The period of growing up is not only a preparation for adulthood as it used to be a “one-way phase« complete and finalized, but youth is becoming a kind of life style, the style that corresponds to the current position of today’s society. Formal education is not the only subject that plays a big role…
Every country today is battling the danger of everincreasing waste that is the byproduct of our lifestyles. Exaggerated consumerism, “the style” of the western world, leads to waste overload of the environment, overexploitaton of natural resources, social inequality, less social responsible society and worsening mental health of individuals. These problems are more and more recognized…
The project »Contagious creativity« is an EVS project that involved three organizations: Youth center Trbovlje, Primary school Ivan Cankar and Jugendkulturarbeit e.V. From 1. 2. 2017 till 30. 6. 2017 we hosted one volunteer that worked in the primary school four days per week and in the youth center one day per week. The main…
Nowadays, when we are facing with refugee migrant crisis and their consequences and states close their borders and part of the European Union is surrounded by barbed wire and fences, we are aware of the importance of young people to spread tolerance and intercultural dialogue, interculturalism about the problem of discrimination. Both in our country…
The »European Street Games« youth exchange hosted 18 young participants from 3 countries: Portugal, Romania and Slovenia. Throughout 6 days, 9 boys and 9 girls in 4 mixed groups worked on developing innovative board games with the objective of getting to know the process of entrepreneurial creativity and with the goal to create prototypes of…
»Because we are different« was an international youth exchange with the following partners: Mladinski center Trbovlje (Slovenia), Udruženje državljanov “Stopama pobednika” Lazarevac (Serbia) and SOU Goce Delcev from Valandovo (Republic of Macedonia). The youth exchange involved 24 young participants aged 13-16, accompanied by four youth leaders. The idea about renewed partnership came from the Municipality…
