Belgrade Youth Office was opened on 25 May 2009, thereby concluding a process which commenced with the adoption of the National Youth Strategy.
The Youth Office is part of the City Administration and has the status of a special organisational unit responsible, for creating and implementing youth policies at Belgrade city level.
This is the first time there has been a special unit of the city administration to deal with youth policy, which is based on a model borrowed from EU and regional countries. Currently we are in the process of researching problems facing young people at Belgrade city level, following which, we will draw up a local youth action plan to be put before Belgrade City Council for adoption. This process is important as it enables us, through one strategic document, to identify the problems facing young people and to systematically track their solution.
The Office is run by a young team who together with volunteers have a coeval approach to problems. We function as an umbrella organisation in relation to municipal ones and offer them assistance through financing their local projects. we have daily communication with young people whether they are looking for information or seeking support for a project. In doing so we also represent a link between young people and the city administration, which was one of our objectives when forming the Office.
We believe that identifying and solving the problems of young people in our society is a stepping stone for society's progression and development.
Should you require any information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
- BELGRADE YOUTH OFFICE
Kraljice Marija 1 / XIX
11000 Beograd
SERBIA
tel: +381 11 715 7351, 715 7352, 715 7353
e-mail: mladioffice@beograd.gov.rs
Belgrade Youth Office
Belgrade Youth Office is opened on 25th of May 2009. The Office is the link between Belgrade youth and Belgrade City Administration.
The Youth Office is a part of the City Administration as its special organisational unit.
Belgrade Youth Office is established within the framework of National Youth Strategy implementation process.
The Youth Office is in charge of creation and realization of youth policy at the Belgrade city level.
It is conceived and organized according to model proved in practice of EU countries.
It is also in charge of creating local youth action plan and its passing through Belgrade City Assembly.
Belgrade Youth Office is also an umbrella organization for local youth offices in Belgrade municipalities.
Belgrade Youth Office will provide information and all sorts of service to young people of Belgrade in accordance with its possibilities and within the frame of its responsibilities.
Kosta Andrić, Youth Office Manager
Kosta Andrić is born in 1983 in Belgrade. He finished 1st Belgrade High School and then obtained bachelor degree in International Studies at University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. During 2007 he attended professional development program in International Tribunal in The Hague and he worked in lawyer’s office afterwards.
He was engaged in youth policy as assistant in nongovernmental projects related to reduction of youth poverty and empowerment of youth entrepreneurship. He is one of the authors of research about youth poverty, published with recommendations in April 2005. He was awarded scholarship from Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS).
He is fluent in English.
Work
Jobs and action fields of Belgrade Youth Office:
- Organized approach to the problems of young people
- Affirmation of working with young people
- Support to young people in their cooperation with
- Educational and cultural institutions
- National employment service
- Organizational units of the City Administration
- Nongovernmental organizations
- Active engagement of young people in social processes
- Providing information to young people
- Providing information to the others about young people
- Informal education of young people
- Logistic support to realization of youth projects
- Linking young people in their activities, among them and with the others
- Affirmation of volunteering of young people
- Creating model of youth volunteer work camps
- Equal position of young people in the society
- Encouragement of youth creativity
- Evaluation of achievements of young people
- Improvement of leisure time quality
- Empowerment of security of young people
- Preparing of the City Youth Action Plan
- Coordination of youth offices on the territory of the City of Belgrade
- Other jobs in accordance with the National Youth Strategy of Republic of Serbia
Cooperation
Belgrade Youth Office cooperates with everybody interested in realization of interests of young people:
- City Administration
- Government institutions in charge
- Nongovernmental organizations
- International organizations
- Students’ societies
- Academic institutions
- Companies, agencies
- Media
- Donors
- Scholarship providing institutions
- Humanitarian organizations
- Cultural institutions
- Alternative and informal groups
- Distinguished individuals
Encouragement
Belgrade Youth Office encourages young people of Belgrade:
- To make decisions and to take responsibility
- To be active, creative, constructive
- To create society of equal opportunities
- To realize their ideas, plans, visions
- To inform themselves about social processes, situations and events
- To improve their education permanently
- To communicate with each other and with others
- To spend their leisure time in constructive manner
- To appreciate their lives and lives of others
- TO TAKE PART IN THE PRESENT
- TO CREATE THE FUTURE
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