SI Summer Academy for Young Professionals (Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Partnership Countries)

Deadline: 11 March 2020

Are you a young professional in the selected regions and want to deepen your knowledge about modern governance? This is the programme for you.

The SI Summer Academy for Young Professionals (SAYP) is a training programme developed to build new networks, knowledge and practices for increased transparency, efficiency and resilience in public administration.

The programme also aims to strengthen you and your individual capabilities to meet the requirements of a modern governance structure. As a participant of SAYP, you will be able to expand your own contact networks and share ideas, experiences and challenges with other like-minded professionals.

SAYP is a collaboration between Swedish institute and Swedish universities.

Topics

The specific topics of the SAYP modules may vary from year to year. Topics this year are:

Perspectives on Multi-level Governance, Decentralisation & Human Rights;
Migration and Integration in the Eastern Partnership and the Baltic Sea Region;
Sustainable Public Management;
Sustainable e-Government for Resilient and Innovative Democratic public administration (SeGRID);
Transnational Public Administration and Organizing.

Benefits

Opportunity to develop your professional skills;
Tools to apply in your own organisations and local contexts;
Knowledge within sustainable modern governance;
Experience of cross-sectorial work environment;
Personal and professional network;
Lifelong membership in the SI Alumni Network;
Exclusive access to Peer Shadowing and other tools for continued learning.

What’s Included

Preparatory meetings
- The first part of the programme takes place in the participants’ home countries in the form of preparatory meetings/webinars and/or reading of material provided by the thematic module organisers.
Thematic module
- This is followed by an intense thematic two-weeks-module during the period of May – October. The thematic module is held in Sweden or in one of the programme countries.

Eligibility Criteria

Citizen of and currently working in one of the selected countries;
Have good command of English language;
Have a relevant higher education (at least three years);
35 years or younger (born 1985- );
Employed in one of the following groups:
- Policymakers (politicians, government officials, employees of political parties);
- Public servants (non-political civil servants working at government agencies);
- Civil society workers (CSO/NGO employees).

Eligible Countries: Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Sweden and Ukraine.

How to Apply

Your application must contain the following documents: