We’ve asked youngsters:

What is the concrete thing that you want to change in your surroundings?

Maybe that would be the they (don’t) participate in the life of their city and making decisions that are connected to them; maybe that would be a problem in their surroundings, that now lasts for a long time because they didn’t manage o find people who’d share their ideas; maybe they’re not sure how to do that in their own town...

An NGO “Hajde da...” from Belgrade and “Forum for Civil Action” (FORCA) from Pozega initiated an action that will include young people from Novi Beograd and Pozega, giving them the opportunity to find out how can they participate in life of their city, how can they cooperate with local institutions, NGOs, how can they plan and implement actions for improving young people’s life in their community.

By this program, we want to support the young in their efforts to contribute to development of the cities they live in, in order to create the society that will appreciate proactivity, initiative, cooperation, creativity...of youngsters.

Young people, aged 17-25, who will take part in this program, will have the opportunity to learn on the real examples of the youth groups from other parts of Serbia, to discuss with the representatives of local government, acquire knowledge and skills that are necessary for creating and implementing of small projects in local communities and, finally, they’ll be also financially supported in realization of their local actions.



METHODOLOGY AND PROGRAM DYNAMICS

Program is consisted of:
- education for active citizenship – that will take place in Soko Banja, August 7th-14th, 2005 for 40 young people from Pozega and Novi Beograd;
- planning and preparation of local actions - (September and part of October)
- realization of youth local actions in Pozega and Novi Beograd - (part of October and November)

Perticipants are obliged to actively participate during the whole project. Those who successfully complete the Program will get the certificate of the participation in the Program.