Welcome to the Okaju Summerseminar 2024

Training, information and exchange week on the situation of children's rights in Luxembourg and worldwide

The Summer Seminar is organised by the Office of the Ombudsman fir Kanner a Jugendlecher in partnership with and with the support of the Chambre des Salariés and in partnership with the national monitoring bodies of the CCDH (Commission consultative des droits de l'Homme), the Ombudsman and the CELPL (Contrôleur externe des lieux privatifs de liberté), the CET (Centre pour l’Egalité de Traitement), and in cooperation with the MENJE (Ministry of National Education, Children and Youth) and the MJ (Ministry of Justice), the MS (Ministry of Health and Social Security), public institutions and civil society organisations and players.

Objective: To create a space for meetings, (further) training and exchanges between actors, professionals and decision-makers concerned with issues relating to children's rights (including actors from the social and educational sectors as well as civil society and the legal professions) in order to exchange ideas, obtain information, receive training, identify each other, consult, mobilise, develop, question each other, interconnect, open up to current and future challenges... and give each other time to reflect together over the course of a week.

Target audience: The Summer Seminar is aimed at institutional actors and civil society, professionals and decision-makers, in particular those working in the social, educational and socio-judicial sectors, legal professionals (lawyers, magistrates, jurists, mediators), students and future professionals, as well as interested children and young people.

Speakers: Each half-day of the Summer Seminar is led by interdisciplinary speakers working in the field of children's rights (research, teaching, political action, educational and social initiatives, etc.) or by OKAJU staff members.

Languages used during the seminar: presentations and speeches will be given in the usual languages of the country. No interpretation will be provided.

Useful information

The Summer Seminar will take place on 16 July 2024 in Wiltz and from 17 to 18 July 2024 in the training room of the Luxembourg Lifelong Learning Centre, Chambre des Salariés in Luxembourg-Bonnevoie, 2-4 rue Pierre Hentges, L-1726 Luxembourg. Participants will be welcomed from 1 p.m. on 17 July and from 8.30 a.m. on 18 July. Seminars will run until 5.30pm. Twenty-minute coffee breaks will be provided in the morning and afternoon. Drinks will be available.

Lunch on 18 July 2024 at the Chambre des Salariés is at the expense of the participants. It is possible to eat in the Brasserie de la Chambre des Salariés, with a dish of the day and a vegetarian alternative (starter, main course and drink for €10). Interested participants should reserve a menu when registering for the seminar. Lunch at the Luxembourg Lifelong Learning Centre is at cost price (€10) and by reservation only (choice of vegetarian or non-vegetarian).

Registration and certificate of participation

Register for one or more of the 4 themed half-days and workshops at this link . Participants will receive a certificate of attendance (in person or online) on demand. Participation in the OKAJU 2024 summer seminar can be validated as continuing education by the Ministry of National Education, Children and Youth (MENJE) and the National Institute of Public Administration (INAP).

Please note that the number of participants is limited to 30 for the guided tour in Wiltz and 60 for the two half-days at the Chambre des salariés on a "first come, first served" basis. An email with the link to the webinar will be sent to those wishing to take part in the training online.

Further information and contact

Ombudsman fir Kanner a Jugendlecher

Mënscherechtshaus - 65, route d'Arlon, L-1140 Luxembourg

Tel: (+352) 28 37 36 35, Email: contact@okaju.lu

www.summerseminar.lu

Access :

Chambre des Salariés Luxembourg
2-4 rue Pierre Hentges
L-1726 Luxembourg

By bike :

3 Vel'oh stations are close to the LLLC :
№ 4 Rocade
№ 37 Gaulois
№ 2 Gare Centrale 2

By car :

3 pay car parks are close to the LLLC:
Parking Rocade
Parking Nobilis
Neipperg car park