Monday, September 8, 2008

Youth Center Brežice - Slovenia

Hello everybody,

my name is Nataša and I am coming from small town called Brežic, Slovenia. I work in Youth Center Brežice.
Youth center Brežice is an organization that operates within the local community and aims to ensure young people associative ways of socializing, stimulates participation, volunteer activities and informal education of the youth, contributes to social reciprocity and social integration of the youth, emphasizes mobility and international cooperation of young people, provide information and ensures an autonomous place, where young people can go. Youth center Brežice functions also in fields of communicational education and awareness, multimedia, informal education, ecology and humanity causes. Youth center also provides free public access and free use of technology and equipment, it provides all the necessary infrastructure for creative and innovative work on the fields of e communications, Internet, digital audio and video production. There is also a public access computer Server system for educational, scientific, cultural and artistic contents, together with e communications. Regular activities of our Youth center are: informing and counselling, concert organisation, exhibitions, literary evenings, lectures of travellers travelling around the globe, local youth culture support, children and vacation programmes, international activities (Youth in Action Progamme, Leonardo da Vinci), etc.
In Youth Center Brežice, I am responsible for many activities: promotion of youth programmes in the municipality of Brežice (e-points), preparation and implementation of center's activities in the field of intercultural dialogue, promotion of the Youth in Action Progamme among youth and youth organisations, support of new youth ideas regarding various activities and preparation of the projects. My work includes daily dealing with culturally diverse groups.

You can see some photos of our Youth Center in some projects and activities.

Greetings from Slovenia!

Natasa.

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