Program
Organizers
Project Coordinator: Barbara Simonič (IAPSS Treasurer)
International Cooperation & Guests: Iana Stantieru (IAPSS Chairperson)
Contacts and communication: Lina Pavletič (IAPSS Vice-Chairperson)
PR department: Bojan Breznik (IAPSS Secretary General)
The association
The International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS) is a platform for political science students and students interested in political science issues. The Association is international, politically independent, non-profit and student-run, and aims to have global impact in the political science sphere. Providing its members with knowledge, information and skills regarding current matters in the field of political science and their approach, IAPSS seeks to play a role in the lives of Political Science students in the world. It aims at engaging their potential and stimulating them to become active participants in shaping their local communities and the wider international society. In its ten years of existence, IAPSS embraced over 50 association members, approximately 10.000 individuals, from more than forty countries spread all over the world. It evolved from a loose network to an Association with a permanent secretariat in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where a team of ten students is working on a daily basis to initiate and coordinate projects and activities on the local, regional and international levels.
At international level, IAPSS has already organized more than 15 big scales, successful events, with various topics and world-wide participation. To name only a few of the most recent ones: Old, New and Future Europe – one international event consisting in 3 international conferences organized in Ljubljana, Bucharest and Rome (March and May 2006), supported by the European Commission and targeting issues of identity and future of the European continent; 9th IAPSS Annual Conference and General Assembly (April 2006) held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with a participation of 100 students world-wide and tackling Global Crime; in September 2006, in Portoroz, Slovenia, IAPSS organized an international NATO Simulation, in cooperation with NATO and the Munich European Forum.
As an emerging stake-holder of the local and international civil society, the association aims at making a difference in the field of human rights, with contribution of its members to human rights protection and promotion. »Youth Bridging the Gap: Reaching out to the Roma« is the first of its kind, but one in a series of projects to come. IAPSS will try to develop a core of international activists in the field, with the knowledge and will to create events and projects that can result in the improvement of human rights protection worldwide.
For more information please see: www.IAPSS.org