AI Youth Forum On 4 May 2021, ELSA will celebrate its 40th Anniversary, and naturally, the International Board of ELSA has been planning eagerly for this occasion. While this will obviously involve the gathering of ELSA members and alumni at a great party, we wanted to do more. When looking at the purpose of ELSA, it became clear to us that there is no greater way to celebrate ELSA than by empowering youth to create a just world. Therefore, we created the AI Youth Forum which will be carried out over the course of the ELSA term 2020/2021. The Youth Forum aims at bringing together youth from all over Europe to discuss a just world can be created through AI. The project will last the entire coming term and is divided in three phases. Firstly, the participants will be educated on AI during the months leading to the Forum through a series of five webinars. During
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the Youth Forum itself, the participants will be divided into four working groups, namely gender, age, education and international relations. Through training sessions, buzz groups and drafting sessions, the participants will acquire the skills necessary to draft a policy paper and AI toolkit. The final phase consists of the follow-up; the policy paper will be made public and shared with the relevant public sector actors making decisions in the respective areas. Moreover, the AI tool-kit will be shared with the ELSA Network on national and local levels. The celebrations will predominantly take place during a Gala Ball for which the entire network, including active members and alumni, is invited. STEP vacancies on Human Rights In an effort to highlight the professional opportunities in the field of human rights and pro bono, in autumn 2019, ELSA introduced a new
search engine feature for the Student Trainee Exchange Programme (STEP) for Traineeship Providers active in the field of human rights as well as the topic of the IFP. In total, ELSA offered nearly 40 STEP vacancies in the field of human rights (e.g. the Council of Europe, legal advice centres). For more information, please visit step. elsa.org. Socially Responsible Brand ELSA strives for building a socially responsible future generation of lawyers and law students, and builds its brand around the same values with strong dedication. Keeping this in mind, we as the International Board of ELSA made social responsibility one of the focus points in our One Year Operational Plan and started implementing these values in our everyday life as well as the ELSA Brand.
