I’m happy I got this chance, cause after all the excitement of being in Macedonia for eight months it would be a hard tide to just get back home not knowing exactly what to do next. For me it feels like I’m sort of postponing the actual coming back this way. In fact the only…
The goal of this training course was to gather 30 participants from 13 different countries and to educate them informally with knowledge and skills to work in the field of gender imbalance in the society and in the workplace. We learn how to act in community as a leader, how to communicate with other people…
In March 2013 Volunteers Centre Skopje implemented with support of the Youth in Action Programme of the European Union training course "Change Laboratory: Second Floor" that provided the participants an opportunity explore social entrepreneurship and develop new business ideas... And this video is providing insight in the training course and its activities... Enjoy it...
Description of the Workshops:Title: Brand YourselfDate: 11 June, Tuesday, starting time 17:00Coca Cola, Nike, McDonald’s- you can love them, you can hate them but for sure you know them as millions of people all around world. But have you ever been wondering that you are BRAND also? If yes and if you would like to…
Breaking stereotypes, prejudices, creating new friendship crossing the boarders is the key message of youth exchange Let’s dance for crossing borders organized by Swedish organization Viksjöforsbaletten with support of Youth in Action Programme from 2 to 9 June in Viksjöfors, Sweden. And Volunteers Centre Skopje is glad to be part of it. The youth exchange…
In June 2012 Volunteers Centre Skopje implemented with support of Youth in Action Programme partnership building activity - "PBA: Better Cooperation: Better Europe" which provided participants coming from all around Europe and opportunity to build new partnerships and develop ideas for future projects. And we are more than glad that one of the ideas born…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is glad to announce that will take part in training course "Woman for Planet" organized by Epeka Slovenia in June 2013 in Maribor – European Capital of Youth 2013. The main goal of the project is to informally educate the participants and provide them with necessary skills and knowledge on the field…
The activities started with team-building activities where we had to learn more about the interesting local facts of the town of Judaberg. After, we took part in brainstorming about characteristics of a good leader, intercultural learning activities and a game called Dignityland, where we needed to make a sustainable social policy for our imaginary society…
For the third time the International Citizen Media Award is announced by The Federal Association of Citizen and Education Media (BVBAM), the European Youth4Media Network Association and the Citizen Center Bennohaus in Münster, Germany. Creative and committed film and radio makers are invited to create their own report on the topic of “Citizen Media for…
The training course about learning to design social entrepreneurship ventures named “Change Laboratory: Second Floor” gathered more than thirty people from fourteen countries and took place in the beautiful city of Struga. These people were more than curious to know the way how can you match the two different ideas of profit and contribution. I,…
Hello people! I'm Frosina and a week ago I returned from a year volunteering in Sisak, Croatia where I was EVS volunteer in "Local Democracy Agency", and my task was to promote volunteering. Since about a year I can say that it was always nice, I laughed and I cried, I thought about life, about me,…
Youth Exchange "Gamestorming" was implemented by Volunteers Centre Skopje with support of Youth in Action Programme in autumn 2012. The main aim of this project was to develop creative, teamwork and leadership skills of the participants coming from 8 countries (Albania, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Bulgaria and Macedonia) through activities based on sharing traditional…
I am a “defender” of the formal education, I don’t really believe that the learning process under non-formal education is more efficient, or actually efficient at all, but I still believe that somehow I learned thing which weren’t supposed to be a useful knowledge, but more a set of skills which allows me to evolve…
The event started with the entrance of the guests in lobby of the universal hall, where there were the exhibition of the pictures and the art craft of the children of the Daily centre and CSI Nadez. After, the guests and the audience moved up stairs in the Mala Scena and we begin the event…
Goran Alachki and Bajsa Arifovska at the day of the spring invited 16 children from the Centre for Social Initiatives "Nadez" and from the Day care Center for street children to attend professional musical workshop with them in Pioneer Hall, Skopje. This professional workshop, proposed by Goran Alachki, his music school and Bajsa Arifovska, was…
Despite the rain today, we managed to achieve the second part of the promotion of the campaign “Vote, Let your voice be heard!!!”, as part of the project “Upgrading the youth involvement in the political processes”, in cooperation with the Coalition of Youth Organizations SEGA and NED (National Endowment for Democracy). The second park of…