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LSS 2015 Organising Committee

BISTRI UM – Zavod za podjetnost mladih Maribor (SMART MINDS – ASSOCIATION FOR PROACTIVE/ENTREPRENEURIAL YOUTH MARIBOR) in its core focuses on empowering young people with proactive and entrepreneurial thinking in order to face the challenging job market of today. Association is the successor entity of the sole entrepreneur status of the founder, e.i. the upgrade entity that combines the coaching, educational and promotional capacities and has engaged in forming a team of young co-workers, professionals in the field of PR, career coaching & consulting and project management with the objective to offer necessary support to individuals at the beginning of their careers or at the early stages of development of their businesses.

The associations’ mission is to promote building on the entrepreneurial mindset and networking among youth early and during educational years – as a crucial feature to have later for any young  person or young professional, whether they start solo career, are employed elsewhere or engage in voluntary work.

Recent project was launched in cooperation with the national TV, when the association initiated and produced an educational TV series called “First euro” (20 episodes throughout the 2014) which covered different skills useful for young employment-seekers or those starting their solo entrepreneurship careers (from CVs, interviews, business models, negotiations, job interviews, success stories, etc.). As LSS 2015 Organising Committee, Bistri Um, will act as a logistical team for all components to host LSS participants as smoothly as possible.

Maribor will Host LSS 2015

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It is our pleasure to inform you today that the edition 2015 of Leadership Summer School will happen in Maribor, Slovenia.

The event will be organised with 2 local partners: Smart minds association – Association for entrepreneurial youth – newly established youth association, specialized in coaching youth to gain the skills, structure and more pro-activeness in their careers and Business Intelligence Centre – newly created business informal organization, with the goal to gather the business oriented people in order to share knowledge, help each other and educate the future generations of leaders.

Their vision of LSS 2015 is to turn the event into an international living lab for creating the ideas and “business plans” with the spirit of cause marketing that have the potential to be implemented in the local environment of the participants. The concept of “cause marketing” is well known in the USA/Canada, and is rising in the slower pace in Europe. We believe LSS could be a good ambassador for it.

Get ready for the upcoming weeks and months as you might want to be part of the next edition as Trainer, Participants or…

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?

Unleash your inner innovator

Frederik-Pferdt-lss2014Leadership Summer School 2014 will welcome as Guest Speaker Dr. Frederik G. Pferdt. He is the Head of Innovation & Creativity Programs at Google and leads a talented team which catalyzes 10x thinking at Google by building a thriving innovation environment.

 

Frederik is co-founder of “The Garage” at the Center for Design Research (d.school), Stanford University and research scholar at EdLab, Columbia University. As the founder of LearningDesign:Lab, he created award-winning user-centered design experiences for various groups — from kindergartners, to teachers, to CEOs.

As a Lecturer at Stanford University, he feels lucky to see students being empowered through user-centered, prototype-driven design so that they can do cool things that matter in the world. He currently lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and two sons, and draws inspiration from his boys’ childish minds and playfulness.

Frederik will animate an Innovation Lab workshop at Yeditepe University during the event.

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What can be beyond Leadership?

Patrick-Cowden-lss2014The following person to accept our invitation is Patrick Cowden who was very happy that a project like LSS exists and is more than happy to contribute to the event.

Patrick Cowden’s vision is to create an atmosphere in companies, where people are willing to strive to contribute by their own motivation. At the core of their methods and training is the principle of relationships and human interaction.
During his workshop, Patrick will challenge LSS participants to find out what can be Beyond Leadership.

About Beyond Leadership

The Beyond leadership Team has been striving to change the current situation in terms of leadership. There are people of various age and gender, from all walks of life, with a multitude of skills and life experiences. The team will do everything to fulfil Beyond mission for business and society by unfolding the highest power of interaction for the benefit of companies and organizations.

About Patrick Cowden

meet beyond leadership

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.

Learning Experience for Future Leaders

make_a_differenceThis year LSS wants to go few step further in the development of the event in our quest to transform into a full learning experience along with the theme “Creating a Movement”.

For this seventh edition we launched invitations to change makers to take part in the LSS as guest Speakers.

In order for us to achieve our goal, we are going to need some help & support. Therefore we launched a crowdfunding campaign to cover expenses for our guest Speakers including their stay for few days during the event at the Leadership Summer School 2014 venue in Yeditepe. We expect the encountering will boost motivation, provide food for thoughts, allow participants to learn from our guests’ successes and failures.

So far, we have an European start-upinfogr.am, which is revolutionising the data visualisation by creating interactive infographics, a Management Consultant challenging us to find out what can be Beyond Leadership and the Head of Innovation and Creativity Program of Google who will animate an Innovation Lab.

We will welcome your support as well! Please visit LSS Full Learning experience for future Leaders campaign and, in case you help, get ready to receive some nice thank you gift. 🙂

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

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

LSS 2014 Supervisory Board

This year’s Supervisory Board will be a gathering of people coming from different NGOs, such as AEGEE, EMSA, BEST, IAAS and Zero Generation, and originated from different countries: Turkey, Germany, Portugal, Greece, Bulgaria and Belgium.

Here is the supervisory board of the 7th edition of Leadership Summer School.

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A bit more about their background…

Elena Antova, will be responsible for the communication towards trainers. She is Bulgarian and belongs to AEGEE-Sofia.

Lyda Michopoulou, responsible for this year’s LSS fundraising, comes from Greece and comes from IAAS.

Mafalda Faria is Portuguese and belongs to BEST Porto. She will be responsible for LSS public relations.

Melike Ozdogru, Turkish and also coming from EMSA Yeditepe, Melike will be responsible for the communication towards the organising committee.

Meriç Ulgen, President of the organising committee, comes from Turkey and is  member of EMSA Yeditepe. Together with his team, he will organise the logistic of the event.

Patrik Jahns, will be the person responsible for applicants and participants of LSS’14. He is German and belongs to BEST Erlangen.

And Herve Tunga, the general coordinator of LSS, comes from Belgium, an alumnus from BEST, Leadership Development Director at Zero Generation and Co-Founder of Leadership Summer School.

The LSS 2014 SB is determined to make of this edition an unforgettable and gratifying event for everyone!