EU camp - "Youth of Europe - My body", Umag (Croatia)

The team of "Education centre" this year, as for the last two, participated in the project of EU "Youth of Europe 2006". The project was held near Umag, Istra, Croatia. This year's theme was "My body" with very interesting workshops from which highlight the yoga, massage, body painting, Afro-workshop (African music and dancing) and many others. Thirteen days of participating with seven other European nations (Austria, France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia) was a really pleasant experience. Beside already existing workshops, creative students came up with fun things to do: playing water polo in the mud, drove carting, made traditional food at "La festa", participated at triathlon, military exercises and many other things. The place where we were staying was excellent: Beach-houses, palms, the Sun, the sea and swings. And in the end, here we are, getting back to our usual life with sadness in our hearts and with nice memories of our new friends, excellent time we had and with hope that we will somewhere, somehow meet again.
Visit us, maybe you will also come with us next time.

EC Team (Umag): Nikola Samardzija, Nikola Bogicevic, Ilija Jovanovic, Violeta Stevovic, Pavle Petrovic, Milica Dimic, Dina Samardzic, Sanja Djordjevic i Dragan Stevovic

EU camp - "Art - Our common Language", Ohrid (Macedonia)

** International Youth Exchange under the name of "Art - Our common Language" took place in Ohrid (Macedonia), from 03.08. - 13.08.2006. in the frame of Youth Programme, European Commission. Participants of Youth Exchange were from 7 countries: Portugal, Albania, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey, Macedonia and Serbia. Main goal of exchange was to prove that art actually is common language of young people different nationality throw creative workshops: act, music, dance.
Final presentation took place on the last day of this exchange, in front of audience - guest of "Silex" hotel. On this presentation, participants shawed what they have been working, learned and prepared in the last 10 days.

EC Team (Ohrid): Vladan Petrovic, Milena Mitrovic, Bojana Salatic, Pavle Piperac, Nevena Petrovic, Tijana Panic i Marina Virijevic

Volunteer camp - Jastrebac 2006

** And again the Mount Jastrebac lived it's full life, but unfortunately just for a short period of time, only for 10 days. During that 10 days an international working camp was held, which was organized by "Education centre". Volunteers from our contry and abroad, during the camp, had repaired the dameged soccar court by the stream. Over 180 bags of litter was collected, platform by the court was cleaned, which were totaly owergrown with weeds. On the court itself new goals, basketball hoop and pillars for the vollyball were placed. In ralization of this camp we got excellent support from the city of Kruševac and many other companies. We would like to thank our donators (SEEYN, SO Krusevac, ("Dušan Petronijevic", "VP Dom", "JKP Kruševac" and "Kruševacput") and all young people of Kruševac which participated in accomplashing our aim - promotion of healthy life styles.

** From 29-30.June was training which took place in rooms of Educational center Kruševac.The official name was "Placement officer training", participants were EC staff and volunteers. Our guest was Lidija Buric from Volunteers center Zagreb.

In these two days main topics were:
-Basics of volunteers management,
-Rolls of placement officer,
-Recruitement of volunteers,
-Selection of volunteers.

See Your Neighbors - work camp
Jastrebac, Mountain 22 - 29. 05. 2006.

** In the frame of SEEYN Educational center Krusevac has organized "See Your Neighbors" - work camp. There were 12 participants who came from smaller communities of Serbia. The camp had educational character and participants were able to learn about pro-social values, team and team rules, non-formal education, PR and media, solving conflict situations, atc. Participants had task to organize peer workshops on same of these issues, in their own communities.

On 28.06.2006. in the Educational center office, by part of follow up from Winter work camp Jastrebac there was a creative workshop with topic: "Team and Group". Leaders of workshop were Vladan Petrovic and Milena Mitrovic, volunteers of EC, and participants were pupils of Krusevac high schools. During the workshop there were lot of games throw which participants were being entered in skills and pleasures of teamwork. Participants also got a promo-CD with presentation of EC and SEEYN.

Regional conference: Strategy Development to Increase the Youth Participation in Public Life, May 27-28, 2006, Kotor/Muo, Montenegro

** On May 27-28, 2006, representatives of 17 youth organizations from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Serbia and Montenegro convened in a small place Muo (near Kotor), Montenegro and discussed, analyzing ways to develop a strategy to increase youth participation in public life. The conference was planned to be a follow-up to the NPA SEE YIP annual regional meeting held in Herceg-Novi, April 28-30, 2006, when NPA SEE YIP partners presented their outline main activities. Outputs from the conference in Muo will serve as inputs for further elaboration of NPA SEE strategy 2007-2010. The conference is organized and managed by NPA SEE YIP partner Youth Initiatives for Human Rights (YIHR). The youth leaders focused on the following topics: The participation of youth in defining and resolving the problems of local importance; How well are the youth familiar with their own rights?; Regional experiences in the processes of dealing with the past and against discrimination (The role of young people in the process of dealing with the past); Discrimination at universities and the role of the youth – experiences a country from the SEE Region.

Norwegian People Aids - SEE Youth Initiatives Program Regional Meeting, April 28-29, 2006, Herceg-Novi

** On April 28-29, 2006, 33 representatives of 16 youth organizations from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia and Montenegro convened in Herceg-Novi (Montenegro) and presented their key achievements and challenges, and exchanged their experiences about work with NPA. The youth leaders and activists analyzed the position of youth and their prospects in their local communities as well as in the region as a whole in order to map the best possible ways of cooperation for enhancing youth participation in public life and all decision-making processes in the SEE region. The plenary evaluated all presenters and proposed the best ones to represent them at the International Youth Conference of all NPA youth partner organizations world wide, which is planned to take place in November 2006.