the 30th and July the 8th 2006, in Vadul lui Voda, Moldova. The Summer School "Black Sea Region in the New Enlarged Europe" will create a favourable framework to address issues regarding the interaction between the region and the European Union to be delivered for a young interested audience and will contribute to raising its awareness on possible future interactions and their consequences.
The program will comprise various activities like: debates, round tables, meetings and discussions with notorious personalities, diplomats, journalists, etc., and other outdoor activities aimed to establish contacts for the development of a closer relationship of the youth leaders from EU and the Black Sea Region, to broaden and strengthen the knowledge about the European perspectives of the region. It will offer also information from the first source about the situation in the Republic of Moldova, the problems it is facing now and the opportunities the Neighbourhood Policy of the EU is offering to Moldova and the countries from the region. There will be organized moderated sessions in the first part of the day, which will be combined with activities focusing on establishing relations between the participants as representatives of different cultures and countries through various meetings and outdoor activities, such as visiting representative places of interest of Moldova.
The target group of the Summer School are young leaders involved in NGO activities or students preferably of socio-humanistic studies, interested to learn more about the challenges the countries of the Black Sea Region are facing with and about the prospects for these countries' integration into EU. The summer school will bring together for a week about 35 participants from EU-member countries, from the Black Sea Region countries – Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Romania and from the Republic of Moldova.
The participants will be selected based on an application form (resume of experience and letter of motivation) to share the way he/she will further apply the information and knowledge obtained at the summer school. The participants should be active members of an NGO willing to actively participate at all sessions and activities of the summer school and share the information about the country and organization the participant is coming from.
The courses of the Moldova Summer University will be in English.
Applications should be sent by June 5 th, 2006 to the following address: miscarea_europeana@yahoo.fr
For more information please see: www.euromoldova.ong.md
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