Young Leaders Forum in Tunisia

The third Young Leaders Forum (YLF) took place in Sidi Bou Said (Tunisia), from September 27 to October 1, 2013. It assembled young professionals from Germany, Tunisia, Egypt and Libya and offered them a platform to exchanges perspectives on regional developments, develop joint ideas and projects and consolidate their network.

The forum was organized by the Center for Applied Policy Research at the University of Munich (C·A·P) in cooperation with the Arab Institute for Human Rights (AIHR) from Tunis and the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement of the American University in Cairo (AUC).

Previous forum meetings of the YLF took place in Egypt and Germany.

The YLF is one of the projects of the Leading Change Across the Mediterranean Program / Akademie Neues Arabien that was launched in 2012 and is funded by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Affairs and the Federal Foreign Office.

It pursues three overarching objectives:

• Structures: Establishing, strengthening and expanding interpersonal as well as inter-institutional network structures

• Knowledge and ideas: Contributing to the generation of ideas and strategic thinking, including the dissemination of knowledge and ideas

• Skills: Enhancing personal capacities and skills, intercultural competences, training capacities and methodological expertise