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International training in Novi Sad successfully implemented

Association “People’s Parliament” implemented from 15th to 21st February 2010, an international training called “Cross-border cooperation on youth entrepreneurship development and promotion”. 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.

Youth in action Training – Call for participants

Cross-border cooperation on youth entrepreneurship development and promotion is international training which will gather youth workers active in the field of youth self-employment. This 5-day training (excluding travel days) is going to be organized in Novi Sad, Serbia, from 15th - 21st January 2010.

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.

People’s initiative

People’s Parliament began implementation of a national project “People’s initiative”, in cooperation with several NGO’s from Belgrade, Pozega, Novi Sad and Negotin. 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 [...]

Advancing tolerance among youth from South Serbia

During September 2009 we’ve organized a training in Vlasina Lake in Serbia, called “Advancing tolerance among youth from South Serbia”. This training gathered 25 youth of different nationalities from South Serbia. Couple of photos from this training can be seen on our main page and all can be seen on our Flickr photostream. The project [...]

10 years since civic protests in Leskovac

On July the 5th this year, it will be exactly 10 years from the beginning of civic protests in Leskovac. 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 [...]

Support of the European Youth Foundation

For the fifth time European Youth Foundation decided to support our work. 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 [...]

Call center continues to work – 0700 400 700

Due to interest expressed by the general public and a need for more effective implementation of the Law on free access to information of public importance, Call center of the Coalition for free access to information continues to operate. Citizens dialing the number of the Call center, 0700 400 700, will be able to obtain [...]

More than 600 young people participated in trainings on youth entrepreneurship during last 17 months

Implementing our youth entrepreneurship development program in South Serbia, so far we’ve organized more than 130 half-day trainings and business informatics courses for potential and existing young entrepreneurs, visited by more than 600 young people. Besides these young people, dozens of other young people participated in other activities we organized, such as different study tours [...]

Draft law presented in the National Parliament of the Republic of Serbia

During Thursday, March 19, we’ve presented to the Culture and information Committee of the National Parliament of the Republic of Serbia, one of two laws we’ve submitted to the Parliament and for which we collected signatures from more than 36 000 citizens of Serbia. The Law on amendments of the Law on free access to [...]

Certificate of attendance given to 500-th user of Center for youth entrepreneurship!

In premises of the Center for youth entrepreneurship in Leskovac and Vlasotince, certificates of attendance were given to last users of trainings on youth entrepreneurship which brings number of users of our youth entrepreneurship program up to more than 500. Each of the users who was given a certificate went through a series of 4 [...]