The course aims at providing training to civilian staff in election observation missions at the first steps of their career (i.e. short term observers). Selected applicants will be allowed to become aware of the role, the tasks and the status of international observers, and will be given a theoretical and practical training on election observation and election observation missions functioning.
Dates: 8-10 November 2012
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2012
The course is devoted to those applicants with no experience in election observation or to those observers who have participated to a maximum of two missions as short term observers.
In order to be eligible, applicants shall: hold a degree in Law, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, Philosophy, Anthropology or similar; have a good command of English as a foreign language and a good knowledge of at least another foreign language.
