The Balkan Youth Forum was organized from 14 to 17 May in Skopje for the fourth time within the project Balkan Regional Platform for Youth Participation and Dialogue.

The program included presentations, debates, exchange of experiences and panels. The purpose of the Forum is to establish a regional network of civil society organizations and local authorities to strengthen youth participation, especially for young people with fewer opportunities. Over 70 representatives of CSOs, local authorities and youth workers participated in the three-day forum, all of them coming from different Western Balkan countries.

The forum included an open conference, creative workshops and study visits. The young participants learned about creative innovations in the field of youth participation through positive practices. The youngsters also visited the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia during the forum, where the two youngest Members of Parliament presented themselves in front of the participants and a tour of the building was organized.

The European Association for Local Democracy - ALDA is implementing the project Balkan Regional Platform for Youth Participation and Dialogue from 2015 in partnership with 7 local democracy agencies from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo and ALDA Skopje. The fourth and final year of the project is designed to continue the creating an enabling environment of youth active citizenship for achieving equality, well being and tolerance of diversity in Western Balkans.

The project is financed by the European Union through the programme for Civil Society Facility Operating Grants to IPA CSO Associations. This year, the project is supported also by the Western Balkans Fund. The Balkan Youth Forum was the first event that was organized with the direct support of this fund.

ZAKLJUČCI I PREPORUKE SA BALKANSKOG FORUMA ZA MLADE IZ SKOPLJA 2018

Balkanski forum za mlade održan je od 14. do 17. maja 2018. godine u Skoplju po četvrti put kao dio projekta „Balkanska regionalna platforma za participaciju i dijalog mladih“.

Program je obuhvatio prezentacije, debate, razmjene iskustava i panele. Svrha Foruma je da razvije regionalnu mrežu između organizacija civilnog društva i lokalnih vlasti kako bi ojačali participaciju mladih, posebno mladih koji nemaju puno mogućnosti i prilika. Preko 70 (sedamdeset) predstavnika organizacija civilnog društva, lokalnih vlasti kao i referenata za mlade iz različitih država Zapadnog Balkana učestvovalo je u trodnevnom forumu.

Forum je obuhvatio otvorene konferencije, kreativne radionice i studijske posjete. Mladih učesnici su učili o kreativnim inovacijama u sferi participacije mladih kroz pozitivne primjere (praksu). Mladi su, također za vrijeme trajanja foruma, posjetili Parlament Makedonije (Sobranie), gdje su ih dočekali sekretar i dva mlada člana Parlamenta, te ih „proveli“ kroz zgradu Parlamenta.

Evropska Asocijacija za lokalnu demoratiju – ALDA implementira projekat „Balkanska regionalna platforma za participaciju i dijalog mladih“ od 2015. godine sa 7 lokalnih agencija iz Albanije, Bosne i Hercegovine, Crne Gore, Kosova, Srbije i Makedonije. Četvrta a ujedno i posljednja godina projekta je osmišljena kao nastavak stvaranja pogodnog okruženja za aktivno građanstvo mladih, za postizanje jednakosti, blagostanja i tolerancije u različitostima Zapadnog Balkana.

Projekat je finansiran od Evropske unije (EU) kroz program „Civil Society Facility Operating Grants to IPA CSO Associations“. Ove godine projekat je podržan i od Fonda za Zapadni Balkan (Western Balkans Fund). Balkanski četvrti forum za mlade je prvi događaj koji je finansiran direktno od ovog Fonda.