The Youth Social Entrepreneurship Program:

 

The Youth Social Program

 

The Youth Social Entrepreneurship Program, which will increase the knowledge, skills and resources of 5 400 youth people who are leaders or participants in youth-led programs'.

With generous support of King Gustaf V 90th Anniversary Foundation (Stiftelsen Konung Gustaf V:s 90-еrsfond) , BCYF is working on building capacities, skills and attitudes of Balkan’s youth leaders since 2002. Initial project “Good Leadership in Democratic Organizations”, for the period 2002-2003 ended up with leadership seminar in June 2003 in Ulcinj, Montenegro with trainers form Swedish Youth Council. more...

With guidance of Mr. Lennart Elbe, Secretary General and Board of Directors of King Gustaf V 90th Anniversary Foundation, in the following period BCYF has focused on leadership development in Macedonia by using expertise of peer Swedish NGO’s This very successful project enters into its fourth year of existence, showing long lasting impact on the youth leaders involved and their organizations.

Report 2004-2005
Report 2005-2006


Together for European Macedonia

 

Project “Together for European Macedonia” supported by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of the Kingdom of Norway with the assistance of the Secretariat for European affairs of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia offers non-formal education programmes in the following areas: computer courses and courses of English language. This project offers educational opportunities and access to new technologies to the children with different ethnical background, age 11-14, and learning in the elementary schools in municipality Cair in Skopje, Macedonia. more...

Supported by:

 

Royal Norwegian Embassy in R. Macedonia

Secretariat for European Affairs-Government of R. Macedonia

 

The NGO Youth Engagement Program

YouthNET

 

YouthNET Youth Exchange Program

 

YouthNET youth exchange is a phase of YouthNET-Creative Partnerships with SEE programme that happened in the period from 8th-13th May 2008, Khalkidhiki, Greece. The participants from the last two meetings of each YouthNET sub-groups (“Peace and Environment”, “Art and Culture” and “Tolerance through Local Participation”) met and had an opportunity to exchange their experiences, motivations and interests for the future work in the framework of YouthNET network. Concrete project ideas which will be implemented in the second half of 2008 and in 2009 were developed during this event. 35 participants from SEE and EU attended this exchange.

 

 

YouthNET STEERING MEETING, 5TH-7TH March, Vienna, Austria

In the period from 5th -7th March 2008, in Vienna, Austria the YouthNET Steering Meeting took place, where the partners of YouthNET project met and had an opportunity to look back in 2007 and to evaluate the meetings of the three sub-groups: “Environment and Peace”, “Art and Culture” and “Tolerance through Local Participation” in terms of developed achievements, successes and reflection on the YouthNET process in last period. Some other topics discussed were:

Organizing youth exchange between participants from all three sub-groups in spring 2008, institutionalizing YouthNET, establishing Memorandum of Understanding with Code of Ethics and planning next Mid-Term Meeting in October 2008.

You can find more news on YouthNET blog. http://youthnet.twoday.net

YouthNET has been active in South East Europe with a series of projects and activities since 2001. These initiatives have been supported by the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the European Commission and by all respective Ministries of Southeast Europe and coordinated by Interkulturelles Zentrum Vienna.
Since January 2007 a new project generation is on its way: "youthNET - Creative Partnerships with SEE". The three-year project is designed to strengthen regional cooperation in SEE through:

• Capacity building for South East European NGOs to strengthen them as partner and organiser of European youth projects and to foster regional ownership
• Development of regional networks and pilot projects in SEE in partnership with EU countries
• Promotion of the “Youth in Action” programme in SEE Three thematic sub-project groups from neighbouring SEE countries as well as EU partners are continuously working together for a 3 years period to cooperatively develop pilot projects and an action plan for regional cooperation.

The three general topics are “Environment and Peace” (Countries/Regions involved: Kosovo, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, EU countries), “Art and Culture” (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, EU countries), and “Tolerance through local participation” (Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece, EU countries).

All activities will be prepared by one of the partner organisations in close cooperation with young people from the area where the activity takes place. Young people’s organisations will be invited to contribute their ideas already in the planning process, to visit projects in the respective municipalities, to meet local people in charge of youth issues, etc. Exchange visits between the groups and common project activities offer opportunities for young people to develop their own follow-up projects with partners from abroad. Information, advice, and trainings will be offered on how to make efficient use of the new “Youth in Action” programme and other support available on national or European levels.

BCYF has been coordinating the sub-group Tolerance through local participation and during 2007 have organised 3 regional events with over 150 young people involved. Next meeting in planned for June 2008.

reports:

youthNET start up conference
Tolerance Through Local Participation- phaze 1

Tolerance Through Local Participation- Phaze 2