Seminar "Youth Unemployment, Poverty and Marginalized"

The project “Youth unemployment, poverty and marginalism” is a 6 day seminar which will be held in Macedonia from 7th to 13th of June 2014 connecting 24 participants. The objectives of the seminar are: - raising awareness and informing about the situation with the youth unemployment, poverty and marginalism in the promoter's countries - finding creative ideas for prevention of increasing these issues The goals of the project will be reached by using non-formal educational methods such as discussions in small and big groups, role plays, team building activities, simulations and interactive presentations. After the participants will become aware of the situation each promoter’s country and are informed with statistics and details, they will work on creative solutions which will be presented by them on the public conference in front of local audience, on which will be invited representatives from ministries, local authorities, mayors and representatives from municipalities, students and student organizations, professors, high school’s representatives, unemployed people and other local and national NGOs. The conference will take place in Skopje as most suitable location for organizing such a big event as the biggest target group is located exactly in the capital, in order to give the possibility to the wider audience. The conference will be held on the last day of the activities of this seminar as closing of the project. The day before the conference the 24 participants will make a tour in several bigger and smaller cities where they will inform about the results from their work by spreading printed version of it and/or making presentation on info stands at faculties, main squares, municipalities with purpose to reach even bigger audience.   The entire conference and info events will be recorded by NGO Television of Youth4Media Network with possibility for live broadcast.