The Finnish NGDO platform to the EU, member of the Anna Lindh Network in Finland, has launched its call for participants, experts and facilitators for the next Development Education Summer School (DESS) which will take place in Petäys (Finland) from 12 to 18 June 2011.

During the Summer School, which will be focusing on "Quality and Impact in Development Education", around 80 participants will be assisted by facilitators and experts on the theme, learning and sharing through more theoretical plenary sessions, practice-orientated working group sessions and other activities.

One of the objectives of the Summer School is to discover, to use and to create concrete methodologies, best practices and tools to improve the quality of Development Education work and impact assessment in NGOs. The DESS will also include a strong Multi-stakeholder aspect with a high-level conference held in Helsinki for the wider public on 16 June 2011.

The full description of the one-week learning process including the 2011 activities and methodology is available on the DEEEP (Developing Europeans' Engagement for the Eradication of Global Poverty) website:
http://www.deeep.org/summerschool2011.html

How to apply?

1) Participants

NGO practitioners with experience both in Development Education or Awareness Raising (DEAR) and the field of quality and impact (or evaluation of activities, projects or programmes) are especially encouraged to apply. Please fill in the application form available at the DEEEP website and send it back to your national platform (if EU applicant, in Finland the national platform is Kehys, riikka.suhonen@kehys.fi), or if you are coming from economically less developed country (ELDC), directly to the DEEEP Coordinator Cinthia Alaerts (c.alaerts@deeep.org) and the Summer School Coordinator Riikka Suhonen (riikka.suhonen@kehys.fi).

 The deadline for applications is 17 January 2011.

The participants from EU countries pay a participation fee based on the GDP of different countries, ranging from 160 to 520 euros. Travel costs will be reimbursed up to 400 euros. Participants from EU candidate countries or potential candidate countries pay a fee of 150 euros, and those from ELDC countries 30-80 euros per participant.  The travel costs for ELDC participants are taken care of by the summer school organisers.

2) Expert and facilitators

Read carefully the summer school presentation and the call for facilitators/expert on the DEEEP website (http://www.deeep.org/summerschool2011.html) and if you feel you could be a potential facilitator for the DESS working groups or an expert for the theoretical sessions, send your application and CV to Riikka Suhonen (riikka.suhonen@kehys.fi) and Cinthia Alaerts (c.alaerts@deeep.org).

The deadline for applications is 17 January 2011.
 

For further inquiries, please contact the DESS coordinator Ms. Riikka Suhonen, riikka.suhonen@kehys.fi