Leadership Summer School

Grow skills to lead self and others! Leadership training & coaching

LSS 2019 Organizing Committee

The Local BEST Group of Bucharest in its core focuses on people understanding and respecting different cultures and societies. The environment of empowered diversity supports people in applying their full potential and acting responsibly.

BEST helps students to achieve an international mindset, to reach a better understanding of cultures and societies and to develop the capacity to work in culturally diverse environments. BEST creates opportunities for personal development of students and supports them in reaching their full potential.

BEST Bucharest counts over 60 volunteers, engaged in key-activities of the organization. Due to their contribution, we can ensure our visibility and involvement in 15 engineering faculties, over 26,000 UPB students, out of which 13,000 dwelling in the Regie and Leu campuses, but also over 5,000 new students annually.

LBG Bucharest

BEST Bucharest quite recently, from 9th to 13th of May, organized the regional tier of the engineering competition EBEC Romania & Republic of Moldova, a time-honored and specific BEST event. The 8th edition of the competition, took place in Bucharest and gathered the winners of the local EBEC rounds held in Brașov, Bucharest, Iași, Cluj-Napoca and Chișinău.

As LSS 2019 Organizing Committee, BEST Bucharest, will act as a logistical team for all components to host LSS participants as smoothly as possible.


LSS 2019 Supervisory Board

The LSS 2019 Supervisory Board is composed by:

Lyda Michopoulou, Herve Tunga, Karen Caramelo Alves, Marina Ioana Marcu, Milda Latakaite and Kristina Mozūraitytė coming from Belgium, Greece, Lithuania, Spain.

We are former and current members of the following NGOs: AEGEE, EFPSA, BEST, ZeroGeneration, EGEA.

LSS 2019 Supervisory Board

We, the LSS 2019 Supervisory Board members, are responsible for the Coordination of LSS, Communication towards Participants, Trainers, Externals, the PR strategy of LSS and organization of LSS2019 in Bucharest, Romania.

Call for LSS 2019 Organising Committee

Would you like to take part in an innovative Leadership Training event?
Are you keen to develop your personal and professional skills whilst empowering youth leaders from over 30 European and international organizations?
Are you enthusiastic, flexible, friendly and a good motivator?

…then Leadership Summer School is the event for YOU!
Every year in July, we gather 60 to 80 students, young graduates and young professionals aged 18 to 35, and 16 trainers from all paths of life and fields of studies, and from all over the globe, in one venue, with one aim… to develop and inspire the leaders of tomorrow, today. For the past years LSS had led the way in multi-disciplinary student leadership events!


LSS is made possible by the collaboration of around 20+ different student organizations, with central coordination and support from Zero Generation.  Every year we look for ways to develop and improve this exciting event and this year should prove to be another awesome experience.

For the next edition, we are looking for a motivated and proficient Organizing Committee in an exciting country; a team that will be able to make this event as successful as the previous ones and enhance participants experience.

Interested? 
Apply to host LSS 2019… and don’t just keep it for yourself! 
Partner up with other NGOs! Collaboration is one of the core elements of LSS, we are looking for different NGOs cooperating to make LSS2019 a shared success on a local level.
Here’s what we are expecting from you, the Organizing Committee, to be able to provide:

  • food and accommodation for about 100 people (60 participants / 16 trainers / organizers) for minimum 9 nights (+ 4 extra nights for trainers)
  • all the necessary training materials (post-its, markers, paper, flip charts,…)
  • 4 training rooms, plus 1 working room for Trainers and 1 for OC event’s logistics
  • creative social/evening program
  • Period 8-31 July 2019
  • support LSS Supervisory Board in writing grants and raising funds from local cooperation with companies
  • open-mindedness and a sense for adventure in implementing ideas
  • the OC President will be invited to join Supervisory Board and be part of LSS2019 decision making process

Please check the link and download a copy of the “Organizing Committee 2019 application form”; document including some important information about the application form to fill in and send it back to us at contact@leadershipsummerschool.org and the criteria that will be used to select LSS 2019 OC.

For any questions you would have about this great event, just write an email to contact@leadershipsummerschool.org