Criteria: Experiential learning

You will need to pay for the following:   

• Visa costs   
• Occasional meals that are not included during the onsite meeting
• Fares for taxi rides in Sweden, if you take any   
• Insurance when not in Sweden 
• Local travel expenses within your home country

No, unfortunately not. We can only accept candidates who are citizens of one of our programme countries.

No, unfortunately not. You need to be no younger than 22 and no older than 45. We cannot make any exceptions to the eligibility requirements.

The offer to participate in the SI Leader Lab onsite meeting in Stockholm will be valid only if the selected candidate obtains a visa to travel to Sweden. SI will provide the invitation letter and insurance certificate needed for the visa application, but we cannot guarantee a visa. Candidates have had their visa applications rejected in a few cases in recent years. 

The programme will run from end of March to June, ending with a diploma ceremony online. 

Online
From end of March to June, there will be regular online sessions every week. There will be approximately 10 online sessions (spread over three months, plus time for your own work as well as implementation in your organisation). The online sessions are typically 90 minute sessions in small learning groups, plus the time for you to make preparatory and follow up tasks related to the sessions. Sessions and your tasks will take approximately 50 hours. There will also be different coaching sessions throughout the programme. 

During the autumn you can choose if you also want to implement a change project in your own organisation. This part of the programme is optional. You get access to coaching and learning materials based on your project.

Participants will receive an exact schedule and more information about the programme content at the start of the programme.

Onsite – Stockholm, Sweden
On 4-10 May (including travel days), there will be an onsite meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. On these days, the programme is full-time and it’s important to take time off work to be able to fully participate.

Your organisation involvement
As a participant, it’s important that you have permission from your supervisor to engage in the programme and try out tools and methods from the programme with your team. You are expected to actively implement the tools and methods you gain from the programme (for example, by holding implementation workshops with your team). You can also invite your team members to participate in optional coaching sessions.

You can apply to the programme if you are a citizen of Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye and Ukraine. If you represent a Swedish organisation working for democracy, human rights or freedom of expression, you can apply to be a strategic partner. More information is available on the page: Är du en av de svenska deltagarna? 

If you represent a Swedish organisation working for democracy, human rights or freedom of expression, you can apply to be a strategic partner. More information is available on the page: Är du en av de svenska deltagarna? 

Strengthened capacity in the organisation to successfully organise and lead teamwork  

• Strengthened ability to lead goal-oriented group processes in ways that promote inclusion, creativity and ownership.
• Strengthened ability to create openness, trust and effective working structures in a team.
• Strengthened ability to create a work culture characterised by continuous learning, feedback and development.
• Strengthened ability to nurture wellbeing in a team.

Strengthened capacity in the organisation to implement and lead effective advocacy work  

• Strengthened ability to drive systemic change to consider the root causes of problems.
• Strengthened ability to create effective narratives and methods with the purpose to shift mindsets and influence policy.
• Strengthened ability to design and implement people-centred processes in the organisation’s advocacy work (for example, design thinking).

Strengthened capacity in the organisation to successfully drive strategy and change management processes.

• Strengthened ability to drive change through a specific strategy.

Teams
In SI Leader Lab, a team is defined as a group of people who perform interdependent tasks to work towards accomplishing a specific objective or common mission. Some teams only exist and operate for a limited time.

Organisation
In SI Leader Lab, an organisation is defined as a group of people with specific roles who work together to achieve shared goals within a specific structure. For example, it can be an NGO or a foundation. 

Alumni from SI Leader Lab, or other similar SI Leadership Programmes – for example, Young Leaders Visitors Programme (YLVP), Young Connectors of the Future (YCF), Swedish Institute Management Programme (SIMP), or She Entrepreneurs – are not eligible to apply for SI Leader Lab.