New EU-SA-International Leadership Programme (N-EU-SAIL)

Programme(s): Erasmus+ (ERASMUS+)
Topic(s): ERASMUS-EDU-2024-VIRT-EXCH
Type of action: ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants
Project ID: 101193630

Objective: New EU South Sahara International Leadership (N-EU-SAIL) is a Virtual exchange project between the two regions which aims at training a critical mass of 720 young people with knowledge, responsibility and vision to become international leaders. The program pitched beyond level 6 is based on an agile but intense structure. It is a short, targeted, high-level, program in International Leadership. The program will be offer totally online and has at is base a serious of small international and intercultural groups of ten people. The importance of teamwork is paramount and the participants will also engage in role tasks performing related to jobs such as content creator, scenario builder, cultural mediator etc. The project counts on highly experienced experts and educators in competence development and evaluation so that 8 competences related to specific aspects of leadership to be developed in 4 blocks lasting a semester each. Another innovation of the program is the fact that each of the blocks will be accredited by ECTS and the African Tuning credit and could be expressed in Micro-credentials. The target participants for the training are expected from the two main partner organizations: university; mainly students from different carriers after finishing their first degree, or those at this level of education who are finishing or were not able to finished due to health, family or socio-economic difficulties but who has the potential and the commitment to achieve it in order to offer a service to society. Another source of potential candidates come from the group of young people from the two participating youth organisations. These, beyond students and volunteers will be youth workers and youth leaders being part of the organizations. Policy makers and researchers are expected to have an important role into a training which is meant to offer a serve the common good.