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Title: YOUTH CENTRE

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YOUTH CENTRE

LDACSS

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.

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

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

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

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.

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