Training Course "Team Work Makes the Dream Work"
The training course took take place from 26.4. (arrival day) to 4.5. (leaving day) 2011 in Struga, Macedonia.

This 8-days training course for youth leaders and non-formal education facilitators will focus on team building and cooperation as one of the techniques for preventing and resolving conflict in groups of young people with diverse ethnical and social backgrounds. Main aims of the training course are to introduce the importance of team building and cooperation in order to avoid group conflict and promote inclusive and supportive group atmosphere, to introduce ingredients for effective teamwork, to share various team-building techniques and to develop individual skills for effective team building such as written and oral communication, leadership, team membership, planning and organizing skills, decision making, personal strength and analytical reasoning skills. Project gathers 29 participants and experts from ten countries which are fully or partly located in Balkan peninsula: host country Macedonia and Kosovo, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Turkey and Slovenia.

The following organizations were be responsible send 2 participants: Office for Youth Kladovo (Serbia), Warm Hand (Albania), Manisa Municipality Youth Center (Turkey) and following organization sent 3 participants: Lets Shine Together (Kosovo), Association for Democratic Prosperity (Montenegro), Regional Voluntary Centre (Romania), Youth and Civil Initiatives in the Rose Valley (Bulgaria), Youthnet Hellas (Greece), EpeKA (Slovenia).

Our participants were: Raluca Bucur, Corina Ududoi, Alexandra Jianu.
PARTNERSHIP - BUILDING ACTIVITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT on 13-18 May 2011
Poverty has been in the center of many problems in the recent years. Experience over the past decade has shown that "active" social policies can change this perspective and help achieve lasting reductions in poverty and exclusion. Active social policies help people overcome obstacles to getting a job, whether through training, providing childcare or helping match people to job vacancies. According to the statistics %47 of all unemployed persons globally are young women and men and 660 million young people will either be working or looking for work in 2015. Becoming owner of a micro or small enterprise could be an alternative for a young person who has an entrepreneurial mindset but also possesses some basic requirements like skills and knowledge. Awareness about this career option, and the given enabling environment for enterprise creation, play a crucial role for a successful start-up.

We think that collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders in the field of youth entrepreneurship and the close cooperation with the governments and the nongovernmental associations are needed to stimulate the Youth Entrepreneurship. We hope to come with nongovernmental organizations which are interested in youth employment and entrepreneurship. Our final aim is to make future projects after our partnership building activity. We also hope to have the opportunity to exchange our experiences and create good networks that could work in the future. This course will be the opportunity to enhance exchange, partnership and co-operation. We are going to use formal and non-formal education methods with an intercultural dimension.

The activities to be done will concern about the knowledge, skills and motivation of the participants. We believe that giving chance young people to show their desires and skills with other young people by sharing the same atmosphere and showing that they can create new things even in a short period of time this project will encourage our participants to be more active in their real life. The activities will be done with the help of experts and youth workers.

The training course also aims to give partner organisations the opportunity to enhance exchange, partnership and co-operation. By discussing the experiences of the participants from different countries we hope to create chances to establish face-to-face contacts and discover new opportunities for further and long lasting relationships between different countries.

2nd International Youth Meeting: European Citizen - Where are you? on 23 - 31 May 2011, Belgrade, SERBIA
With the "2nd International Youth Meeting: European Citizen - Where are you?" we are going to establish a mire stable fundament of active citizenship, participation and non-formal learning. We will bring together project workers, youth leaders, facilitators and other interested youngsters from more than 20 different European countries, from programme countries of the EU and neighbouring partner countries from SEE, based on the experiences made in summer 2010 in Germany.

In this spirit, the main aim of the youth meeting is, generally, to support the idea of an active European citizen. We have created a colourful programme, taking place on several floors, which includes a wide-ranging supply of thematic points. Those points are developed and selected in such a manner that they are covering different conditions and connected topics concerning an active European citizenship. However, the theoretical inputs and the discussions supported by political decision-makers and experts in youth work should not only encourage the participants to think about the corresponding topics, the supreme aim is always to derive improvements for the praxis of realising participation projects in the sense of the YOUTH IN ACTION programme of the European Commission.

Regional voluntary Centre participated by means of its member Mrs Carmen Tufagiu.