About
The University on Youth and Development
The University on Youth and Development is a space for debate, training, exchange of experiences and affirmative action concerning Global Youth Cooperation. Global Youth Cooperation is a concept that has emerged from within the youth movement worldwide during the decade of nineties. It is young people and youth organisations collective response to the challenges of globalisation. The North-South Centre is recognised by its partners in the youth movement as having a clear and particular role in coordinating efforts for effective training and in creating a framework to enhance the role of youth in North-South Cooperation and in Global Youth work. This University, with its partnership between intergovernmental, governmental, civil society and local and regional representatives, (reflecting the quadrilogue) and its diverse programme, provides a key space in performing that role.
10th Edition
Celebrating Global Youth Work
CEULAJ, Mollina (Spain) 13 – 20 September 2009
The University on Youth and Development is an activity jointly organised by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe, the Spanish Government (INJUVE), the European Youth Forum (YFJ), the Spanish Youth Council (CJE) and other international youth organisations. More about the University
Since its first edition in 2000, the University takes place once a year bringing together representatives of youth organisations and youth movements from all over the world who gather in the CEULAJ (Euro-Latin-American Youth Centre) to discuss, train and be trained as well as to take political action around the main issues on the global agenda.
In 2009 the University on Youth and Development will be gathering for the 10th time and therefore renewed hopes and aspirations, objectives and challenges are launched to the partners to reinforce this as the space and home of Global Youth Work and of the Global Youth Movement.
The University on Youth and Development is composed of various activities (Seminars, Training Courses, Workshops) organised by more than 10 partners and will gather close to 300 young people from all over the world.
Main Goals
- To create a political space where youth can act upon and acknowledge the role they play in Global Development.
- To initiate and encourage debate aimed at defining the role youth play in elaborating development policies and in co-operation for development initiatives.
- To facilitate a process aimed at defining and implementing projects within the field of youth.
Date and length of the Activities
The University is been held from the 13th to 20th September 2009.
The main arrival day for participants to the University is the 13th of September and the Departure day is the 20th. Activities are therefore foreseen to have the length of 6 days starting on the 14th and closing on the 19th of September.
Joint Theme 2009
In 2009 the University on Youth and Development is held for the 10th time. It is therefore, a symbolic and meaningful occasion to reflect and celebrate Global Youth Work and the Global Youth Movement, an occasion for the aassessment of achievements and for the collective response to the challenges ahead.
The Joint programme but also the training activities, seminars and discussions that partners will bring to the university are encouraged to be a contribution to this debate.
Joint Programme and Evening activities:
To complement the different activities taking place simultaneously during the week, the 10th UYD offers an informal social space of amazing possibilities to share, give, receive, transform, discover, create and re-create … our common humanity so rich in Diversity! We are all invited to make the 10th UYD a celebration of global youth energy, joy, creativity and social innovation!
The joint programme provides opportunities for participants to share cultural expressions and propose different activities inviting all of us to travel during the week around the globe.
The Joint Programme team will support the daily implementation of participants’ proposals to live and explore the potential of been together in this resourceful youth centre.
The Global Café – The central joint meeting space where a number of events will take place during the week, most of them proposed by participants. There you can find program information, fair trade products like coffee, tea and biscuits, music, video projection possibilities, plastic arts space for your exploration, musical workshops, live music, daily thematic nights like the “30 minutes global talks”, followed by the different proposals put forward by You (for instance music, dances, theatre, story telling, etc). The young musicians from Ethno International Caravan (Jeneusse Musical Internatioal) coming from different parts of the world will offer musical workshops between and some musical performances.
The Global Games – Everyday in the indoor sports pavilion of CEULAJ, with the support of the joint programme team, you can share with other participants your traditional games from the region in focus.
The Joint Progamme team is composed of experienced young facilitators of theatre, music, plastic arts, sports and games, dances and other sorts of cultural expressions, ready to help you in putting in action your ideas and proposals for the joint social programme – in the spirit of Ubuntu, an African word for the feeling that “I am because we are” – the University is Us! Lets share and discover each other.
Unicology: Over the last years the partners of the University on Youth and Development have developed and encouraged inspirational practices in order to build a socially and environmentally sustainable activity. This is also expected in the 2009 UYD (eg: non-paper policy, low energy consumption, using recycled and recycling materials, using fair trade goods etc). The Five pillars of the Unicology approach:
Reflect on our consumption habits; Refuse products that cause damage to the environment or our health; Reduce the garbish production; Re-use whenever it is possible; Recycle – to transform into a new product.