CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST for Membership in the Environment Legal Advocacy Network for South Eastern Europe under the project Environmental Legal Advocacy/Advisory Centers in South Eastern Europe
If you are an environmental lawyer who wants to work in the public interest to help solve environmental problems through use of legal tools, REC may be able to help you. REC is currently identifying environmental lawyers in the countries of South Eastern Europe for possible training and support under the project Environmental Legal Advocacy/Advisory Centers in South Eastern Europe, financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Netherlands.

Selected lawyers will be included in a regional training network (Environmental Advocacy Network for South Eastern Europe - EANSEE) and will be given the opportunity to receive different forms of financial support (small grants for carrying on environmental legal advocacy/advisory services, fellowship awards for participation in environmental law related events etc.)

The membership of the network is opened to interested legal entities/individuals from the following countries/entities: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo/a (territory under interim UN administration), FYR Macedonia, Romania and Serbia and Montenegro.

The criteria for selection of new members of EANSEE are:
1.. the applicant is an independent environmental lawyer or non-governmental environmental organisation (NGO) willing to work in the public interest,
2.. the applicant shows a strong interest and commitment to establishing an environmental legal advocacy/advisory centre and/or performing environmental legal advocacy/advisory type services, and
3.. the applicant possesses the necessary legal qualifications and experience to provide legal advocacy/advisory activities.

Please send by 15 May 2003 statement of motivation and curriculum vitae focusing on legal qualifications and experience and including: name, address, phone/fax, e-mail/webpage to the e-mail address: EANSEE-applications@rec.org. English proficiency is required.