From September 1st to 7th, the European Conference on Sustainability for young adults (18-28 years) will be held in Bonn. This conference is organised by a German group of students within the network of the Youth Future Project.
Imagine that YOU can come together with 100 other young people from all
over Europe, 20 junior scientists and about 6 Laureates of the Right
Livelihood Award (“Alternative Nobel Prize”) and the German Environment
Prize. Together, on an eye-to-eye level and from an interdisciplinary
and multi-perspective angle, you will work on challenges and innovative
solutions in the field of sustainability .
During workshops, lectures, and
discussions you will learn about the views and actions of important
activists in the field of sustainability and you can gain an integrated
understanding of the multidimensional challenges of environmental
problems. We
want to enable you to make new personal experiences and encounter new
methodological approaches to sustainabilty issues. The multi-perspective
approach shall encourage us to go beyond our academic disciplinary
frameworks.
Therefore, during this
four-day-long process, we will take a look at central challenges in the
field of sustainablity in small working goups. During the conference
lecturers from various fields (e.g. economy, ecology or social science)
will be present in the working goups. So we will learn to understand the
different challenges sustainability poses to various stakeholders and
actors.
During the conference we will use our
new knowledge and experiences as advice for future actions and practical
next steps that you can implement through journalistic, academic
research, civil-societal or environmental projects, which we will
initiate in the last days of the conference.
The most promising ideas, developed during the conference, will be supported for one year in the “Visionaries in Action”-support-programme. They will be offered a starting capital of up to 2.000 Euros as well as coaching and professional seminars in NPO-project management.
Costs
The contribution-fee for early applications amounts to 115 EUR until May, 31st. From June, 1st on
the minimum contribution is 145 EUR, although you can choose to pay
more in order to help other participants come to the conference who
would otherwise not be able to join us.
Scholarships
If you want to come to the conference but can not cover the
expenses for the participation fee and/or the travel cost, you can apply
for the Youth Future Conference’s Scholarship. The scholarship follows the principle of solidarity:
People who can afford paying a higher participation fee enable
financial less situated people to come to the conference by paying more
than indicated. The scholarship is dedicated only to people between 18
and 30 years living or studying in Europe.
The number of scholarships granted depends on how many people apply
for the scholarship and for how much money they apply. For the
organizers it is much easier to cover the participation fee than the
travel expenses. Of cause it is possible to, for example, only apply for
a part of your travel expenses. For example when your whole itinerary
is about 200€ and you can only cover 100€ by yourself, you can apply
for the remaining 100€. You can check more info and apply for scholarship grant here.
The first places will be confirmed from the 3rd of June on. After this more places will be given out continuously.
If you would like to participate, but do not know, if you are really
invited, for example because you feel to old, or to young, or because
your are not living in Europe, please get in touch. In many cases we
will find a solution. Just shoot us an email at conference@youthfuture.de
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