Deadline: 15 June 2016
CFI the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development’s media cooperation agency is currently inviting applications for its SafirLab Project with an aim to create a sustainable dialogue with the youth, aged between 20 and 30 years, who are committed to the issues of citizenship, local governance and the media. Designed as a breeding ground for projects, it supports these young people in their journey to realize their professional or associative project by offering them mentoring and personalized tools and methods. SafirLab also strives to enable the emergence of a network based on common values and shared experience.
SafirLab is a program intended to support the civil society engaged in the issues of citizenship, local governance and the media. The projects of the participants in SafirLab are distinguished by their ability to bring social changes to communities.
Priority Areas
The projects should include suggestions about social innovation and meet, fully or partly, the following criteria:
- Meeting a social or societal need
- Involvement of the relevant stakeholders
- Collective adoption of the values
- Strong links with the countries
- Innovation through the economic model
Eligibility Criteria
- Project beneficiaries are young people aged between 20 and 30.
- The 2016 edition of this program will bring together a maximum of 25 participants coming from these 9 countries (mentioned below).
Key Dates
- Closing the online application platform: Wednesday June 15, 2016
- Contacting the shortlisted applicants: Starting June 20
- Selection interviews (via video conference): Starting June 20
- Publication of the final list of participants in SafirLab 2016 (25 participants from the 9 above-mentioned countries): Monday July 18
- SafirLab Program in Paris: from October 26 till November 6, 2016
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Countries:
Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestinian Territories, Tunisia and Yemen.
For more information, please visit 2016 SafirLab Project.