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Creative Writing as a tool for Community Change
With the training course ‘Creative Writing as Tool for Community Change’, we aim to increase competencies of youth workers and educators to explore ways of using creative writing as tool of addressing community issues and challenges and moreover as a tool giving an opportunity to the members of the community to express their concerns, ideas…
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CALL FOR NEW INITIATIVES
DO YOU HAVE AN INITIATIVE THAT WILL MAKE THE WORLD A LITTLE BETTER? Are you between 16 and 28 years old, enthusiastic, willing and able to improve your community? More specifically, do you have an idea or an initiative that could fit within these areas: Education and lifelong learning Social and Community Issues Environment and…
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Kickoff: European Youth at the Frontlines of active citizenship, a Roadmap towards a collective “South-North-East-West” Momentum
Starting from 12th till 19th of March 2020 VCS Skopje was hosting the Planning Meeting for the Erasmus+ KA3 European Youth Together Project: “European Youth at the Frontlines of active citizenship, a Roadmap towards a collective “South-North-East-West” Momentum“. VCS Skopje is honored to be the Coordinating organization of this project. Co-Creating future opportunities tailor-made for…
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Welcome Dogukan, the new volunteer from Turkey!
Merhaba! I’m Doğukan, 23, from Turkey. I live in Cappadocia (air balloons, fairy chimneys…) in Turkey. I study primary school teaching at Nevsehir University and I have 1 semester to graduation. I realized in my first year at university that people can do crazy things just his/her youth. So, I leave my comfort zone and…
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“To make an elderly person happy is the noblest act a young person can ever do!”
Diary of an ESC Volunteer It’s been already 3 months since my arrival in Málaga, Spain for an ESC project “Let’s Gardening with the Elders” and all I can say is wow, besides the beautiful Malaga I am also in love with this project. I wish I knew where to start describing, the elderlies really…
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Welcome Jules, the new volunteer from France!
Здраво! My name is Jules Striffler. I come from Alsace, a border area in France neighboring Germany and Switzerland. I studied first a Bachelor in Languages & Interculturality. Then, I decided to go for European Studies with the Erasmus Mundus joint Master of Arts in Euroculture. So far, I have been studying or working in…
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Students can change society through creative writing
How creative writing can be used as a tool to change society’s consciousness was a topic of discussion among students at the Faculty of Philology – Department of English Language and Literature at “St. Cyril and Methodius” University in Skopje. Elena Badaloska and Isabela Celevska presented to their colleagues the impressions, experiences and knowledge…
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YOUTH 19,27: Building new strategies for youth
Last month, in Agueda – Portugal, 32 youth workers from eight countries, including Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Macedonia, discussed the creation of new youth strategies. During the interactive lectures was discussed about the absence of youth strategies that are key to enhancing social dialogue and cultural diversity. Several European cities, including…
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“Neighborhood of Youth Centers in Europe”: Bremen
It is me writing again, and this time is about the summary of impressions on the second part of the Study Visit which took place in Bremen – Germany, implemented within the Neighborhood of Youth Centers in Europe project. Firstly, I would like to say that it was a really great feeling to meet again…
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“Creative writing as a tool for community change”
Training course “Creative writing as a tool for community change” Struga, Macedonia 09.12.2019 – 17.12.2019 27 enthusiasts for creative writing from 9 different countries, namely, Macedonia, Romania, Italy, Spain, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the UK, took part in the training course “Creative writing as a tool for community change” which was held in Struga,…
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Contact Making Seminar in Poland
From 1 to 8 December 2019, a contact seminar was held in Zebrzydowice, Poland, under the title “From EVS to ESC: Experimental Learning in Volunteering” organized by Fundacja Europejski Instytut Outsourcingu. The main aims of the project were: to train youth workers to gain knowledge and tools to effectively work with youth, including youth with…
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