GLOBAL OPPORTUNITY: 1st World Youth Meeting for a Sustainable Future

Bari, Italy, 19-21 January 2010.
Deadline: 10 December 2009
All expenses paid

(forwarded to SCM from Canadian Catholic Campus Ministries, one of our ecumenical partners)

The Italian government and the Regione Puglia will be hosting the “1st World Youth Meeting for a Sustainable Future”, in the context of the initiative “Ni, mondlokaj civitanoj- We, Global Local citizens” (NMC) which seeks to promote sustainable development and youth participation in decision-making at both local and global level. The Meeting will bring together 500 youth delegates from 90 countries and more than a 1000 participants who are actively involved in community and local action, implementing innovative ideas and promoting change. It will include a series of workshops addressing five thematic clusters: Education; Citizenship/civic engagement; Environment/Climate change; Human Safety and Development; Labor, entrepreneurship and economy.

The youth delegates should:

• Be between 18 and 30 years old
• Be agents of change within their societies, primarily at the community level, leading innovative approaches tostimulate political, social and cultural advances related to the thematic clusters addressed by the Meeting.
• Be able to spread learning and outcomes within their communities and networks in order to multiply theconference impact.
• Have proficiency in at leastone of the following languages: English, French, Spanish or Italian.

If you are interested in participating you would need to subscribe, by filling in the online form at: http://www.nimociv.org/web/ (“Join the meeting” section), by 10December 2009.

NMC will cover costs for travel, food and lodging for all youth DELEGATES selected.For further practical information about the meeting, please see the document attached,visit the NMC website http://www.nimociv.org/web/ or contact Mr. Marco Ranieri (meeting@regione.puglia.it)

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