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Back The Meta-University is coming up: discover the four-day programme and make your own!

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Credit : John Schnobrich on unsplash

The next edition of the Meta-University will take place between 19-22 October 2021 featuring a rich programme built together with ten partner organisations coming from different regions of the world.

The Meta-University builds upon the experience of on-field Universities organised by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe, adapted to the digital environment. It is a global online meeting for networking, capacity building and peer learning for youth workers and youth policy makers. The programme offers a variety of activities, interactive tools, and informal gatherings to reflect on the impact that the digital shift, boosted by the pandemic, brought to the youth sector.

This multi-level experience offers the possibility to practice intercultural dialogue and promote interregional cooperation while sharing concerns and ideas in a comfortable but structured online space.

Ten workshops, three joint sessions and many informal gatherings will explore the impact the global pandemic had on women, the use to gamification to boost online intercultural competences, the models of youth participation in the digital sphere, the advancement of the “Youth, Peace and Security” Agenda and many other priority topics for the youth sector.

A community of hundreds of youth workers and youth policy makers will animate an event that wants to reduce the side effects that a disintegration of physical connections might bring to young people. The current pandemic crisis is, in fact, challenging the traditional spaces for dialogue and is accelerating the process of shrinking space for civil society.

Participants can choose among different levels of engagement and can interact with youth-led organisations, governmental bodies, international umbrella networks and intergovernmental institutions.

Connect, learn and shape the global youth agenda together!

 To take part in the Meta-University, you must register until 12 October.

 Discover more on our webpage.

Lisbon 29/09/2021
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The Youth Cooperation Programme aims at increasing youth participation and international cooperation in the youth sector to build more peaceful societies and more inclusive decision-making processes.

 

 

The activities promoted fall under three complementary dimensions: youth empowerment, networking and confidence building.

The youth empowerment schemes target youth workers and youth-multipliers improving their capacity to identify and address challenges related to human rights, global citizenship, democratic participation, peace, development and intercultural dialogue.

The networking activities provide spaces and opportunities for youth-led organisations and youth-related institutions to meet, debate, share good practices and cooperate, fostering partnership and joint actions to advance the global youth agenda.

The confidence building initiatives facilitate a structured dialogue between youth leaders and institutional representatives, creating a common ground on youth policies based on an increased awareness about each other's roles, challenges and priorities.

The Council of Europe human-rights approach is at the center of all initiatives promoted, while the non-formal education methodology is greatly used, following a peer-to-peer and participants-centred approach.

The projects and the activities are developed in close cooperation with various youth stakeholders (international organisations, youth networks, youth-serving institutions, national youth institutes, national youth councils… ) with the objective of enhancing multilevel governance structures based on more coordinated and inclusive processes.
In this sense, the North South Centre acts as facilitator providing a common framework of cooperation and interaction, privileging the interregional dimension.


 

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