The Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) Youth Network, implemented by the European Commission’s Directorate General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA), has launched a call for young people to embark on a one-year exciting learning path, from July 2024 to June 2025.

The OCT Youth Network is responsible for formulating the EU’s international partnership and development policy. OCT Youth Network members learn debate, engage, participate, and co-lead activities on youth perspectives of the EU-OCT Partnership with their OCT peers and with other actors.

Eligibility

• Be between 20 to 28 years old
• Representing all 13 OCTs associated with the European Union (EU), namely: Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Greenland, New Caledonia, Saba, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten, and Wallis and Futuna.
• Have a good command of English
• Link to one or several OCTs by family link, residence or professional/educational/civil society engagement, or others
• Experience and current engagements in the local community.

To ensure diversity and inclusion, candidates belonging to marginalised groups, minority groups, with special needs, disabilities, or in any situation of vulnerability are strongly encouraged to apply.

Deadline: 6 June 2024, 23:59 CEST (Brussels time).

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