Deadline:
July 31, 2024
Program Starts: October 01, 2024
Program Ends: February 28, 2025
Location(s)
Belgium France Luxembourg
Brussels, Strasbourg, Luxembourg
Overview
At the European Leadership Programme we shape the leaders of tomorrow.
The European Leadership Programme is a five month long formation where the Fellows receive leadership training and support in their vocation discernment during their time in Brussels. The Fellows live and work in the heart of Europe, they help marginalized communities, receive coaching and professional mentoring. There is a weekly opportunity to meet current and former leaders from the EU ecosystem to discuss testimonies of their career and ethical challenges.
Details
We believe that Europe will grow into an ever-stronger union of hearts and minds. This will be accomplished in part through the professional training of committed Europeans to guide our European society with political virtue and Christian principles.
Designed as a training programme on EQF-level 7, continuing from Bachelor programmes on level 6, the ELP is interdisciplinary, as contributions from fields of political science, European studies, economics, law and other social sciences and humanities converge in it.
“We offer committed young Europeans a fellowship experience of professional training that will help them learn to guide our society with political virtue and Christian principles,” Peter Rožič SJ, Director of JESC, comments on the programme.
The activities consist of five interrelated segments:
- immersion in the administrative and political life of E.U. institutions, with the opportunity to meet with political leaders in Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg and beyond;
- participation in modules and workshops presented by high profile academics and practitioners in order to develop personal leadership skills and stimulate reflection and discussion;
- a voluntary experience of living in and serving a marginalised community;
- spiritual guidance and discernment training;
- living and enjoying a community of friends that is located in the heart of Brussels.
The goal of ELP is to contribute to the formation of spirituality and to build on own calling, this way gaining tools for managing the life of a leader.
Thanks to retreats, on-going formation, spiritual direction, sharing of experiences in groups and community life, those chosen will enhance their self-knowledge so as to understand others in a deeper way.
An essential element of ELP is the experience of living together under one roof as a community. This experience will focus on building character through community life and common policies, such as spiritual training, environmental vigilance and international hospitality.
“The Programme’s final aim is no less than to help reform the spiritual, social and political life in Europe, reorienting it towards an ever-greater quest for the common good” says Fr. Martin Maier SJ, JESC’s Secretary for European Affairs.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Eligibility
- Be aged 18 or over
- Be based in Brussels to enroll in the Programme
- Hold a university level diploma to a Master’s Degree level
- Present an English proficiency level (C1 or equivalent) or proof of studies in English
- We advise you to be enrolled in a traineeship at any organization in the Brussels bubble, but we also consider your application if you currently have no job yet, or if you pursue a post-graduate study such as PhD. This means ELP has lifted the mandatory traineeship element as a condition of application. However, you have to commit to stay in the programme for the five month period, with or without a job.
After the confirmation of the enrolment, the ELP office will provide the applicants information about our accommodations, community living, bureaucratic requirements, and all the services offered to ELP fellows.
Applicants must be aware of the fact that at least 80% attendance to teaching activities is required. Secretary of ELP can allow further absence in special circumstances to be discussed on an individual basis. Failure to meet this requirement will lead to exclusion from the ELP Programme and services offered by the Programme.
Dates
Deadline: July 31, 2024
Program starts:
October 01, 2024
Program ends:
February 28, 2025
Program Starts: October 01, 2024
Program Ends: February 28, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
The total cost of the programme is on average 13.500€ per fellow. The ELP organisation will be able to secure approximately 80% of the funding through the JESC partners and donors.
You will have to pay up to maximum 500€ per month, totalling about 2.700€ per season.
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