The Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP) is to launch a Young Planners Network at its Biennial Business Meeting to be held in Montreal on 1 October 2010 ahead of the Canadian Institute of Planners' annual conference.
The purpose of the CAP Young Planners Network is to connect and mobilise planning students and recently qualified professional planners. It is open to students on planning courses in the Commonwealth, those who graduated from such courses in the last 10 years and/or practising planners under the age of 35 who are full members of an organization that is a full or affiliated member of CAP.
The intention is to set up a virtual community using Facebook, Twitter and other web-based connections to exchange practice, better understand each other’s planning challenges, and to connect young planners directly into CAP’s work and regional conferences and into the Commonwealth more generally. The aim is to have a CAP Young Planners Network contact point for each Commonwealth country, though realistically there are many Commonwealth countries where there is no planning institute, and so methods of outreach will need to be used to connect to such places. The Network will also feed into the CAP Executive and link to the Vice Presidents responsible for the CAP regions (Americas, Australasia and the Pacific, East Africa, South Africa, West Africa, Europe, South West Asia and South East Asia).
CAP intends to launch this network by holding a competition with the winning entrants attending the Montreal business meeting and conference.
To view details of the competition brief, relevant reading materials and conditions of entry, please click here.
Competition entries are due by 16 August 2010.
