(offre en anglais) The International Development Youth Forum(IDYF) lance un appel à participation pour son conférence annuelle Retour vers les opportunités

 Build a sustainable network among youth who are interested in International Development

• We build continuous network which participants can utilize in their future by inviting youth from all over the world who are interested in international development.
• We strengthen the network of participants, by inviting more participants to the forum in the future.
• We develop network among participants who attend the forum in different year by organizing reunion of alumni.

Provide opportunities for participants to embrace diversified values and acquire extensive knowledge.

• We provide opportunity to broaden knowledge or way of thinking through lectures or fieldwork according to the theme of the forum.
• We provide opportunity to deepen one’s value through discussion in which participants meet with different value of others who have different backgrounds.

• We make effort to produce outcomes which have value to society, not merely satisfy participants.
• We provide opportunity to know what is needed to change society for the first step of participants’ career.

• Building sustainable networks of future leaders in the field of International Development.
• Providing a lot of profound knowledge by inviting professionals from various fields such as Development Studies.
• Creating outcome that produces new change to society.

Participation Fees /Scholarship :

If you are selected to participate in IDYF 2017, you will be required to pay 25,000 JPY, which covers your accommodation, meals, and transportation fees during the forum (March 12th to 19th 2017).

• It doesn’t include transportation fees from the airport to the venue, accommodation fee before and after the program, or insurance.
• Optional tour on 19th is not covered.
• Payment details will be announced after the results of the selection.

Scholarship Applications: IDYF 2017 has two separate application types, one for self-funded candidates, and another for scholarship candidates. 

Scholarships will be given to only one to three applicants with financial difficulties, which will cover:

• Flight tickets
• Participation fee

Applicants who wish to apply for the scholarship must submit the application form for scholarship applicants, not the one for the self-funded applicants. Those who passed the document screening will be invited to Skype interview.

Successful applicants will be notified of their results on the website by December 18th.