Youth Leadership Academy
The Youth Leadership Academy is an annually training program for Red Cross and Red Crescent (RC/RC) youth volunteers from across the world hosted by Danish Red Cross Youth.
The purpose of the Youth Leadership Academy is to build strong youth leaders within the RC/RC movement who can stand out as role models and agents of change. Youth leaders who can initiate and lead humanitarian activities for and with youth within their National Societies and in their local communities. Young leaders and volunteers in the RC/RC movement represent both the present and the future leadership in today’s world marked by crises, uncertainty, and an increase in humanitarian challenges.
At the Youth Leadership Academy, we focus on building the skills and knowledge of the participants, so they are better equipped to be resilient and innovative leaders that have the tools to lead fellow youths and the confidence in their own skills needed to step into leadership positions.
It builds up the Red Cross spirit
amongst youth from the entire world. It is very great to get to know people from other countries, to learn from their experience and to ask for their advice.
- Viktoriia, Ukrainian Red Cross, participant at Youth Leadership Academy 2022
Each year the program of the Youth Leadership Academy is designed in a way where the participants explore several topics. The training varies between formal sessions and non-formal training methods that combine innovative group work and draws upon participants’ experiences and existing projects. All of this in an international learning environment with other participants from across the RC/RC Movement where cultural encounters and sharing of experiences plays a key component in creating the unique learning space of the Youth Leadership Academy.
We know that the RC/RC youth volunteers have great potential to be leaders in the movement and beyond and are proud that many alumni of the Youth Leadership Academy are still engaged within the RC/RC movement and have excelled to become even more important volunteer leaders or staff today.
For me it was the first time to meet so many youths from other countries.
I reached out to some of them afterwards to get advice from them afterwards. If I ever need any information from any country I can always reach out to the people from there. Even though I don’t talk to them often, I know that they got my back.
- Eneless, Malawi Red Cross, participant at Youth Leadership Academy 2021
Who can participate at the Youth Leadership Academy?
The Youth Leadership Academy targets young volunteers at the age of 18-30 years from across the global RC/RC Movement who are committed to being role models and take on leadership in their National Societies.
Questions?
If you have any questions about the Youth Leadership Academy, please reach out to us on drcy-yla@urk.dk.