[see-regional] CPF, Vacancies, the IGF and Country Report

Hi all,

I wanted to drop you a line with a few pieces of information that might 
be interesting.

RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund - Apply by 31 July
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You can still apply for funding from the RIPE NCC Community Projects 
Fund until 31 July. We don't get many applications from SEE, so please 
think about it! The fund distributes up to EUR 250,000 a year to support 
projects of value to the operation, resilience and sustainability of the 
Internet, with a focus on tools and services benefitting the technical 
community in the Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia.

If you have applied before and were rejected, I'd encourage you to apply 
again. The funds we have available are not enough to award all the 
projects we'd like to and we've sometimes awarded projects after several 
re-applications.

https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf


Vacancies at RIPE NCC
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It's a bit more difficult to persuade talent to move countries during a 
pandemic, so at RIPE NCC we have quite a few vacancies open:
- Research Engineer
- Software/Data Engineer
- Information Security Engineer Cloud
- User Interface Engineer
- Software Engineer

https://www.ripe.net/about-us/staff/careers-at-the-ripe-ncc/first-section/current-openings


IGF Youth Ambassador - Apply by 23 July
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This one is for 16 to 30 years olds. If applicable to you - great. If 
not, maybe you have children or nieces and nephews or other 
acquaintances that have both technical and political inclinations?

The IGF (Internet Governance Forum) will take place on 6-10 December, 
probably in Katowice but also online. It is searching for Youth Policy 
Maker Ambassadors. It is a great chance to develop persuasive speaking, 
get to know people around the globe and get involved in Internet 
governance. Applications are accepted until 23 July:

https://yigf.gi.de/en/formular


A New Country Report
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Check out our recent Country Report covering several countries in the 
Mediterranian (Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and France). Further down 
the page you can find the report on a few other countries in South East 
Europe that we published last year:

https://labs.ripe.net/country-reports

That's it from me. I hope you find this useful and I hope to see you 
soon virtually or otherwise.

Have a nice day!

Best regards,
Gergana


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Gergana Petrova
External Relations
RIPE NCC