500 youth delegates from 90 countries and more than a 1.000 youth participants will gather with thought leaders from a range of cultural backgrounds and experience representing government, politic, science and culture, international organizations, media, civil society and private sector. Young participants will be selected among those that will have posted their candidature on this website. Organization will cover costs for travel, hospitality and food only to delegates.
The Meeting will revolve around three keynote lectures, one for each of the meeting days and about 15 thematic workshops. The lectures will address three main topics for the Meeting: “Perspectives and challenges for democracy in a world of global cities”, “Environmental sustainability as precondition for human development” and “The new frontier for social and economic development after the global finance crisis”. The workshops will focus on global issues for development and the potential of tackling them at local level.
APPLICATIONS DUE: December 16, 2009 at midnight.
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Here's another world youth meeting going on in 2010:
http://www.oneyoungworld.com/
The Facebook contest that is being used to select part of the delegates ends on December 31, 2009.
I'll be attending both OYW and the meeting in Italy, by the way, so feel free to get in touch.
:-)
Ciao,
Nicolò
P.S. I also found out about this one, recently:
http://www.youth2010.org/
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