Aim

The Federalist Leadership Academy aims to empower young people and activists to run civil society organisations in shrinking democratic spaces and to equip them with the skills to participate fully and effectively in their democratic societies. Through hands-on training in leadership, fundraising, federalism, advocacy, and countering disinformation, participants leave better prepared to defend democratic values and act in their communities and across Europe.

 Objectives

• Applying strategies for volunteer recruitment, retention and organisational development
• Engaging with the Revised European Charter on the Participation of Young People in Local and Regional Life, the Reykjavik principles and recommendations on protecting youth civil society and young people.
• Identifying relevant European funding mechanisms and producing a draft funding application through hands-on grant-writing work.
• Explaining the principles of federalism and its role in democratic governance, and communicating federalist ideas to different audiences.
• Designing an advocacy strategy, including stakeholder mapping, message development and use of legislative cycles and democratic institutions.
• Assessing disinformation and nationalist rhetoric, and using tools for identifying and countering false information in digital environments.
• Demonstrating public speaking, campaigning and communication skills through simulation and group work.

 About the organisation

JEF Europe (Young European Federalists) is an European wide youth organisation bringing together over 35 national sections with the goal of promoting a democratic European federation.  JEF positions itself as transpartisan and serves as a platform for debate, campaigning, and political education for young people committed to the European project.

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