[Falkor-info] International Youth Seminar on Diversity issues, Georgia

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Forwarded from Young Georgians for Europe:


Dear friends,

We are glad to invite your organisations to participate in the 
International Youth Seminar: “Diversity – Is it a Gift or Obstacle?” - 
Youth Dialogue on Ethnic And Cultural Diversity Issues, to be held on 
January 29 – February 4, 2008, in Georgia (near Tbilisi).

The event will be held with the financial support of the European Youth 
Foundation.

Our aim is to promote minority integration and protection of minority 
rights by launching youth dialogue and exchanging good practice in the 
field.
Objectives are as following:

-To gather representatives of the youth organisations working on 
integration and Human Rights issues for sharing experience and 
generating new ideas;
-To attract attention of Georgian government towards importance of the 
integration and minority rights protection issue;
-To elaborate and propose to Georgian institutions concrete plan of 
youth involvement in minority integration.

Working language: English

Profile of Participants:

Voluntary or professional youth workers, representing Local, Regional, 
National or International Youth NGOs.
All candidates should be:
- Age 18 – 35;
- Able to work in English;
- Committed fully to attend the course and be supported by their youth 
organization.

Financial conditions:

- Organizers will cover the expenses of the local transportation, 
accommodation, meals as well as the cultural program for the participants;
- Participants will receive up to 70% of their travel and visa costs 
(maximum of 300 EURO);
- Participants are expected to use the most economic and ecological 
means of transport. We strongly encourage you to use train, bus and/or 
ferry as the main means of travel. Please remember that if you want to 
receive travel reimbursement, you need to bring all tickets and receipts;
- Participation fee (20 Euro) will be deducted from travel reimbursement.

Application procedure and deadline:

Please use the application form which can be downloaded from 
http://www.falkor.org/downloads/Application-form-YGE.doc
Applications must be sent to ygeorgians@yahoo.com by November 1, 2007 at 
the latest.

The selected participants will be informed by December 10, 2007.

YGE team