DDCP-YD/ETD (2016)

Supporting regional and national Roma youth participation

with the focus on youth policies

National training seminar for young people from Ukraine

Odessa, Ukraine

3 – 8 November 2016

Call for participants

Basic information about the national training seminar

The Youth Department of the Council of Europe, in co-operation with the Ministry of Youth and Sport of Ukraine and Roma non-governmental partners, will organise a national training seminar for Roma and non-Roma young people who can act as multipliers in their communities and/or their regions. The training seminar will support the participation and mobilisation of young multipliers to work for combating antigypsyism and for supporting Roma young people’s participation on the local level and in youth policy processes. The training seminar will be held in Odessa, Ukraine, in November 2016 from 3 to 7 and will bring together 30 participants from Ukraine.

In 2015, a first seminar was organised with Roma young people in Kiev. The meeting put the basis of a process of mobilisation of Roma young people and for youth policies to become more aware of specific Roma youth issues.

The seminar will support the mobilisation of Roma youth and youth organisations from Ukraine for their involvement in mainstreaming Roma in the Ukrainian youth policy at national and local levels.

The objectives of the training seminar are to:

• consolidate and extend the process initiated in 2015 on mainstreaming Roma youth issues in the process of making the Ukrainian youth policy;

·         strengthen Roma youth participation and cooperation between Roma and non-Roma youth organisations in Ukraine;

• identify and incorporate a Roma youth component as part of the current national and local youth policy structures and processes;
• encourage the participation of  young Roma women in the processes of creating youth policy;
• develop personal and social competences of the participants and strengthen their self-organisation;
• identify opportunities and processes at national and local level that are of importance for social and economic development for Roma youth;
• develop ideas and draft activities that will have the intention of securing the participation of Ukrainian Roma youth at national and local level processes and programmes, with the support of the Council of Europe’s ROMED and Roma youth action plan. 

Profile of participants

The participants in the training seminar must be young people from organisations or youth community groups, for example from Roma youth organisations or youth organisations working with young Roma, from Ukraine who can also act as multipliers.

All candidates must also be:

-          young multipliers from organisations or informal youth groups or active people in their communities, for example from Roma youth organisations or youth organisations working with young Roma or active individual members of the Roma community;

-          aged 18 to 35 (exceptions are possible);

-          residents in Ukraine;

-          motivated to work for the participation of young Roma in their communities and for combating antigypsyism;

-          in a position to multiply what they learn in the training course in their communities, for example by carrying out initiatives with young Roma;

-          strongly connected with a local Roma community;

-          strongly connected with a local Roma community or interested to involve Roma young people;

-          available to arrive at the venue of the training course on 3th November till 14:00 and to leave on 8th November morning.

How to apply

In order to apply, interested candidates must fill in the application form attached. They also need to attach a support letter from their organisation (when they are representing an organisation), what is their role and possibilities to multiply what they learnt in their organisation or institution is clearly stated.

Conditions

The training course will be organised in Ukrainian. Romanes may be used as working language for working groups during the seminar.

National travel costs, accommodation and meals will be covered by organisers. Participants must arrive at the course venue on 3th November till 14:00 and to leave on 8th November morning.

Information about the applicant:

1.    Name and surname:

2.    Sex:                                                   

3.    Age:

4.    Nationality:   

5.    Link with Roma community:

6.    Working languages: Ukrainian / Romanes / other, please specify:

Contacts - Please note all correspondence will be sent to this address – please ensure it is complete

7.    Postal address (street, number, city, postal code, country):

8.    Telephone and mobile telephone:

9.    E-mail:

10. Do you have any access needs or requirements (e.g. dietary, disability, etc.)?

Information on the organisation/institution/group that supports your participation

11. Name of the organisation/institution/group that supports your participation in the course:

12. Postal address:

13. Website:

14. Describe briefly the aims, target group and activities of the organisation/institution and its relation to Roma youth participation:

15. What is your role in your organisation/institution/group?

 Experience

16. Please describe your most relevant experiences on Roma youth participation:

Motivation and follow-up

17. Why do you want to participate in this activity?

18. What do you want to learn from this activity?

19. What would you like to do after you participate in this activity with Roma young people for their participation and their involvement in policy-making?

20. I hereby declare that, if accepted, I shall make myself available for the residential seminar (3 November until 14:00 – 8 November in the morning):

Application procedure

Interested candidates must send the application form attached filed in by email to Denis DURMISH, [email protected]before 10 October, midday CET.