YOUTH CENTRE

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YOUTH CENTRE

• LDACSS

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• Youth centre is launched as a program of local
  office of NGO Local Democracy Agency for Central
  and Southern Serbia. The idea of establishing
  Youth centre was created by informal group of
  young enthusiast with creative and innovative
  ideas for solving problems in local community,
  with focus on problems of young people in Nis.
• Youth centre was established according to idea of
  forming an Info point by ALDA- Association of
  Local Democracy Agencies (Youth the right
  direction project), but it was redefined because
  of increased range of activities and number of
  interested future users of the program. Youth
  Centre, therefore, represents a build-up of
  Info-point.
• Youth Centre represents a programme that offers
  young people to finally satisfy the needs that
  are recognised as most important in one place.

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• VISION
• Developed democratic civil surrounding in which
  young people are key actors of decision making
  and development process and other relevant civil
  society processes.
• MISSION
• We are a group of young activists which, with
  active involvement of target group, by using all
  existing resources, works on uniting and
  development of creative potentials of young
  people and increasing the level of youth activism
  and engagement in key processes in local
  community

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• AIMS OF YOUTH CENTRE priorities
• youth education and development of various
  skills, (mainly with acknowledging the principle
  of peer education, youth for youth learning)
• membership networking and development of
  voluntarism
• development and support of youth initiatives and
  campaigns
• development of local cultural potentials and
  intercultural exchange
• working on increasing the knowledge of youth
  about processes of involvement in EU processes,
  and encouraging them to take an active role in
  these processes

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• PROGRAMMES
• Education (courses, seminars, trainings,
  workshops)
• Basic themes PCM and writing project proposals,
  European integration processes, democracy,
  tolerance, processes of building civil society
• Publishing
• civil society development
• culture (organizing and promoting cultural
  events)
• MAIN ACTIVITIES of Youth Centre
• Informing youth about relevant issues, events,
  institutions publishing and distribution of info
  material
• Education of youth (courses, seminars, trainings,
  workshops)
• Youth projects and initiatives, campaigns
• Networking and partnership building with NGOs and
  relevant institutions, both in national and
  international level
• Organization and promotion of cultural events
  according to recognized needs of youth

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BRANCHES

• Info centre
• Gathering and distribution of information
  relevant for youth in Nis
• Enabling and empowering of free information flow,
  in order to help young people and provoke their
  activism, initiatives and projects
• Voluntary Centre
• Promotion of youth mobility by international
  activities, with the dimension of informal
  education such as youth exchanges, volunteering,
  youth initiatives and trainings.
• Involvement in programs of promotion, education
  and implementation of defined project ideas
• EU club
• Support from local level to EU integration
  process
• Education of youth about EU and integration
  process
• Education about legal, social and economical
  principles of EU, as well as about good and bad
  practice
• Centre for promoting of youth international
  culture
• Cooperation with Embassies and Cultural Centres
  of other countries in Serbia in order to
  establish cultural exchange and cooperation
• Exchange of young artists and implementation of
  projects for affirmation of nonaffirmated young
  artists
• Presentation of film, music, art work of young
  artists

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• TARGET GROUPS
• Target group primarily consists of young people
  in Ni (age 15-30) but all the other interested
  people are welcome. Start-up activities will be
  focused on students of University of Nis and
  pupils in secondary schools, as well as young
  people who are out of University, primarily
  unemployed ones. Our promotional efforts will be
  directed to all young people with no exceptions.
• ACTIVISTS OF YOUTH CENTRE
• Project teams of young experienced youth
  activists for each branch of the Youth Centre are
  established for launching the program.
• Young Ambassadors, chosen in the processes of
  establishing Info Point, have already taken an
  active role in the work of Youth Centre.
• Volunteers and interested young people from local
  community will be involved in work and capacity
  building and strengthening the organization.
• On this program, LDA has support of Local
  Government and ALDA network.

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BACKGROUND

• Recent researches (there were only few) have
  shown that young people in Serbia, are inactive,
  apathetic, apolitical. Although this is commonly
  known, there is a lack of relevant information
  about all aspects of life of young people, both
  in terms of quality and quantity. Because of
  that, one of the first activities of newly
  established Youth Centre will in fact be a
  research about this matter. The data that we will
  focus on will primarily be related to their
  interest in voting on elections, involvement in
  youth initiatives, projects and campaigns, about
  their activism and fields of their engagement,
  events that they organize and take part in,
  sources of informing, active use of internet,
  what is the field of information relevant for
  youth in which they recognize the biggest lack,
  how they spend free time... This information will
  help as to realize the problems of youth and to
  mobilize them to work together on problem
  solving. We want to involve as many people as we
  can and to solve recognized problems by projects,
  step by step. We believe that this approach is
  more efficient and productive than the one in
  which target group is only the passive
  beneficiary of the project. In this way, young
  people can launch their own initiatives, so we
  hope to have multiplicative process...
• Insufficient and nontransparent distribution of
  relevant information for youth causes their low
  interest for important questions and inactivity,
  that results in missing significant opportunities
  for self education and development and unused
  potentials. Mission of Youth Centre is therefore
  enabling and strengthening of free flow of
  information, with aim to help the youth and to
  start and develop youth activism, to support
  youth initiatives and projects. In that way, we
  would develop long term aim strengthening of
  local community potentials by getting new, young,
  active and innovative people for leading
  development process.

