The Robert Schuman Institute and the Eduardo Frei Foundation have a longstanding reputation on educating the new wave of political elite in the south eastern and eastern European countries. Our cooperation project “Young Leaders” has a tradition dating back to the 1990’s. We investigate into in young politicians committed to democracy and value based politics with a centre-right approach – as represented by the European People’s Party family.
A leader and a statesman must have broad horizons Our aim is to provide theoretical and practical knowledge on political, social, economic and security challenges and current developments in Europe.
Follow our social media sites or check the wepage where we publish our open calls regularly. Check also the following questions if you are eligible to participate. If the answer is YES to all of them, then you are entitled to apply.
“We learned a lot about sustainable future for our countries and tried to create immediately the prototypes of action plans, and also for me it was really interesting to learn more about NGOs and Child and Women protection”
”we talked a lot about important information for my future career such as youth unemployment, social problems of our national communities”
”I came here to learn more about politics, economy, international affairs and how the world is moving but actually what I learned here and I wasn’t expected is that Western Balkans, EaP, Middle Eastern Countries and Africa, we have quite a lot of similarities and we share same problems”