Luxemburgo

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Data de início: 01-09-2014

Data de fim: 01-07-2015

Vagas: 1

Duração: 10 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-03-2014

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 105 €

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Resumo: The project aims at encouraging participation of young people in society, by empowering them and by offering them spaces and the necessary support (information, contact with experts etc.). It offers young people the opportunity to get information and to voice their opinions, ideas, perspectives and needs, in a dialogue with other youngsters, experts and political representatives. The themes of the project are defined on the basis of the actual demand and needs of young people on previous activities and may therefore vary.

Within the project one volunteer will be working up to 10 months on the activity. The volunteer will be involved in the organisation of one Youth Convention and several activities of the Youth Parliament, two structures which are closely linked one to another, mainly by their goal: active involvement of young people in democratic life.

Youth Conventions are events that gather young people, mostly high school students, from all over Luxembourg in order to work and discuss on a specific key subject during one or even two whole days.
Traditionally the Youth Convention takes place in the National Parliament. Young people participate in 4 to 5 thematic workshops, led by experts of the concerned area. The workshops give the participants the opportunity to reflect, work and discuss on the chosen issue, with the above mentioned experts, other young people and members of the National or European Parliament.

The Youth Convention activity is organized in the framework of the structured dialogue and in the effort of the Luxembourg National Youth Council to improve participation of youth in society. The project sets a frame giving young people the possibility to raise their voice. Youth Conventions can therefore be considered as thematic platforms where youngsters have the chance to voice their ideas and opinions and make sure they are heard.
As a method out of the area of non-formal education, the Youth Convention also offers the opportunity to sensitize young people to different key subjects. It is meant to make young people reflect issues, encourage them to express their opinions on specific topics and to exchange on them, in order to reconsider their own approach.

For a lot of young people, the Youth Convention offers a first opportunity to actually get directly in touch with national politicians and it is certainly a very new experience to voice their demands in the presence of political representatives. The Youth Conventions are therefore not only to be considered as punctual thematic forums, but also try to give young people the taste of actively participating in the society they live in. After each Youth Convention, the CGJL commits itself to engage in a lobbying process and the dissemination of the results, carrying the opinion and demands to the political level and the general public.
The themes of the Youth Conventions are widespread and may vary according to running campaigns, national and international events, social and political topics. The subjects treated can reach from citizenship, media, consumption, xenophobia and discrimination, equal opportunities, to topics on European level. In general any issues that young people are or should be concerned by, may build the thematic framework of this activity.
Due to the thematic variety of this activity the volunteer on the project is required a certain flexibility and the will to do research in a lot of different areas.

The Youth Convention activity is closely related to the National Youth Parliament, a structure where young people, gather in plenary sessions and thematic commissions in order to discuss specific issues and find concrete solutions, which are adopted by the plenary as resolutions.

Perfil: Since the tasks related to this service will for a major part be on organisational level, it is important to have good knowledge of one of the officially in Luxembourg spoken languages, either German or French. Without that it will not be possible to do any of the assigned tasks on our own!

If you/or your candidate are/is a fluent speaker of one of these languages

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês/French