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Our young leadership programmes use exciting ideas and experiences from the UK to help young people all over the world learn about themselves and others. We aim to get the best out of young people, creating opportunities for them to explore different values and cultures and become leaders and active citizens of the future. Our networking initiatives open doors to global networks of young professionals and offer exciting professional development opportunities.
This international leadership training programme responds to issues surrounding globalisation and the challenges posed in diverse societies. Young leaders from Israel and wider Europe will be trained by experienced facilitators to develop new ways of dealing with intercultural understanding. This programme offers young Israeli leaders a unique opportunity to participate in a leadership programme with an international angle, which can be developed in the future.
The Network Effect is a British Council initiative that brings together young professionals, aged between 25 and 35, to discuss key issues facing their societies and to develop the networks and leadership skills needed to tackle these challenges. Using a variety of methods, the British Council wants to sustain a network of future European leaders committed to making a difference.
Participants come from all over Europe and include media professionals, those involved in think-tanks, project managers, youth party leaders, politicians, government civil servants, researchers and lawyers working in a national context at the local, regional, or national level in Europe. Network Effect forums are held approximately every four months and hosted by different British Council offices in Europe.
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Jad Kheir, 23, of Western Galilee is one of seven young social activists – representing Turkey, Israel, India, Kenya, Australia, the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe – who has been chosen to participate in the Interdependence Day Summit September 10-12 in Istanbul at Koç University at the invitation of internationally renowned political theorist and President of CivWorld, Benjamin Barber. The 7– all members of the British Council’s Global Changemakers network – will give their recommendations to the assembled leaders on how best to tackle key global issues including climate change, poverty, social unrest, and human rights. Alongside other youth delegates, they will serve as the youngest Interdependence Day participants ever.
The Global Changemakers are a select group of youth (between the ages of 16 and 25) who have demonstrated a significant track record of achievement in their local communities through social entrepreneurship, community activism, and voluntary work. The youth are part of a global network where they share knowledge, ideas and best practices, and where they work individually and together on projects that directly impact the lives of those in their local communities. In addition, each year, a select group of Global Changemakers is chosen to participate in high level political and economic events - to act as advocates and to raise decision-makers’ awareness of key issues on the global agenda.
Founded at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2007, Global Changemakers have partnered with and participated in World Economic Forum events (in Davos, Sharm el Sheikh, and Cape Town), as well as the Clinton Global Initiative, Global Humanitarian Forum, and G20. Individual supporters include HMQ Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, President Bill Clinton, and the actress Emma Thompson. The Rt Honourable Gordon Brown serves as Patron of Global Changemakers.
Jad Kheir, is a fifth year medical student at the Technion University in Haifa, apart from attending the Interdependence Summit in Istanbul, Jad also joined Shimrit Yamin, a Law and Business administration student at the IDC College in Herziliya,at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, that was held 15-17 May, at the Dead Sea. Kheir and Yamin are part of a group of twenty young activists - all members of the British Council’s Global Changemakers network. The youth representatives met with the region’s most influential business and political leaders and gave a grass-roots perspective to the Forum’s proceedings.
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For further information about leadership programmes please contact society@britishcouncil.org.il.
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