The first World
Youth Fully Funded Conference on Kindness – Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Gandhi for
the Contemporary World is bringing together 100 rigorously selected young
leaders, and experts from around the world to expound what inspiration they
could draw from Gandhi’s ideas to non-violently transform their societies
towards sustainable peace. The UNESCO conference 2019 will be held in New Delhi
from August 20-23,2019. Be one of 100 exceptional young leaders from around the
world to be a part of the Conference.
The Mahatma
Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) is
UNESCO’s category 1 Research Institute that focuses on Sustainable Development Goal
(SDG) 4.7 towards education for building peaceful and sustainable societies
across the world. In line with its vision of ‘Transforming Education for
Humanity’, the Institute employs the whole-brain approach to education, with
programs that are designed to mainstream social and emotional learning in
education systems, innovate digital pedagogies and to put youth as global
citizens at the center of the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development
CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES:
- Intensive youth-led capacity
building workshops to enhance the capacities of youth on social and
emotional learning skills and competencies such as empathy, mindfulness,
compassion, kindness and critical inquiry through the prism of identity
and global issues;
- a generative space consisting of
experts panels and TAGe plenary for youth and experts to share and
critically engage with the concept of peace through kindness and
nonviolence;
- a platform to celebrate inspiring
acts of kindness that are effecting change in the world and action
programming for youth agency
CONFERENCE OUTPUT:
- New Delhi Youth Declaration on
Kindness for the Sustainable Development Goals
- 20, 000 transformative acts of
kindness
- 4 short and 1 main TAGe briefs
- 100 trained youth leaders
FINANCIAL SUPPORT:
This is a fully
funded international conference in India. All the expenses will be covered for
the selected participants.
- A limited number of applicants
will receive travel sponsorship, with special preference given to
applications from developing countries.
- UNESCO MGIEP will provide Roundtrip
Air Tickets between the participants nearest airport and New Delhi,
India
- Accommodation and
Meals. Accommodation and meals will be provided to all selected
participants.
- Please note that participants are
responsible for their domestic transportation, visa application, and
traveler’s insurance.
- If you can cover your roundtrip
airfares, please check the box in the application form.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
- Are you a youth leader between 18
to 35 years?
- Do you have a remarkable
transformative story of an Act of Kindness contributing to global
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
- Do you wish to contribute to the
global conversation on youth and the SDGs?
- Do you wish to be selected for a
high-level panel dialogue with senior leaders and policymakers?
- Do you wish to be selected to be
part of an international cohort for training on social and emotional
learning?
HOW
TO APPLY THE UNESCO WORLD YOUTH CONFERENCE IN INDIA?
You will need to
share the following information as part of the application process, so please
keep at hand:
- Your contact details and personal
information
- A 3-minute video explaining why
we should choose you! Please upload this as a private video to
YouTube and share the private link with us in the application form - APPLY for the Conference
- Successful and unsuccessful
applicants will be informed of the selection results via email in first
week of July 2019
SELECTION
CRITERIA:
- Age: 18 to 35 years as on August
1, 2016
- Kindness story: a powerful kindness story
on SDGs
- Area of expertise: working on SDGs, especially
SDG 4.7, education, social and emotional learning, ESD, GCED, peace
education, non-violence, youth engagement, policy influence, peace and
conflict resolution, and related fields and be able to show evidence of
achievements
- Demonstrate: prior experience of
participating in policy engagement, social action projects, innovative
education projects, and campaigns, and interest in peacebuilding,
nonviolence, and SDGs, either in youth, community or workplace settings.
- Active: must be actively/currently
involved in the ‘area of profession/expertise
- Available: must be available for
active and engaging online discussion starting June 10, 2019, and to do an
online course on SEL from July 10, 2019
- Influential: Highly influential and able
to mobilize grassroots youth and community stakeholders in hundreds for
acts of kindness. The selection to be part of the 100, and most
importantly, the high-level panel speakers will be on the basis of how
much an applicant has mobilized fellow youth in his or her community
- Diversity: Geographic, gender, age,
and sector diversity will be considered
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
- The Last
Date to Apply for the UNESCO World Youth Conference 2019in India is June 30, 2019.
APPLY NOW: https://unesco-mgiep.typeform.com/to/mGIvKH
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