Activities implemented in last period
PRONI Centre and Youth Association ENTER have organised first meeting for establishment of Cross-sector Team, that will during this project and after it continuously support programs of Youth Association ENTER. The meeting was organised in Bac, on the 31st of July 2012. The basic idea for this Team came out from previous great experiences and results of PRONI Centre’s Counselling Boards in youth info-centers in Osijek, Sisak and Vukovar, and its primar goal is to gather representatives of different public institutions and civil society organisations that can support youth participation and learning in society. The members of Cross-sector Team will jointly work on providing advices to Youth Association ENTER, to enable increase of its working quality and enhance transfer of information, experiences and expertises for different youth issues. On that way we expect that ENTER will improve existing and develop new program contents for young people. Due to fact, that ENTER is the only youth organisation in the municipality of Bac, this Cross-sector Team is the great source of valuable information, but also solutions for different questions and youth issues. Untill the end of the project, there will be at least 5 more Cross-sector Team meetings in Bac. Beside representatives of ENTER and PRONI Centre, several other people participated in the meeting, who have represented Youth Theater Bac, Municipality of Bac, Club of Democratic Youth, Youth Council, Radio Backa, Red Cross Federation and Agricultural Secondary School of Bac. Our aim is to create the Team that will work for the benefit of young people in Municipality of Bac, by encouraging and enhancing good and quality relations between Youth Association ENTER and local community.
On the same date, as well in Bac, PRONI Centre has organised first day of training program meant for learning about creation and maintenance of the web-site, that will promote Youth Club as the part of Youth Association ENTER. The main goal of this training day was to teach young people about possibilities of youth club promotion and contact making with young people in community by using new possibilities and new technologies, as well as to support their thinking about content and design drafting of the web-site. The 18 young people from Bac participated actively in this process. After this first training day, the following period is meant for creation of web-site, and at the beginning of October PRONI’s trainers will implement another two-days training program for the same group, to train them how to maintain their web-site.
In the period from the 2nd till the 7th of September 2012, PRONI Centre organised interesting program of Cross-border seminar for youth associations and youth clubs from Serbia and Croatia in PRONI Training Centre in Pirovac, Croatia. The Seminar was organised to train young people, members of youth organisations and youth clubs in Serbia and Croatia, on the following topics:
– Cooperation and Cross-border networking
– Development of cross-border cooperation
– Youth projects applications and procedures
– Implementation of youth cross-border projects
The importance of seminar content was recognised by youth clubs and associations, their employees, volunteers and members that participated in the seminar and expressed their needs and wishes to actively participate in cross-border project development in their associations. The training was led by PRONI Centre’s trainers, and 18 young people were actively participating in the process. Their joint work resulted with 4 cross-border project ideas, important for different youth issues in this cross-border region. After the discussion and youth exchange about youth problems in cross-border region, the participants decided to work on following youth issues: Prejudices and promotion of Intercultural learning; Enhance of voluntarism and social engagement of young people in cross-border region; Development of quality programs for young people in youth associations; Raising awareness about youth and culture; Promotion of democracy and human rights, especially youth rights; and Promotion of positive values through promotion of best practice examples of young people in the cross-border region. After this seminar, participants will continue to work on detailed project proposals for 4 project ideas, and apply for its financing. Also, already in this moment, the participants of seminar who were coming from 6 youth associations/clubs from cross-border region Serbia-Croatia, expressed their positive attitudes towards following project activities, especially for participation on Creative Youth Summercamp that will be held next year in the municipality of Bac.
