Leadership Summer School

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

Call for LSS 2015 Organising Committee

Location of LSS 2015Would you like to take part in an innovative Leadership defining event?

Are you keen to develop your personal & professional skills whilst empowering youth leaders from over 20 European and international organisations? 
Are you enthusiastic, flexible, friendly and a good motivator? 
 
… Then Leadership Summer School is the event for YOU!  

In July each year, we gather 60 to 100 students, young graduates and/or professionals aged 18 to 35, and 15 trainers from all development 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 organisations, 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.  

You can find more information and a LSS Testimonials on the LSS webpage.

For the next edition, we are looking for a motivated and proficient Organising 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 2015… 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 LSS 2015 shared success on a local level.

Here’s what we are expecting from you, the Organising Committee, to be able to provide:
  • food and accommodation for about 100 people (70 participants / 15 trainers / organisers) for minimum 9 nights (+ 4 extra nights for trainers)
  • all the necessary training materials (post-its, markers, paper, flipcharts,…)
  • 4 training rooms, plus 1 working room for Trainers and 1 for OC event’s logistics
  • creative social/evening program
  • Period 8-31 July 2015
  • support LSS Supervisory Board in writing grants and raising funds from local cooperation with companies 
  • the OC President will be invited to join Supervisory Board and be part of LSS2015 decision making process
  • open-mindedness and a sense for adventure in implementing ideas

Please check the link and download a copy of the “Organising Committee 2015 application form”; document including some important information about the application form to fill in and send it back to us (contact@leadershipsummerschool.org) and the criteria that will be used to select LSS 2015 OC.  

 

Deadline to apply is 15th December 2014 23h CET!

For ANY questions you would have about this great event, just write an E-Mail to contact@leadershipsummerschool.org.

 

We are looking forward to hearing from you!


What would you add to LSS history?

Become effective data storyteller

meet infrogram

Nika Aleksejeva from Infogr.am – popular infographics creator – accepted to be one of the guest speakers at LSS this year to share effective online data storytelling practice.

Infographics proved to be one of the most effective way to communicate complex data driven stories. Infogr.am enables anyone to create beautiful and interactive infographic in no time.  Here is the infographic illustrating the citizenship of LSS Graduates since 2008.

“It’s easy to create infographic with Infogr.am. It’s harder to create a good one. We are taking the next step to help our community tell complex data driven ideas in effectively,” tells Nika.

The data storytelling workshop shares basic guidelines on how to create viral stories and participants will practice how to become effective data storyteller.

About Infogr.am

Infogr.am is world simplest infographics creator. It’s widely used for effective business communication and classroom teaching. Major online media such as Huffington Post, The Verge, Al Jazeera and many others are one of the early service adapters. The content created by users was seen by more than 8,5 million unique visitors last month.

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About Nika Aleksejeva

Nika-Aleksejeva-lss2014Nika is a passionate data storyteller from Infogr.am. She is constantly working on projects which connect and inspire great personalities with potential to change things for good.

Nika has been a journalist since high school. Most recently her work involved writing on business topics, making data driven stories about energetics, global economy trends and education.

Seeing the future in digital journalism she continues to work and share the knowledge which helps to develop new communication forms.

LSS2014 Open Call for Trainers

It is our great pleasure to announce that we are moving forward towards Leadership Summer School’s 7th edition!

As you probably already know, this year the event is going to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, between the 16th and 25th of July 2014. The “LSS 2014” trainers are expected to be available from the 13th to the 26th of July. We believe that together with common efforts we will make this event more awesome than ever!

Leadership Summer School wouldn’t be able to fulfil its mission without our great LSS Trainers, without your energy, creativity and motivation! We invite you to share with us your vision, passion and inspiration in order to prepare the best LSS ever!
Join our trainers’ team and be among the 10 chosen ones that will be leading 60 young leaders from all over the world towards a 10-day event and over 50 hours of scheduled training and other facilitated activities!

As future LSS Trainer, we expect from you to:
– arrive by 13/07/2014, to have 3 full working days, and be able to stay 1 day after (26/07/2014) which makes 14 days in total;
– be available before the event to design training sessions (mainly virtual team work);
– be available after the event to provide support to LSS participants (Handouts, Reporting, Follow-up) (mainly virtually);
– be ready to support all actors of LSS 2014 during the event.

If you want to be part of the project, be part of developing tomorrow’s great leaders, then fill in the LSS 2014 Trainers application form:
Deadline for applications is the 21st of March 23:59 CET! We will contact you in person after the application period.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to visit the contact page or reach out on LSS facebook page.

 

Trainers Team | LSS 2012