Inclusive Leadership and Youth Work in the Eastern Partnership, 2024-2025

The Swedish Institute Academy for Young Professionals (SAYP) is a training programme that strengthens the participants’ ability to drive and implement change work within their respective organizations. The training programme includes webinars, interactive lectures, case studies, coaching and workshops to deepen and practice your knowledge in inclusive youth work and leadership. SAYP aims to provide young professionals the opportunity to contribute to development and change in their regions. As a SAYP participant, you will be able to expand your own contact networks and share ideas, experiences and challenges with other like-minded professionals. 

This SAYP programme is a collaboration between the Swedish Institute (SI) and Fryshuset Foundation in partnership with Armenian Progressive Youth (APY), responsible for developing and organising training modules. The modules rely on a mix of modern teaching methods with emphasis on interactivity, collaboration and problem-based learning.

Inclusive Leadership and Youth Work in the Eastern Partnership, 2024-2025

In 2024-2025, Fryshuset in partnership with APY offers the following SAYP programme: Inclusive Leadership and Youth Work in the Eastern Partnership. The programme is designed to strenghten the capacity of civil society organisations in the Eastern Partnership countries to develop and implement innovative solutions to youth inclusion. In a rapidly changing world, it is important to recognise changing forms of youth engagement and reasons that drive youth to participate.

The programme targets young professionals and organizations, working with and for youth, and strengthens their ability to facilitate processes that support youth, by:

• Working with inclusive and diversity-sensitive methods;
• Providing participants with tools to facilitate youth participation in diverse settings and practices;
• Strengthening participants to identify and reduce obstacles to youth participation;
• Developing young people’s skills and competence to participate.
• Creating synergies between stakeholders to ensure that youth have access to resources and diverse arenas of participation.

Who can apply?

The programme welcomes young professionals between 25-40 years old from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus*, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Sweden, and Ukraine:

• From civil society: youth workers, leaders of youth organizations and youth field experts specialized on youth work and/or youth inclusion.
• From public sector: public servants and youth policy makers.

Programme details

Pre-module (online): 24-25 September, 2024
On-site training module in Stockholm, Sweden: 13-19 October, 2024
Online training modules: December 2024- February 2025
Workshops in Yerevan, Armenia: 1-4 April, 2025 (some of the workshops will be hybrid, gathering stakeholders online and on-site)

*Due to the current situation in Belarus, as of 1 October 2020, we will not provide financial support to Belarusian state employees for on-site activities within SAYP. As a consequence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Belarus’ active cooperation in it, it is either no longer possible for the state employees from Belarus to participate in the on-line activities within SAYP.