Motto: "How to be a better leader in government and local administration"


LEADERS Romania is a non-governmental organisation that develops programs in the field of Leadership. Our target is represented by young, capable, dynamic and motivated people that develop their activities civil society, governance and public administration, business and media.
It is our pleasure to announce that between 25-29 of august 2003 we will organise a program that targets the young leaders in the government and local administration: "Leadership Program For Young Government Leaders", developed in partenership with British Council and Ministry of Public Administration and Internal Affairs.
This program is directed to the young leaders active in the administrative field, in Romania and the South Eastern European countries. In government, as well as in the local administration, there are capable young people with a real potential and the skills to create an efficient administrative system. We encourage the exchange of information and developments practice of public administration.
The purpose of the summer school is to create the framework for the development of a ommunity of young government and local public administration leaders in Romania and in the South Eastern European Countries, to connect it with similar international organizations and facilitate the cooperation with these organizations and the cooperation through exchanges of knowledge, best practices and experiences.

The target audience is represented, as already mentioned, by young, capable, dynamic and motivated people from various positions in the central and local administration. The participant countries are, beside Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Moldova, Greek,Turkey, Macedonia, Ukraine, Poland and Czech Republic.

The Young Government Leaders Summer School will focus on five training areas:
- government leadership
- organisational management
- project management
- e-government
- time management and meetings management.

In the last day of the Summer School we will organise a special session where different international organisations and institutions will present their own training and assistance programs for the public administration sector reform. The organisations and institutions invited are: The British Council, The European Comission , The GRASP Program (USAID), Freedom House, United Nations Tessaloniki Center (UNTC), National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), International Republic Institute (IRI), Peacecorps, United Nations Development Program (UNDP).


Also, personalities from the political and administrative sector in Romania were invited to attend, like Mr. Mircea Geoana, Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Marius Profiroiu, State Secretary ? Ministry of Public Administration and Internal Affairs, Mr. Florin Lupescu, State Counselor, International Relations Department ? Presidential Administration, Mr. Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, Regional Envoy, Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, Mr. Stephan Roman, Regional Director, British Council and personalities from the local administration in Sibiu. The guest will share their experience with the participants in a special session, analysing the role of the young leaders in the reform of the public administration.

The traveling costs will be covered by the participants, and the rest of the costs will be covered by the organizers.

If your are is between 20-35 years old, if you have good english skills and if you have a public administration position you are invited to participate to this Summer School. Please fill in the attached form and send it to us together with your CV before 24 july to the following adresses: ovidiu.bujorean@leaders.ro

For more information please call (+40) 21 310 02 49; (+40) 721 097 287 or (+40) 723 250 355