The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC)

Training for Young Environmental Leaders

January 12 - February 7, 2004, Hungary and Italy Application deadline: November 1st, 2003

The Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) in co-operation with the Italian NGO L'Umana DiMora organizes a series of trainings for young environmental leaders, to be held in Hungary and Italy in 2004.

The training sessions consist of three weeks of theoretical training in a multicultural setting at the REC's head office in Szentendre, Hungary, and a one-week study tour in Italy, focusing on management skills, the latest environmental methods (e.g. information technologies and market-based solutions) and the transfer of these skills to peers.

Participants from different backgrounds throughout Central and Eastern Europe are eligible for the program. They should be between 20 and 30 years old, show a strong commitment to the environment in the CEE region, work in an environmental NGO, with citizenship of one of the participating countries, and speak and write English well.

For the 2004 sessions, the REC invites participants from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, FYRO Macedonia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Serbia and Montenegro.

The REC will cover all costs related to travel, food, training fees and accommodation for participants from the countries listed above.

http://www.rec.org
acraciun@rec.org (Adriana Craciun)