VVD International has more than 25 years of international capacity-building experience. Up to today, it works successfully with many liberal organizations and political parties around the world. Much has been invested in different expert sessions, workshops, and panel discussions on topics such as campaigning, party structure, manifesto writing, and much more. And with success! This remains the key to the work VVD International does internationally.
However, political parties won’t exist without people, qualified and educated people. Experience shows us that political parties need sufficient political talent. Without talent political parties would extinguish rapidly. To stress the importance of political talent and in addition to VVD's International capacity-building work, we introduced new platforms: The VVD International Academies.
These academies focus purely on the political talents of different liberal political parties and organizations across the Middle East, the Caucasus, Northern Africa, and Europe. At the moment VVD International runs four physical and one online academy: Armenia, Georgia, Middle-East & Northern Africa, and Europe. The academies provide a platform for young and talented political activists from the aforementioned countries and regions.
The reason why VVD International increasingly focuses on young political talents is because of the lack of structured, recurring, and local/regional platforms for this specific target group. There is, however, an absolute necessity to educate and train the future generation, who might be the next leaders.
The academies will offer one course broken down into multiple modules, often across multiple weekends, wherein participants will follow different sessions on personal and political skills. Eventually, our goal is to prepare you for a successful political career. The curriculum offers teachings on the most modern and effective political strategies to date and also equips the participants with tools that are necessary to build on their leadership skills.
The VVD has quite some experience in training political talents. The politicians that you see working for the party, even our Prime Minister and Ministers, all have been trained by experts of the VVD. This experience will be translated into the academies by using VVD trainers and experts, using the successful models, and by following the motto: practice, practice, practice!
Have a look around! Is there is not yet an academy in your country? Please let us know!