In order to improve the capacity and skills of young Central and Eastern European environmentalists and their NGOs to better deal with organisational and management problems, the REC established the Junior Fellowship Program (JFP) in 1993. The JFP has proven to be one of the most popular REC initiatives.

  Junior Fellows follow a four-week program of integrated and interactive workshops at REC head office in Szentendre which address the particular needs of the region and its younger NGO members, including: project management, community action planning, NGO management, campaign strategy, media work and communication skills, fund-raising, public participation, strategic planning, NGOs and civil society, using computers and more. During the workshops, Fellows can develop products individually tailored toward their personal needs or their NGO's that can be applied when they return to their own country, such as project proposals or community action plans. Opportunities for independent research or working part-time on projects with REC teams or with local NGOs also exist.

  Junior Fellows come from a variety of backgrounds and from throughout the CEE region. They should be between 20 and 30 years old, share a strong interest in improving the environmental situation in the CEE region, be active in an environmental NGO, speak and write English well and have citizenship in one of the participating countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, FYR Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Yugoslavia.

  If interested, please send a letter of application in English explaining:

• your motives for applying
• your expectations of the program
• the activities on which you want to work for your NGO during the training period
• desired fellowship periods for which you want to apply

  and your curriculum vitae (CV) in English, containing:

• family name and given names
• your, and your NGO's, full mailing address
• nationality
• date and place of birth
• passport number
• education and field of specialisation
• knowledge of foreign languages (indicate fair, good or poor)
• working and other experience
• computer skills
• description of your activities in your NGO
• information about your NGO

Fellowship period:	Application deadline:
January 18 - February 14	December 11, 1998
March 22 - April 18	February 5, 1999
May 10 - June 6	April 2, 1999
June 28 - July 25	May 21, 1999
September 20 - October 17	August 13, 1999
November 1 - November 28	September 24, 1999

For more info, contact:
Adriana Craciun, REC, Junior Fellowship Program
Tel: (36-26) 504-000, Fax: (36-26) 311-294
E-mail: acraciun@rec.org