EUROPE - Students for Liberty Conferences

Announcing our 2014 Fall Regional Conferences!

The great success of last year's nine Regional Conferences, which were attended by more than 1300 students in total, has shown that there is a strong demand for pro-liberty conferences offering an opportunity for discussion with world-renowned speakers and leaders in the liberty movement. This year European Students For Liberty is bringing these opportunities even closer to students by nearly doubling the number of Regional Conferences and bringing them to 15 different countries! And thanks to Rising Tide Foundation, our sponsor for the conferences, we're able to provide free admission to all interested students. Here is the line up of our 16 Regional Conferences so you can begin your plans to attend:

Paris, France: 13. September 2014 Prague, Czech Republic: 20. September 2014 Amsterdam, Netherlands: 27. September 2014 Sarajevo, Bosnia: 27. September 2014 Tbilisi, Georgia: 11. October 2014 Brussels, Belgium: 18. October 2014 Sofia, Bulgaria: 18. October 2014 Bergen, Norway: 18. October 2014 Madrid, Spain: 25. October 2014 Cologne, Germany: 25. October 2014 Milan, Italy: 8. November 2014 Warsaw, Poland: 8. November 2014 Reykjavik, Iceland: 15. November 2014 Belgrade, Serbia: 22. November 2014 Munich, Germany: 29 November 2014 Istanbul, Turkey: 6 December 2014 More info here: http://studentsforliberty.org/europe/

AZERBAIJAN - Young Nature Friend

Application deadline 20th of July 2014.

Education and environment, two problems that start getting closer but that still misread too much, then they could work together in a complementary way, for the improvement of the quality of life of everybody. We as a Naturefriends aimed to involve young environmentalists / future trainers to develop their experience and knowledge on outdoor educational processes. It will include 35 young environmentalists (from Europe and Azerbaijan) aged between 16 to 30 years. The training will take place 7 - 11 September 2014 and will held on one of the mountain areas of Azerbaijan.

Participants are expected:

- To have been already involved at least one time in a team of trainers designing, implementing a training course in the framework of Non-Formal Education
- To have had international experience in the youth work field with a function of responsibility – organizing international youth projects, leading a youth exchange, etc.
- To have the potential and need to develop training competences and act after the course as a trainer for Naturefriends projects and/or for training courses organized by the Naturefriends network organizations
- To show initiative and willingness to self-direct their own learning
- To be able to run training courses in English

The Azerbaijan Nature Friends and IYNF will select participants mainly from Naturefriends network. The participants will have to cover 30% of their travel costs and pay a participation fee of 35€, which includes the training and full board. Participants are expected to bring sleeping bags.

More info here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Dj8MBXq2dlZJ3eoFdz74Thi6u0ipamJlZs8WFvzKbDg/viewform

ROMANIA - Agent Languages and Technologies Summer School

Bucharest, 8 – 12 September 2014

Application deadline 

15th of July - early registration

15th of August - late registration

The Agent Languages and Technologies Summer School aims at raising the awareness concerning the applicability of, and the research paths driven by multi-agent systems programming languages.

The goal of the summer school is to provide an overview of the most popular programming languages and frameworks of the moment for multi-agent systems, and to identify the pertinent issues that form new directions of research.

The school represents a fine occasion to meet people working in the field and to establish contacts through social interactions that may lead to research collaborations in the future.

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES FOR MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS:

       Jason – A talk by Prof. Jomi Hübner

       2APL – A talk by Prof. Mehdi Dastani

DESIGN METHODOLOGIES AND TOOLS FOR AGENT BASED APPLICATIONS:

       Cartago – A talk by Prof. Alessandro Ricci

       JaCaMo – A tutorial provided by Prof. Jomi Hübner and Alessandro Ricci

       2APL – A tutorial provided by Prof. Mehdi Dastani

AGENTS WITH NORMATIVE REASONING:

       Normative Multi-Agent Systems – A talk by Prof. Wamberto Vasconcelos

       MOISE - A talk by Prof. Olivier Boissier

ELECTRONIC ORGANIZATIONS

       Group Norms for Multi-Agent Organisations – A talk by Prof. Wamberto Vasconcelos

       2OPL – A talk by Prof. Mehdi Dastani

       Organization Oriented Programming with JaCaMo – A tutorial provided by prof. Olivier Boissier

 

In addition to participating to the talks of prominent researchers, the opportunity of exchanging ideas with key members of the agent community within such an event will represent a milestone in the research activity for many postgraduate students and an invaluable personal experience for anyone passionate by AI. The proposed discussions would help the participants get synchronized with those topics the community is presently debating upon.

