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June 25, 2014

Become effective data storyteller

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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.

Article by Hervé / Blog / Leadership Summer School, lss2014, storyteller

March 19, 2014

LSS2014 Open Call for Participants

By this open call for participants, you are invited to apply to participate to the Leadership Summer School 2014. Below you can find the most important pieces of information about the event.

Why does LSS exist?

Many international organisations, representing various backgrounds and disciplines, often share similar goals to improve the skills of their members, knowledge transfer, continuity and internal communication.

The Leadership Summer School project was born to fulfil perceived needs related to development and/or improvement of their training culture, leaders readiness to manage their organisation and networking with diverse youth associations. This interdisciplinary event became a training platform for active youth volunteers.

Where and when?

We will be hosted at the Yeditepe Univeristy, in the Asian part of the city of Istanbul, Turkey from 16th to 25th July 2014.

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What are we looking for?

We are looking for 60 highly motivated and active students and youth (aged 18 to 35) who will participate in a challenging learning event including a training program of 50+ working hours.

LSS is an intensive learning event and a networking platform, aiming at increasing skills and readiness of youth NGO leaders by sharing best practices and improving leadership skills.

LSS is designed to be a very practical non-formal learning experience that aims at fostering personal development, collaboration, as well as achieving a multiplier effect for the associations involved. As participants, you will attended training and workshop sessions, group work, case studies, simulation, debates, discussions and many others, which will help you improving your skills in different aspects of leadership.

Furthermore, informal networking opportunities between participants are stimulated to address the role of culture in context of leadership and academic success.

How to apply?

Fill out the LSS 2014 Application form

Please take into account that it can take some time to complete this part.

Deadline to apply: April 13th 2014 at 23:59 CET

What about the fee?

The fee will be 200 EUR which includes:
– accommodation during the event;
– food (3 meals per day + coffee breaks);
– transport for LSS activities
– and some social activities.

If selected to participate in the event, it will be requested from you to pay 50% of the fee (100 EUR) as participation confirmation: this amount is not refundable. The rest can be paid anticipatively or at the event itself. More details will be communicated at that moment.

We are not able to provide scholarship or any form of discount.

And now

We are looking forward to reading your applications and if you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us:
Mail: contact@leadershipsummerschool.org
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leadershipsummerschool
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/LSS_online

Article by Hervé / Blog / lss2014, open call, participants

March 13, 2014

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

Article by Hervé / Blog / Application, Leadership Summer School, lss2014, Trainers

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