Tailor-made training course on the EU institutions working addressed to university students from all countries, wanting to pursue a career in EU affairs. The programme includes visits to the Institutions, meetings with professionals from lobby organisations, NGOs, youth organisations, EU Institutions, EU political parties. By the end of the week, students will have a good overview of the different possibilities open to them.

Deadline to register is 30^th May 2012.

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The course is addressed to young people interested in establishing their own business and willing to get inspired and learn more from experienced and successful entrepreneurs. The course will be done in an innovative way, without teachers, lecture style courses, or power point presentations, but real entrepreneurs sharing their experience with students giving them an inside view of entrepreneurship.Deadlines to apply are: 7^th May, 21^st May and 13^th June 2012.

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Students and young people from all continents are invited to participate to this five day event characterised by intense negotiations, getting to know the working procedures of the United Nations, as well as by cultural exchange, gaining experience and making new friends. Interested applicants should send their registration by 1^st July 2012.

All details are available here

Young people from 9 to 25 years of age worldwide are invited to submit short videos of one to five minutes and share their thoughts, experiences, opinions, questions and suggestions about migration and diversity. Videos must have been completed after January 2010 and, if not in English, must have English subtitles.

European Youth Award aims to select and promote best practice in e-Content from young people and students under 30. It demonstrates young european’s potential to create outstanding digital & social projects and serves  as a platform for promising talents to stimulate and start social business ventures.

Find out more  European Youth Award

The Council of Europe Youth Department is inviting all young bloggers and online activists concerned by human rights violations,  discrimination and racism to apply for the training course taking place between May and December 2012, comprising a  seminar between 20-27 May 2012 in the European Youth Centre Budapest as a first stage in their involvement in a long term campaign against racism, xenophobia and discrimination.

ISFiT, the International Student Festival in Trondheim, is the world’s largest student festival with a thematic focus. In order to organise the 2013 festival, ISFIT is looking for ambassadors  all over the world to spread the word about it.

The prize is awarded to a student or a student organisation that has made a particular effort to promote peace, democracy and human rights in a non-violent way. The winner will receive the prize during the International Student Festival in Trondheim (ISFiT) in February 2013.

The World Youth Movement for Democracy has launched the second Global Photo Contest! The aim of the contest is to capture the ways in which democracy can be reflected in our daily lives, and create images that tell stories about how people see, and where people find, democracy.Young people, from 18 to 35 years old, from all around the world are invited to join the contest and send their photographs.

European young people under 21 years of age, who made a short film this year already or are thinking of making one, now have the chance to showcase their talent to the rest of Europe. The short films  (in English or providing English subtitles)   should be less than 5 minutes long, completed after September 2011, of any productions techniques. The deadline for submissions is 28 September 2012.
All detailed information about the competition can be found here