More info here: 

http://altissimo.cs.pub.ro/

THE NETHERLANDS - Mobilising YOUth: Social Entrepreneurship for Peace International Summit

Application deadline 14 July 2014

Call for young social entrepreneurs

UNOY Peacebuilders is looking for 4 social entrepreneurs (either with a venture at an initial stage or in the planning phase) who are interested to participate in the social entrepreneurs International Summit that will take place in Amsterdam from 24 to 30 August 2014

Deadline to apply: 20 July 2014
Click here for more information (PDF).

Call for mentors in social entrepreneurship

UNOY Peacebuilders is looking for 3 experienced social entrepreneurs who are interested to mentor young people who are at the initial stage of their social ventures planning. The mentoring activity will mostly happen during August, including mentoring meetings online and in presence, and being part of a selection committee that will choose the best social ventures that will receive an economic prize for the start-up.

Deadline to apply: 20 July 2014
Click here fore more information (PDF).

More info here:
http://www.unoy.org/unoy/?p=9006
 http://www.unoy.org/unoy/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/International-Summit_EUpaxsearch_080714.pdf

PARIS, FRANCE - UNESCO Youth Forum

Application deadline 12 August

UNESCO launches a call for projects in order to identify and support 15 action projects (3 by region) which will be “certified” with the label “8th UNESCO Youth Forum” and implemented by, with and for young women and men between the 8th and the 9th UNESCO Youth Forum (October 2013-October 2015).

Thus, the selection and adoption of these 15 projects, which are expected to be in line with the UNESCO Youth Strategy 2014-2021, will be one of the major outcomes of the 8th UNESCO Youth Forum, to be held at the Organization Headquarters, Paris, France, from 29 to 31 October 2013, under the theme “Youth and Social Inclusion: Civic Engagement, Dialogue and Skills Development.”

Indeed, for the first time in its history, the UNESCO Youth Forum, created in 1999, will not only include strategic recommendations, but it will also select, support and plan innovative and concrete actions that can help achieve positive change for, with and by young women and men on several fields such as social inclusion, civic engagement and participation, social entrepreneurship and innovation, prevention of violence and conflicts, intercultural dialogue, democracy and skills development.

With this goal, the UNESCO’s call for projects launched this Monday 15 July 2013 is open to all young women and men who are members of a youth-led or youth-focused organization, project leaders or young entrepreneurs active in an established NGO. These young people are invited to submit their proposals for an innovative action project in their community, country or region, by filling in the submission form by 12 August 2013, the International Youth Day, midnight, Paris time.

After receiving these proposals, an independent international jury will pre-select 45 projects by the end of September 2013 and their initiators will be invited to submit one-minute video describing their project so that these 45 short films can be visible online by mid-October 2013. Then, during the 8th UNESCO Youth Forum, the young participants will examine and discuss the 45 pre-selected projects with a view to choosing a total of 15 (3 youth-led action projects per the five UNESCO regions). On 31 October 2013, the 15 projects awarded the “8th UNESCO Youth Forum” label will be announced and presented at the 37th UNESCO General Conference, in November 2013.

Allowing young people to submit recommendations to 195 UNESCO’s Member States’ representatives at the highest decision-making level, the UNESCO Youth Forum brings together, every two years, at the eve of the UNESCO General Conference, around 400 young participants from all over the world to exchange views, share experiences, reflect together and, above all, detect common preoccupations and problems.

For more info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/sv/news/unesco_launches_a_call_for_projects_driven_by_young_people/#.U7OxqJSSymx