The training will bring together 28 youth workers/activists from Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Romania. The project targets young men and women (preferably aged 18-30) who didn’t before participate in international non-formal education events for young people and who are working on youth employment issues within their organizations, or want to start working on youth employment projects.

Working language of the training will be English and we expect all participants to have a good knowledge of English.

If you are a youth worker/activist from Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria or Romania and feel that this training course might be useful to you, we invite you to apply using the APPLICATION in English. Here is the official CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS with draft program of the training and other useful info.

You can send in your application until February 29th 2012, at the latest.

The training course will bring together 32 young men and women from Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Romania. The project targets young people who are long-term unemployed and is especially intended for those young people who never had a chance to participate in international events for young people.

Working languages of the training will be English and Serbian. Simultaneous interpretation service will be provided for those participants who don’t speak English or Serbian.

If you are a young person from Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria or Romania and feel that this training course might be useful to you, we invite you to apply using the APPLICATION in English. Here is the official CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS with draft program of the training and other useful info.

Call for participants and Application form are also available in other languages for the benefit of participants who don’t speak English:

Повик за учесници
Покана за участниците
Apel de participare
Poziv za učesnike

Aplikacija – мakedonski
Апликация – български
Cerere – romanesc
Aplikacija – srpski

Deadline for applications: April 30th, 2011.

Project is supported by the Youth in Action Programme of the European Union.

City Council of Leskovac positively responded to our initiative during December 2010 and official adoption of the amendments by the City Parliament is expected.

More information on this initiative can be found on www.narodnainicijativa.rs (Serbian only).

This training was organized within “Youth in Action” Programme and gathered 36 participants, youth workers, from 6 countries: Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.

We are going to organize this training because we feel that one of positive solutions to youth unemployment problem is entrepreneurship education of youngsters and that self-employment needs to be more seriously considered by youngsters, as well as those providing youth with services in area of self-employment support, as viable income-generation option and as an alternative to job seeking.

If you are from Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovakia, Hungary or Romania, and are a project manager actively and directly involved in youth self-employment projects at local, national, regional and/or international level, you can apply for this training by the 25th of January 2010.

Here is the official Call for participants and Application form.

THE APPLICATIONS PROCESS IS CLOSED!

We started this legislative project due to restrictiveness of the actual Law on referendum and people’s initiative and related regulations, as well as parts of the Law on local self-governance who deal with local people’s initiatives.

Above mentioned laws currently restrict democratic rights of citizens of Serbia to propose legislative solutions to legislators through so called “people’s initiatives”. Evaluating parts of concerned legislations which deal with the length of the signature’s collection process from citizens supporting a people’s initiative, as well as a required number of signatures that need to be collected, we came to the conclusion that current legislative acts are too restrictive, especially when compared to similar laws in numerous European countries. In reality this laws currently make it harder for citizen’s to participate in legislative roles.

Because of the above mentioned, and some other reasons, we plan to develop and propose to legislators amendments to the Law on referendum and people’s initiative, amendments to the Law on local self-governance (especially Article 68.) and various sub-legislative acts that regulate people’s initiatives. This will be done during 10 months period, until middle of 2010. Also, we plan to organize a public campaign that will introduce the project to a wider auditorium and give it a chance to participate in it.

More information on this project and activities organized are available at www.narodnainicijativa.rs.

Couple of photos from this training can be seen on our main page and all can be seen on our Flickr photostream.

The project is supported by European Youth Foundation.

These protests continuously lasted for 44 days and gathered many thousands of citizens of Leskovac and surrounding areas. The civic protests practically represented the beginning of the existence of People’s Parliament, the organization that shortly after the end of the protests, articulated voice of citizens that was expressed during these civic protests.

More on these civic protests can be learned on our Internet presentation

On this ocassion, through “Advancing tolerance and peace among young people in southern Serbia” project, People’s Parliament will work on human rights education of young people from southern Serbia, as well as building of tolerance and understanding between young people of different ethnic backgrounds.