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The IYLC is aimed at university and college students, who seek to strengthen their leadership skills and gain meaningful international experience. The Conference welcomes individuals between 18 and 24, who demonstrate commitment to academic excellence, personal development and community involvement in a spirit of responsible and sustainable leadership.
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In the coming months, Youth Leadership Europe will be awarding 30 scholarships to students who come from underprivileged communities around the world. We hope that these scholarships will enable students from Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, the Carribean, Pacific and many other regions to attend the International Youth Leadership Conference in Prague.
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| There are some practical things you all need to know prior to Prague (or 'Praha Baby!' as we affectionatly know it). We always get emails with questions about money, power, sleeping arrangements for couples; for some questions Wikipedia replaces the dog as a man's best friend, for others we will need to tell you... Money Money Money, as the Scandanavian pop supremos sing, is so funny. Czech Republic is part of the European Union but it is not part of the EU single currency, the Euro. Euros will not, and I repeat, will NOT be accepted in Prague as a method of payment in shops, and only some hotels will accept them for room payment. The Czech Koruna (known as 'crown', denoted CKZ) is the local currency, and there is approximately 15CZK to $1US and 24CZK to 1Euro. It is a good idea to get money changed before you come as Prague caters for the tourist market and has slightly inflated rates of exchange to allow for profit margins. When deciding about laptops, phone chargers, and of course, GHDs (some people can't live without them - freaks) you will need to get an adaptor. The Czech Republic uses class C and E plugs, with two prongs going into the wall socket, with a usual voltage from the mains of 230V at 50Hz. C is more common and E is mainly used in Francophone countries. So, try not to hate me with this next part. Couples who are coming to the conference, our room allotment process stands as random and not mixing the sexes, regardless of relationship. We don't do this to spoil the fun, but rather because we want people to get out there and meet all the other folk at the conference. Now, I do not know you all yet so cannot speak to your own situation, but we have had it at past conferences where couples retreated to their room for long periods of time and didn't interact with other participants at all. It harmed the group dynamic and left the organisers in a sticky situation because, honest to dear God, we don't want to interfere in your relationships. Also, this isn't exactly a holiday, and we want to keep everyone in the same room sharing arrangement to harbour the best possible atmosphere for people to get to know each other. At the last two IYLC's we have had quite a few couples who really didn't mind not sharing, so hopefully it won't be an issue! It's all about mixing it up. Lastly, we are breaking our backs trying to find the most important thing for food at the conference: halal meat. It is very difficult to find a good supplier in the Czech Republic, and when you do it is hard to get enough halal for all the conference. At the very least there will be veggie options at every meal, but we won't rest until we get some halal! |
