Be The Change! Youth-led Action Programme. NEXT CALL for international projects - DEADLINE approaching!!! The next deadline for project submissions for the Be the Change! Youth-led Action Programme is March 31st. Also, £20,000 of "Rediscover Your Heart" Awards available for inspiring and empowering projects/ideas in from young people in the UK, Spring 2009. These awards are available to young people in the UK that have a project (or idea for a project!) that is empowering, inspiring and replicable, and which will help to improve the community and/or the lives of others.

These Global Education Guidelines are the result of a need expressed by the North-South Centre network of global education practitioners - the Global Education Week network - to have a common tool, built on experience gained by the network and partners, to help educators to understand and implement global education.

The January/February Latin America Bulletin has just been published on our website at www.alliancemagazine.org/en/content/lab. Alliance, in partnership with Instituto de Comunicación y Desarrollo (ICD), will be publishing a bulletin on philanthropy and social investment in Latin America every two months.

The International Youth Centre (IYC), Kuala Lumpur is organizing a training of trainer course title “A Course cum Workshop For Up-and-Coming Trainers On Imparting Noble Values” from 15 to 22 March 2009, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The course will be organized by International Youth Centre with the support of Ministry of Youth and Sports Malaysia, University Putra Malaysia (UPM) and in cooperation with World Assembly of Youth (WAY), Asian Youth Council (AYC), Committee for ASEAN Youth Cooperation (CAYC) and the Malaysian Youth Council (MYC).

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) organises every year an Indigenous Fellowship Programme, which is an extensive training programme aimed at strengthening indigenous representatives'knowledge of the United Nations system, general Human Rights mechanisms and other mechanisms more specifically dealing with indigenous issues.

Please find below a message from the Goï Peace Foundation announcing the 2009 International Essay Contest organized in cooperation with UNESCO on the theme of "The role of science in building a better world“. Young people around the world are encouraged to share their own visions of how science can contribute to the sustainable world. The deadline for entries is 30 June 2009. Regards, UNESCO, Section for Youth, Sport and Physical Education