INDIAN YOUTH FORUM

Indian Youth forum represents a programme that offers young people to finally satisfy the needs that are recognised as most important in one place.

Objective The purpose of the Youth Forum is to facilitate: 1. Youth voices input into Our Common Humanity in the Information Age 2. Youth activists focusing on UN values & agendas 3. Creative exchange of ideas, solutions, projects 4. Opportunities for new ideas to emerge 5. Networking with one another 6. Networking with leaders in various fields 7. An electronic forum reaching university students and the general public 8. Informing students and alumni about UN issues through college news media.

VISION:

Developed democratic civil surrounding in which young people are key actors of decision making and development process and other relevant civil society processes.

MISSION:

We are a group of young activists which, with active involvement of target group, by using all existing resources, works on uniting and development of creative potentials of young people and increasing the level of youth activism and engagement in key processes in local community

AIMS OF YOUTH CENTRE priorities:

youth education and development of various skills, (mainly with acknowledging the principle of peer education, youth for youth learning) membership networking and development of voluntarism development and support of youth initiatives and campaigns development of local cultural potentials and intercultural exchange working on increasing the knowledge of youth about processes of involvement in EU processes, and encouraging them to take an active role in these processes

PROGRAMMES:

Education (courses, seminars, trainings, workshops) Basic themes: PCM and writing project proposals, European integration processes, democracy, tolerance, processes of building civil society Publishing civil society development culture (organizing and promoting cultural events)

MAIN ACTIVITIES of Youth Centre:

Informing youth about relevant issues, events, institutions; publishing and distribution of info material Education of youth (courses, seminars, trainings, workshops) Youth projects and initiatives, campaigns Networking and partnership building with NGOs and relevant institutions, both in national and international level Organization and promotion of cultural events according to recognized needs of youth

BRANCHES
Info centre

Gathering and distribution of information relevant for youth in Nis Enabling and empowering of free information flow, in order to help young people and provoke their activism, initiatives and projects

Voluntary Centre

Promotion of youth mobility by international activities, with the dimension of informal education such as youth exchanges, volunteering, youth initiatives and trainings. Involvement in programs of promotion, education and implementation of defined project ideas

EU club

Support from local level to EU integration process Education of youth about EU and integration process Education about legal, social and economical principles of EU, as well as about good and bad practice

Centre for promoting of youth international culture

Cooperation with Embassies and Cultural Centres of other countries in Serbia in order to establish cultural exchange and cooperation Exchange of young artists and implementation of projects for affirmation of nonaffirmated young artists Presentation of film, music, art work of young artists

TARGET GROUPS
Target group primarily consists of young people in Ni (age 15-30) but all the other interested people are welcome. Start-up activities will be focused on students of University of Nis and pupils in secondary schools, as well as young people who are out of University, primarily unemployed ones. Our promotional efforts will be directed to all young people with no exceptions.

ACTIVISTS OF YOUTH CENTRE

Project teams of young experienced youth activists for each branch of the Youth Centre are established for launching the program. Young Ambassadors, chosen in the processes of establishing Info Point, have already taken an active role in the work of Youth Centre. Volunteers and interested young people from local community will be involved in work and capacity building and strengthening the organization. On this program, LDA has support of Local Government and ALDA network.

BACKGROUND

Recent researches (there were only few) have shown that young people in Serbia, are inactive, apathetic, apolitical. Although this is commonly known, there is a lack of relevant information about all aspects of life of young people, both in terms of quality and quantity. Because of that, one of the first activities of newly established Youth Centre will in fact be a research about this matter. The data that we will focus on will primarily be related to their interest in voting on elections, involvement in youth initiatives, projects and campaigns, about their activism and fields of their engagement, events that they organize and take part in, sources of informing, active use of internet, what is the field of information relevant for youth in which they recognize the biggest lack, how they spend free time... This information will help as to realize the problems of youth and to mobilize them to work together on problem solving. We want to involve as many people as we can and to solve recognized problems by projects, step by step. We believe that this approach is more efficient and productive than the one in which target group is only the passive beneficiary of the project. In this way, young people can launch their own initiatives, so we hope to have multiplicative process... Insufficient and nontransparent distribution of relevant information for youth causes their low interest for important questions and inactivity, that results in missing significant opportunities for self education and development and unused potentials. Mission of Youth Centre is therefore: enabling and strengthening of free flow of information, with aim to help the youth and to start and develop youth activism, to support youth initiatives and projects. In that way, we would develop long term aim strengthening of local community potentials by getting new, young, active and innovative people for leading development process.

