Call for Prep Team Members - Resilience Building Summer Camp [CLOSED]
The call for Prep Team members for the Resilience Building Summer Camp is now open!
Our Resilience Summer Camp will take place from 7th – 12th of July 2025 in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, hosted by Gutta-Club.
You can find more information about our Work Plan 2025 that this Summer Camp is a part of HERE.
The Summer Camp intends to equip participants with knowledge and skills related to resilience building for operating in environments characterised by democratic backsliding, and empower them to disseminate that knowledge and skills among their peers.
The objectives we will aim to reach are:
Enhance the understanding of democratic backsliding among participants by exploring topics such as rights restrictions, lack of media freedom, mental health deterioration, and shrinking space for civil society.
Provide a safe space for participants to analyse and understand root causes of democratic backsliding, it’s trends and effects on societies, and possible ways of resisting and countering these trends.
Equip participants with essential skills for resilience-building in autocratic environments, including adaptability, resourcefulness, strategic thinking, community building, and prioritizing mental health and well-being.
Empower participants to apply knowledge and skills gained to their organisational workings, disseminate them among their peers, and implement them in their national and regional contexts.
If you are a young person aged 16-35 from any of the eligible countries* (either national or resident), and you are interested in working with us on this event, we invite you to apply to be a member of this preparatory team.
Prep Team members should:
have a working level knowledge of English,
be familiar with non-formal education methods and session facilitation,
have some experience with international events, either as participants or organisers,
have knowledge of CSOs and youth movements structures and functioning,
be active in their local communities and familiar with the political context of Eastern European countries,
be available during the preparation and realisation period (April-July),
be responsible about fulfilling their tasks,
have good organisational skills,
be a team players,
be committed to the aims of the project and CDN’s values
We especially encourage young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and communities to apply to be a part of our Prep Team.
Main responsibilities of the prep-team include:
Participation in a two-day live prep team meeting in Serbia on 12th and 13th of April (2 full working days), with arrival day as 11th and departure day as 14th of April;
Active participation in the regular (weekly or bi-weekly) online meetings prior to the event (April-July / 2-3 h a week);
Preparation and facilitation of the program of the event; designing and preparing sessions based on non-formal education methodology, invitation and communication with speakers, experts and partners in accordance with the project aims (4-6 h a week);
Dissemination of the call and selection of participants, preparation of participants for the event and providing them with all the necessary information regarding the program;
Helping with the promotion of the event and ensuring media visibility;
Taking care of practicalities and of the general well-being of the participants during the event;
Full participation during the entire event and prep team meeting before and after the event,
Helping with the reporting of the event.
Being a prep-team member at this event would offer you:
Working in a lively and youthful international environment;
Experience in managing international activities – preparation, implementation and reporting;
Getting familiar with Green values, political knowledge of Eastern Europe, the work of CDN, and the work of Council of Europe;
Getting to know activists and young politicians from different (Eastern) European contexts;
A possibility to develop your leadership and group work skills;
A lot of work and a lot of fun!
Practicalities:
Being a prep team member is an unpaid, voluntary position. However, accommodation, food, working space, travel, and visa costs for the preparatory team will be fully covered.
For selection of travel means for both Prep Team meeting and the activity, the condition is to combine the most economic and environmentally friendly way (lowest price + travel time + CO2 emissions).
More information about travel regulations will be shared upon acceptance.
DEADLINE for submitting online applications is 16th of March, 23:59 CET.
You will be informed about the results by email approximately one weeks after the deadline.
Please add project.coordinator@cdnee.org to your contacts, so that you do not receive our reply in the spam folder.
Bellow is the link to the Application Form. Please read the instructions on the form carefully!
There is an option for you to answer some questions in the video format, so make sure to check the application some time before you plan to submit responses.
*Eligible countries are: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo**, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, Turkey an Ukraine
**All references to Kosovo, whether to the territory, institutions or population, in this text shall be understood in full compliance with the United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1244 and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo.
This activity, as well as the Work Plan this activity is a part of, is carried out with funding from the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe.