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• PROPOSED PROJECTS

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BCIF - Balkan Community Initiatives Fund
15.11.2007. rejectedPartnership for Education
and Community Development (PECD) Program in Nis,
Serbia 14.12.2007 rejectedProject - I want to
know

• AIMS
• to make future students become aware of the
  decision making process about their future
  profession
• active participation and interactive cooperation
  of professors, parents and experts (pedagogue and
  psychologist) in helping students with making the
  decision
• to contribute to the decrease of prejudices about
  faculties and professions

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SHL - Schüler Helfen Leben 15.1.2008.
rejectedProject - A place for all capacity
building for youth centre

• Proposed project is focused on establishing and
  empowering Youth Centre that will respond to
  recognized most important needs of youth in Nis.
  It will be consisted of 4 branches info,
  volunteer and intercultural centre and EU club.
  They will have constant, (every-day) and also
  each one of them will have some special and one
  main activity, as a result of education of youth
  Ambassadors. Those activities will have the aim
  to promote activities of Centre and branches, and
  to increase level of transparency in local
  community. The main goal of all activities as
  mobilization and promoting youth activism.

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European Youth Foundation1.4.2008.
rejectedProject International youth meeting
Share and compare

• The objectives
• To identify and understand the state of the
  indicators of the national youth policies
• To define main problems and obstacles on the way
  of development of the national youth policies
• To recognize and exchange the good-practice
  examples and other possible solutions
• To make a network and partnership of regional
  youth NGOs, and ensure cooperation on future
  youth projectsTo exchange the knowledge about
  Youth in Action and other national and
  international youth programmes and donors

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World bank 1.4.2008 rejected

• The main purpose of this proposal is to provide
  graduates (future students) with all the relevant
  information, from the first hand, coming from the
  students themselves, and encourage their
  independent secondary researches and getting
  additional information. By promoting and
  developing this alternative source of
  information, we want to make a contribution to
  developing a culture of career management, and
  active participation in the decision making
  process (when deciding what to study). Also, we
  would like to contribute to fulfilling of other
  project aims that are
• To encourage and ensure active participation and
  interactive cooperation of professors, parents
  and experts (pedagogues and psychologists) in
  helping students with decision-making process
• To contribute to the decrease of prejudices about
  faculties and professions.

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Ministry of youth and sport 15.4.2008 in
process

• Training course for youth ambassadors
• Team work
• Active citizenship
• Civil Rights and responsibilities
• Youth participation on local level
• Interculturality
• Tolerance
• City live performance - silent theatre

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Youth in action Action 3 - Youth in the world 3.1
- Cooperation with Neighboring Partner Countries
Youth Exchanges30.5.2008 in processProject
InterculturArt

• The InterculturArt is an exchange that will be
  organized during March 2009 in the city of Ni,
  Serbia, and will gather together 20 young artists
  active in the field of engaged art coming from
  Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Italy
  and Serbia, in the framework of a Youth in Action
  exchange.
• It will aim at strengthening a sustainable
  dialogue and a deep cooperation between young
  people from these countries, focusing more on
  cooperation between young artists from the Balkan
  region, as well as support them as local
  promoters of intercultural dialogue and tolerance
  within their respective communities.

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Ministry of youth and sport13.6.2008 in
processProject One place for all

• Proposed project is focused on establishing Youth
  Centre. Youth Centre will have 4 sectors Sector
  for nonformal education, Sector for promotion of
  the youth culture, Info centre and EU club. All
  sectors will have everyday activities. Three
  special activities will be realized through
  implementation of the project as a result of the
  education of the youth activists. That special
  activities will be used in order to promote Youth
  Centre and to improve range of visibility of the
  program in local community. The main goal of all
  activities of the youth program is promotion of
  the activism and volunteerism among youth and
  youth mobility.

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Human Resources

• YOUTH ACTIVISTS
• Miodrag Micic 0638814677 Mixa0804_at_yahoo.com
• Vladana Jevtic 0642966627 bekicanish_at_hotmail.c
  om
• Petrovic Dragana 0645348648 dragpetr_at_eunet.yu
  
• Mina Ivovic 062421214 Mina.zabica_at_yahoo.com
• Stefan Jovanovic 0643840940
  Ste.jovanovic_at_gmail.com
• Ðorde Stankovic 0643255001 stankovicdjordje_at_be
  otel.net
• Ana Jovanovic 0645242025 jovanovicanna_at_yahoo.c
  om
• Ivana Cvetkovic 0641164193 Ika.smellycat_at_gmail
  .com
• Aleksandra Jovic 062390730 Bambina.aki_at_gmail.c
  om
• Andrija Krasic Krasa__90_at_hotmail.com
• Duan Dimitrijevic 0631933011
  Dimitrijevic_dusan_at_yahoo.com
• Jelena ivkovic 0643229491 Boaring4me_at_yahoo.co
  m
• Sasa Trencic 0643045189/14
• Kosta Janic Kostajanic_at_yahoo.co.uk
• Dragana Jankovic 062 246-830
  gaga.dj.89_at_gmail.com
• Ana Stevanovic 0611860576
• Dragoslava Markovic 0644679503
  Dragoslava.markovic_at_gmail.com