PROPOSED PROJECTS

BCIF - Balkan Community Initiatives Fund 15.11.2007. rejected Partnership for Education and Community Development (PECD) Program in Nis, Serbia 14.12.2007 rejected Project - I want to know

AIMS

to make future students become aware of the decision making process about their future profession active participation and interactive cooperation of professors, parents and experts (pedagogue and psychologist) in helping students with making the decision to contribute to the decrease of prejudices about faculties and professions

SHL - Schler Helfen Leben 15.1.2008. rejected Project - A place for all: capacity building for youth centre

Proposed project is focused on establishing and empowering Youth Centre that will respond to recognized most important needs of youth in Nis. It will be consisted of 4 branches info, volunteer and intercultural centre and EU club. They will have constant, (every-day) and also each one of them will have some special and one main activity, as a result of education of youth Ambassadors. Those activities will have the aim to promote activities of Centre and branches, and to increase level of transparency in local community. The main goal of all activities as mobilization and promoting youth activism.

European Youth Foundation 1.4.2008. rejected Project International youth meeting Share and compare

The objectives

To identify and understand the state of the indicators of the national youth policies To define main problems and obstacles on the way of development of the national youth policies To recognize and exchange the good-practice examples and other possible solutions To make a network and partnership of regional youth NGOs, and ensure cooperation on future youth projectsTo exchange the knowledge about Youth in Action and other national and international youth programmes and donors

World bank 1.4.2008 rejected

The main purpose of this proposal is to provide graduates (future students) with all the relevant information, from the first hand, coming from the students themselves, and encourage their independent secondary researches and getting additional information. By promoting and developing this alternative source of information, we want to make a contribution to developing a culture of career management, and active participation in the decision making process (when deciding what to study). Also, we would like to contribute to fulfilling of other project aims that are: To encourage and ensure active participation and interactive cooperation of professors, parents and experts (pedagogues and psychologists) in helping students with decision-making process To contribute to the decrease of prejudices about faculties and professions.

Ministry of youth and sport 15.4.2008 in process

Training course for youth ambassadors Team work Active citizenship Civil Rights and responsibilities Youth participation on local level Interculturality Tolerance City live performance - silent theatre

Youth in action Action 3 - Youth in the world 3.1 - Cooperation with Neighboring Partner Countries Youth Exchanges 30.5.2008 in process
Project InterculturArt

The InterculturArt is an exchange that will be organized during March 2009 in the city of Ni, Serbia, and will gather together 20 young artists active in the field of engaged art coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Italy and Serbia, in the framework of a Youth in Action exchange. It will aim at strengthening a sustainable dialogue and a deep cooperation between young people from these countries, focusing more on cooperation between young artists from the Balkan region, as well as support them as local promoters of intercultural dialogue and tolerance within their respective communities.

Ministry of youth and sport 13.6.2008 in process Project One place for all

Proposed project is focused on establishing Youth Centre. Youth Centre will have 4 sectors Sector for nonformal education, Sector for promotion of the youth culture, Info centre and EU club. All sectors will have everyday activities. Three special activities will be realized through implementation of the project as a result of the education of the youth activists. That special activities will be used in order to promote Youth Centre and to improve range of visibility of the program in local community. The main goal of all activities of the youth program is promotion of the activism and volunteerism among youth and youth mobility.

Human Resources

YOUTH ACTIVISTS

Miodrag Mici 0638814677 Mixa0804@yahoo.com Vladana Jevti 0642966627 bekicanish@hotmail.com Petrovi Dragana 0645348648 dragpetr@eunet.yu Mina Ivovi 062421214 Mina.zabica@yahoo.com Stefan Jovanovi 0643840940 Ste.jovanovic@gmail.com ore Stankovi 0643255001 stankovicdjordje@beotel.net Ana Jovanovi 0645242025 jovanovicanna@yahoo.com Ivana Cvetkovi 0641164193 Ika.smellycat@gmail.com Aleksandra Jovi 062390730 Bambina.aki@gmail.com Andrija Krasi Krasa__90@hotmail.com Duan Dimitrijevi 0631933011 Dimitrijevic_dusan@yahoo.com Jelena ivkovi 0643229491 Boaring4me@yahoo.com Sasa Treni 0643045189/14 Kosta Janic Kostajanic@yahoo.co.uk Dragana Jankovic 062 246-830 gaga.dj.89@gmail.com Ana Stevanovi 0611860576 Dragoslava Markovi 0644679503 Dragoslava.markovic@gmail.com

STAFF

Ana Popovi 0642929412 misspopovic@gmail.com Milena eli 0642036045 milena.celic@gmail.com Duan Stojadinovi 0648596223 dusancic@gmail.com Ivana Ilic 0642009661Ivanailic.nis@gmail.com Saa Marinkov 0643302523 sasamaar@hotmail.com.uk Boris Milojev 0642659127borismilojev@gmail.com Bojana Vujanac 063449048 missfaustic@yahoo.com Milica Doljak 0643233349 Milica.dosljak@gmail.com