Development Office Newsletter: Issue N°1 2011

APPLY NOW! 6th edition of the SEE & the EU – Leadership Development Programme

Young professionals and post-graduate students are invited to apply for the ‘Southeast Europe and the EU – Leadership Development Programme’ (LDP) 2011/2012. The online application form is available until 27 April 2011.

Following a three-round selection process, representatives of the three partner institutions – the Development Office of the College of Europe, the European Fund for the Balkans and the TRANSFUSE Association –, will then identify the new generation of ‘LDP fellows’. Thirty young and promising candidates will be selected, 75% of whom coming from the Western Balkans.

The programme runs from September 2011 to April 2012 and includes the following components: a two-week Summer Academy in Austria and Slovakia, joint activities in sub-transnational groups, a five-day workshop in Brussels and Bruges.

More information and application form: www.seeyoungleaders.org

New EU Contract Award on Communication and Training! – Searching for experts

The Development Office of the College of Europe is part of one of the three winning consortia for the next Framework Contract 2011 of the European Commission, on its Lot 2 related to Communication and Training.

In the next 4 years, the Development Office will receive requests for training and communication activities coming from the European Commission or the European External Action Service. In this framework, the Development Office is actively looking for high level junior (minimum 3 years of experience) and senior (minimum 5 years of experience) experts with strong expertise in communication and / or training.

If you fit in these profiles and wish to be contacted for future short term work assignments, please register in our experts’ database: http://experts.coleurope.eu

A series of tailored training courses for Serbian civil servants

In the framework of a service contract with the European Commission, the Development Office of the College of Europe is setting up a series of three-week tailored training courses for Serbian civil servants from central and local administrations.
The following topics are part of the tailor-made curriculum: EU structures and decision-making procedures; legislative harmonisation with the EU acquis; policy-making and reforms in the process of the European integration; pre- and post-accession EU funds; negotiations on specific acquis chapters. Three editions of the course will be organised in Bruges (21 March- 8 April; 9-27 May; 4-22 July), and 90 civil servants will be trained in total.
In addition to the training courses for the civil servants, the Development Office is also training all the “community multipliers” selected under this project. A total of 54 professionals from various backgrounds (civil society, NGOs, SMEs, education, media, etc.) will be trained in EU affairs, attending either the ‘Intensive Seminar on the EU’, organised every summer since 1994, or a tailored three-week programme.