outreach | future european leaders scholarship

fels in German means 'rock' - remember: "you are the rock I will build my network on". This why the Future European Leaders Scholarship is awarded by navreme knowledge development to selected young post-graduate students from the EU's Neighbourhood. Young experts and students from our seminars are the future rocks of a Europe-wide network.

The navreme-FELS is a moderate fellowship and financial contribution to their studies, and mainly aims at motivating and rewarding their research on Europe. Above all, it expresses a commitment to continue cooperation with them, as mentors, colleagues - and future contractors.

The 2008 FELS recipient is from Belarus: Natallia Nevyarovich. Her research interest is intercultural communication, and she finished her studies at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences (specialization – information and communication) of the Belarusian State University in Minsk. Her FELS essay is on "The concept of leisure: Western and Eastern perspective". At present she is a postgraduate student of the Department of Leisure, Environment and Tourism at Wageningen University (NL).

In 2007, the FELS grantee is Özen Karaca from Ankara, Turkey, who was a trainee in our trainer training programme in 2006. She is researching "Anti-European sentiments among high school students" in Turkey, and what navreme could do to reduce anti-EU feelings. Given the fact that nationalism is rising in Turkey, starting from the youth (it constitutes the biggest part of the total population in Turkey) who will be the leader of the future, and conducting research on them with the purpose of struggling for the elimination of racist and xenophobic sentiments is her meaningful effort.

In 2006, agreement was reached with Zulfiya Tursunova from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, a graduate from the M.A. programme at the European Peace University in Schlaining, who is pursuing research on Gender Conflict Resolution, and planning to develop a handbook for the transcend network of peace educators. Ms Tursunova spent some 10 hours per week in the navreme office for her research and support with project-related tasks.

In 2005, the selected researcher was Ovidiu Pop from Bucharest, Romania, for his M.A. thesis on human capital in Eastern Europe. Mr Pop was also a short-term intern at the navreme premisses in Vienna.

In 2004, the first FELS was awarded to Nina Kolybashkina from Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine for her doctoral studies in Oxford on social and peace movements in transition countries.

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