Successful completion of the 1st and 2nd Edition of the UNAOC Fellowship Programme
~ The Alliance of Civilizations Fellowship launched with 50 American, European, Middle Eastern and North African emerging leaders traveling on two-week program ~
50 emerging leaders have completed their program of the UNAOC Alliance of Civilizations Fellowship, which took them to the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the United States. During the two-week inaugural traveling program in each direction, fellows have developed extensive knowledge of political, economic, and social institutions and issues facing the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe and the United States.
This fellowship is a joint effort, first launched by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations in cooperation with the British Council, the League of Arab States, the Islamic Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), the Institute of International Education and the Qatar Committee for the Alliance of Civilizations . The objective is to provide young leaders from both the Europe and North America and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with a broad, firsthand experience of institutions and societies in their counterpart region. Through extended travel, fellows have gained a more thorough understanding of attitudes, politics, business, culture, and society by meeting a variety of people and participating in their way of life. Fellows were also able to pursue individual fields of interest and meet professional counterparts.
“As emerging leaders are agents of change, participants will be in a position to bring to bear in-depth understanding of diverse societies on current debates and allow others to benefit from their perspectives,” said Jorge Sampaio, High Representative, UN Alliance of Civilizations.
The UNAOC Fellowship programme educates emerging North American, European, Middle Eastern, and North African leaders on the importance of international cooperation, and encourages them to collaborate on a range of international and domestic policy challenges. Fellows are selected through a competitive nationwide and regional process and come from politics, government, media, business, and the nonprofit sector. North American and European fellows spend 15-18 days traveling to five cities across the Middle East and North Africa in Egypt, Morocco and Qatar; similarly, the Middle Eastern and North African Fellows spend 15-18 days traveling to six cities in Europe ( Brussels, London and Paris ) and the United States ( Raleigh, NC ; Roanoke, VA ; Washington DC and New-York ) learning about the institutions and people that drive the regions, cities, countries, and multilateral systems through meetings with local counterparts.
Videos about previous Fellowship Programmes:
To view Bios of Middle Eastern and North African participants of 2011:[PDF] and Bio of European and North American participants 2011: EU-NAbiofall2011 [PDF]
To view their past agenda in the US for Mena participants, Fall 2011 {view} and past Agenda in Europe {view}
To view biography’s of the 2010 Middle Eastern & North African Fellows please see this [pdf]
To view biography’s of the 2010 European & North American Fellows please see this [pdf]
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