“Think Green” to avoid the “Nightmare”

Students from the technical secondary school "Gostivar" applied at home what they had learned from the trainings in Greece. Two groups of students from the municipal secondary technical school "Gostivar", representing Volunteers Centre Skopje, participated in trainings dedicated to climate change through Erasmus+ program organized in neighboring Greece. Seven students were part of a training…

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Seven days to understand “Human Diversity!”

From the 28th of June to the 6th of July, Volunteers Centre Skopje organized an Erasmus+ training course “Human Diversity!” about religious tolerance and human diversity in Struga, Macedonia. The project brought together a diverse group of participants from Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and Poland, as well as people from the Somali community living in…

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Annual Report 2022

How did 2022 look like through our eyes? We hosted a total of 60 international volunteers who participated in different activities in Skopje. We were partners in multiple local and international projects throughout Europe and sent almost 300 locals abroad to exchanges, trainings, and volunteering projects. Our team organized 45 public events for the community,…

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National workshop: “Leadership skills of WBL coordinators and assertive communication”

The first of the last three activities of this year for the regional project “Quality assurance for the work of the Business Liaison Coordinators” was successfully implemented in the past two days in Skopje. The workshop "Leadership skills of WBL coordinators and assertive communication" is intended for teachers from vocational schools across the country. The…

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Skopje you will be clean

It may seem pretentious to you, but the hygiene in our city is really high. The parks, streets, and lawns around Skopje are not what they were many years ago: full of all kinds of garbage, leftover food, empty bottles, discarded packaging… Let’s not lie, it is far from a metropolis as befits a European…

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Round Tables in Shtip and Bitola

Volunteers Centre Skopje has successfully organized and realized 2 Round Tables with working title: “Raising Public & Private sector awareness on the relevance of Work-based learning”, for the Eastern and Pelagonia regions. The Round Tables, 28th in Shtip and 30th November in Bitola, besides the school coordinators, also brought together representatives of the VET schools,…

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The second National workshop for networking of Business Liaison Coordinators

Volunteers Centre Skopje organized today the second National workshop for networking of Business Liaison Coordinators, as a part of the regional project “Quality assurance for the work of the Business Liaison Coordinators”. The event was held in Ragusa 360 in Skopje and it was attended by almost 60 school coordinators, directors and experts from Macedonia.…

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When young people are in charge

International Youth Day - August 12th was celebrated with a two-day event at the "Biljana Belicanec" House of Culture in Kisela Voda. We have combined great energy, quality ideas, progressive thinking and a great program of workshops, films and hanging out. The rain symbolically stopped just as we started the event and gave the youth…

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Купена возачка може да чини живот

Кај кандидатите за возачи при стекнување со возачка дозвола, особено младите лица кои се во тек со истата, се соочуваат со предизвици. Како најизразен предизвик и аномалија е корупцијата. Таа најчесто е изразена преку мито, кое е барано од страна на комисијата која одлучува дали возачкиот испит е положен или не. Сепак не смееме да…

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“PeerAct” workshop

Sign up for “PeerAct” workshop today and make friends, while learning something new! For whom? Everyone interested in the topic. Age: 14-25 years old Where:  Primary school "Dr Zlatan Sremec", Skopje When? 28.06 - 1.07.2022, 12:00-16:00 or 5.07 - 8.07.2022, 12:00-16:00 (choose your dates!) What do we expect from you? Full availability for the days…

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Skopje SOUP – For strong community

Are you tired of waiting for someone else, mainly politicians, to solve the problems that burden you in everyday life? And you want to take action? In doing so, to establish a close relationship with the community? Then the “SOUP” concept is ideal for you. It is a model that was used a few years…

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The second part of the unforgettable experience. Youth exchange “No Hate Speech: Step 2” in Ljubojno.

After 10 years Volunteers Centre Skopje is back with its project in the region of Prespa. From 11th to 20th of June in Ljubojno, Macedonia VCS is organizing the Erasmus+ project, youth exchange “NO Hate Speech: Step 2” with over 30 participants coming from Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Portugal, Denmark and Latvia. The aim of the…

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NEW CHAPTER OF THE PROJECT “SCHOOL MEETS BUSINESS”

  On Monday the 16th of May, at Hotel Continental, Skopje, VCS provided logistical support and coordination for the Kick-Off conference of the project “School meets business” implemented by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and research, in collaboration with the Macedonian Ministry of Education and Science and the Center for Vocational Education and…

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Youth Centers – Now and Immediately

With the third and last activity in Skopje (the first two were in Antwerp and Bremen), we completed the project "Neighborhood of youth centers in Europe" within the "Erasmus+" program of the European Commission through the Belgian National Agency. Thirty youth workers and representatives of municipalities from eight countries and partners in the project last…

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Skopje SOUP – For strong community

Are you tired of waiting for someone else, mainly politicians, to solve the problems that burden you in everyday life? And you want to take action? In doing so, to establish a close relationship with the community? Then the "SOUP" concept is ideal for you. It is a model that was used a few years…

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Annual Report 2021

Another year in VCS passed by and we are looking back to sum up what has been done, what new has come up and what we have achieved. After the pandemic outbreak in 2020, the world started to move more dynamically again last year, bringing us projects, travels, and meetings face to face with the…

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Volunteering is changing our lives and our common society

The 15-th anniversary of Volunteers Centre Skopje was a great occasion to organize a panel discussion to promote the volunteer spirit, but also to point out the anomalies in the process, the legal framework, and the necessary support from local and state institutions. We chose the headquarters of the EU Delegation in Macedonia, i.e. "Europe…

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