Hi friends at Youth Voices Count!
After several successful online editions since 2020, our IGLYO Global Online Activist Academy will be back on 1-18 April 2025. As the deadline for applications is coming this Sunday 16 February at 23:59 CEST, we wanted to ask for your help with spreading the word across your network.
What’s on the Global Online Activist Academy?
Our Global Online Activist Academy is a 3-week skills-based training programme for young activists aged 18-30 years old at the beginning of their activist careers who are passionate about activism, LGBTQI rights, learning and collaborating with other LGBTQI activists from around the globe. It aims to strengthen the LGBTQI youth movement across the world by building skills and competencies, creating networks of support and exchange of practices, and increasing the resilience of young LGBTQI rights defenders.
What’s on the Programme?
This year’s focus is on project management for LGBTQI activism, equipping participants to design impactful, equitable, and sustainable initiatives. Over the course of three weeks, participants will take part in expert-led workshops and live sessions, as well as attempt one skill-based task to apply the skills they learned, while receiving feedback from the Activist Academy experts.
How to Apply?
Applicants can read the full call and apply by Sunday 16 February 2025 at 23:59 CET through this form. The Activist Academy is completely free of charge and we welcome applications from individuals from all over the world.
Who can Apply?
Any LGBTQI young person between 18 and 30 years old around the world. IGLYO particularly welcomes applications from underrepresented groups and communities such as young women, trans and non-binary youth, intersex youth, young people with disabilities, young people living with HIV, racialised youth, Black youth and young people of colour, and young refugees and migrants. In the context of the Global Online Activist Academy we particularly welcome applications from participants living in the Global South.
Will there be an in-person edition?
In July 2025, IGLYO will organise a one-week in-person Activist Academy, open only to participants residing in Council of Europe Member States, Russia, Belarus, or Kosovo. The aims and programme of the in-person Activist Academy will be similar to those of the online one. You can keep an eye on our newsletter if you are interested in this opportunity as well.
Questions & Contact
If you have any questions regarding the Academy, please email the IGLYO Programmes Team Viola (She/her) and Ali (They/them) at programmes@iglyo.org.
Thank you in advance for your help in spreading the word. I have attached to this email the visuals we prepared for social media and web.
If you have any amazing ideas or plans on engaging with us, drop us an email at secretariat@yvc-asiapacific.org 
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