Wishing to go for international training course? Become EVS (European Voluntary Service) volunteer? Discover other countries and cultures through youth exchange or training course? Do not know where to start?Come on Saturday 17 March, 2012 to EU Info Centre for interactive presentation about Youth in Action Programme. We will start at 11:00 and during 2…
Volunteer Centre Skopje was a partner on international training course in a place near Bucharest, Romania. Three representatives from VCS were present on the training course, with main subject on “How to make better understanding of the position Mentor and how to train better mentors for the needs of the organizations”. More than 30 young…
The training course Unite unite Europe was about discovering the European citizenship and the benefits from it. We had a chance among other activities to make a short research and get in touch with local communities and to speak with them about the main topic. It was really interesting to hear different opinions and points…
Gender inequality, mobility among students, diet and nutrition, human rights, LGBT community are some of the key words of social campaigns on which are now working participants of our local project Bridging Divided Communities by Youth Work. For more information please check out the project website. Next week on Tuesday will join VCS team 3…
The exchange in Struga, on the occasion of the carnival in Vevcani, gave us many experiences, including the opportunity to learn how to work in a team, improve our English language, as well as the opportunity to learn about other languages. We also met many people from different parts of Europe, with whom we became…
VCS, in 5 years of accreditation for EVS volunteers, has sent more than 70 domestic volunteers, in the countries all over Europe. The most open and interested countries for EVS volunteers from Macedonia are the countries from the near surroundings, like Bulgaria and Slovenia, the central European countries, like Germany and Poland, and the Baltic…
Here I met more international people. At the beginning, I had to check on the internet information about this small country, I only knew that the capital of Macedonia is Skopje, but since I didn’t pronounce it correctly, suddenly I got really interested in reading and searching for more information about the Balkans. Few weeks…
Luckily, we got our way through the airports , and to city Adana where the coordinator of the project should have waited for us in order to take us to the terminal destination. While we were waiting, covered with “we aren’t from here “ facial expressions that showed us up (as the coordinator mentioned later…
Curiosity, discovering new cultures and the need to search for something new are some of the reasons that made me go to Poland. I think any country on Earth has its own beauty and has something unique to be seen. Wrocław - the city where I live now is the fourth largest city in Poland.…
On 7 January started youth exchange Youth for Culture – Back to Vevcani 2012. For six years young people coming from all around Europe have an opportunity to take part in one of the oldest Macedonian tradition – Vevcani carnival which is being celebrating for more than 1.400 years and this year is not an…
5th of December - the international Volunteers Day, celebrated everywhere in Europe. For this occasion Volunteers Centre Skopje had several promotions of volunteer activities, as well as big party where many local and international volunteers had the opportunity to meet, to show off their volunteer work and hobby trough pictures, videos, juggling, DJ-ing and other…
This text is inspirited by one international training course that I was participating in. Three countries, three cultures from Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary from 18 to 24 of November, with their warm clothes met together in Subotica, Serbia to increase their knowledge and skills about Youth in Action Programme. “What do we want to do?…
In the occasion of the International Volunteers Day - 5th of December, Volunteers Centre Skopje organize several events in order to promote the volunteerism and increase the number of volunteers. The agenda is following: Thursday - 01.12.2011 13:00 - Promotion of youth programs offered by VCS and possibilities for EVS volunteering (location: the lobby of…
Today, Wednesday, 30th November, EVS volunteers from VCS, Koen ter Heedge, Awa Badji, and the EVS volunteer in the SOS children village, Emma Lindberg were guests on the morning program on the Student FM Radio 92.9, the official radio station of the University “St. Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje. On the life broadcast, the volunteers…
Hello people, I am Tanja and I am doing EVS in Lisbon, Portugal. From the begging I was extremely excited about the possible opportunity to participate in EVS. My first impressions were amazing, hospitality of the organization, starting life in new city, sharing apartment with people from different places. I have great experience working with…
The main goal of the training was to contribute to developing the quality of support systems for youth by increasing capacities of organizations and their youth workers to prevent youth unemployment through career information and guidance. However, the training was not only about working hard, finishing the sessions, and going to sleep. It was not…
YIA! YEAH! Those were the first and final words of the participants of the Youth Exchange YOUTH EXPLORES AND HANGS OUT that took place in Novi Marof from August 20 until August 27. It started with 25 people from 5 different countries (Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Portugal and Macedonia) who gathered in a little town 60…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is glad to announce that in October 2011 is starting new local project „Bridging Divided Communities by Youth Work“ which will be realized with support of Embassy of the United States in Skopje.The project Bridging Divided Communities by Youth Work will provide an opportunity to 30 young people in age 17 –…
However, now the question is HOW we connected that much for only 6 days? Through energizers, games, workshops, coffee breaks, birthday celebrations, yoga, meditation, sauna, theatre, singing, dancing, lunch preparation, swimming, or basically through CREATIVE activities, we really did connect! The “magic” that appeared among us was discontinuously widening. However, if it wasn’t for the…
During the event Take Your Chance! Become a volunteer! the participants will have an opportunity to take part in panel discussion, presentations prepared by local as EVS volunteers, to see several short clips and movies created during youth exchanges and training courses organized under Youth In Action Programme as to take a look at photos…