This year’s topic is “Work–Life–Balance. Reconciling Work and Family Life”. The current developments in the economic, technological and social area lead to an increasing importance of work–life–balance, equally for companies, employees and the general society.The submitted products can show positive and negative examples of the topic. The different perspectives (companies, employees, the general society) can…
From the secrets of public speech to writing stories, training course gives opportunity for gaining knowledge through working with professionals, wonderful thing that has а great advantage. Despite personal building of ourselves, all participants will try to share the gained experience with other people in their countries. Especially interesting was the second day of the…
The opportunity to meet new people and a lot of original ideas from the participating countries was great thing! We also had the chance to get to know the local reality, mostly focused on the human rights and children rights. We could all agree that we improved our team work skills and also the knowledge about…
Reflection from Kristina:It is really wonderful how sometimes, when we least expect it, we get so much more than we bargained for out of some situation! When, for example, we are expecting to get a ‘seven’ at some exam, and you get an ‘eight’, or when you meet a new person, and end up being…
If the answer is YES, than join our journalism workshop that will take place next Wednesday, 26th of March, starting at 17:00, in the VCS office. The workshop will be run by our EVS volunteer from France, Sonia Barge and as she says: - “I was a student in one of the best French journalism…
This time we are all here in Struga to learn and share information and skills connected with alternative ways for education. The beginning is to get to know each other, to make a team or a family that is able to cooperate and work together. We must adjust to the environment we ourselves provide to…
So now we know each other but what is the non-formal education? Through different activities and discussions I think we got the point, we shared our experience with this type of education through our lifetime and we wrote down 15 advices how to make a good NFE. The participants got excited about whole the idea…
During the training- energizers, sessions, team work, hanging out- I gained knowledge in life that you cannot learn from books. Rather, you read living books. We had ten of them on our training library and me, Sanja and Filip were chapters in the Macedonian one, merging with the Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Bosnian, Turkish, Estonian, German,…
Training course NFE: Let the Young People Learn implemented by Volunteers Centre Skopje with support of Youth in Action Programme of the European Union started on 1 March in Struga. After getting to know each other through various activities including creating own heroes the participants started to explore non-formal education and tackled the challenges of…
I am Borjanka from Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. Currently, I’m EVS volunteer on a project in Arad, Romania, which I found through ’’ Volunteers Center Skopje’’. The EVS project is called ‘’Outdoor Alternatives’’ and it lasts from February to July. Our activities include working in a forest, in the ‘’Corcubeu’’ school where we teach children…
Did you ever hear about baby's language? Volunteers Center Skopje in cooperation with "Baby Signs Belgium" is promoting the mini brochure, which you can find for download bellow. If someone is intrigued by the content of the brochure and is interested to learn more, please contact our partners "Baby Signs Belgium" on the following e-mail…
Looking for EVS? We are offering one EVS place in Arad, Romania starting from 7. March 2014. If you would like to get to know more about this EVS opportunity contact us: vcs_contact@yahoo.com....French Conversation Workshops in VCS are starting by first meeting on Monday 17 February in our office located at Emil Zola 3/2-3 closed…
We had 20 minutes review and speech on the radio; together with my friend and coordinator Gjoko Vukanovski about the program of the European Commission called “ERASMUS +”, which contains almost the same actions and activities from the last program for young people, called Youth In Action. This Erasmus + contains 7 different subparts containing…
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2. Is it possible to detect lie? Workshop I won’t teach you how to be professional liar, I won’t teach you how to recognize one and being deceived never ever again. But you will get know what microexpression are, who has them, how they can be used. We will try to read our faces and…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is getting ready for training course 'NFE: Let the Young People Learn' that will take place from 1 to 10 March in Struga and provide an opportunity for participants coming from Caucasus, EU and Balkan countries reflect on issues connected with non-formal education, it's recognition as well as it will give the…
He gave me enough arguments to question my beliefs. Thanks to him, and my instructor for transcendental yoga, I realized the truth. Not seeing and ignoring the truth doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. Also I have seen a lot of videos and I made the biggest change of my life, becoming a vegetarian which…
Hello! My name is Gordana and I am a volunteer in Malaga, Spain. I work as a volunteer in the museum of science Principia. This project enabled me to improve my knowledge of Spanish and to improve my knowledge in science like biology, chemistry, physics etc. My work here is to explain the experiments and…
Arriving for the first time in Istanbul before three months ago I was "yabancı" and my first destination where I should go was "Balat". I came in Istanbul as "yabancı", but since I entered in the narrow streets of this historic İstanbul neighborhood I have experienced some strange feelings of shared energy and identity,... I…