The region’s keystone youth event will promote democratic unity and strengthen pro-democracy discourse and convictions among youth in the Western Balkans region and beyond, allowing them to connect and reconnect, learn from one another and gain greater understanding of political movements and civil society around the world.
The region’s keystone youth event will promote democratic unity and strengthen pro-democracy discourse and convictions among youth in the Western Balkans region and beyond, allowing them to connect and reconnect, learn from one another and gain greater understanding of political movements and civil society around the world.
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Skopje Youth Summit is for young people who are unafraid to challenge the status quo, who are passionate about building peaceful, democratic societies across the world and who are curious to learn and exchange knowledge with others.
Skopje Youth Summit is for young people who are unafraid to challenge the status quo, who are passionate about building peaceful, democratic societies across the world and who are curious to learn and exchange knowledge with others.
Institute for Young Women Development (Zimbabwe)
Glanis Changachirere is the Director of Institute for Young Women Development and the founding Coordinator of the African Women Leaders Forum. She is a Member of the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy. Glanis is an activist. She is a recipient of the 30 Under 30 Democracy Award from the National Endowment for Democracy for her pioneering work on young women’s political participation in Zimbabwe. Glanis holds a Masters in International Relations (Gender) from the University of Birmingham and Masters in Public Policy and Governance from Africa University.
Compromiso Compartido (Venezuela)
Oscar Patiño, 26 years old, Venezuelan lawyer & master's degree in Public Management. He is human rights activist, he was the general coordinator of one of the most important NGO´s in Venezuela Called Un Mundo SIn Mordaza and now he is leading his own NGO called Compromiso Compartido (Shared Commitment). Now, this new NGO has his first project, an artistic project in two slums of Caracas studying and promoting reconciliation and the rebuilt of the social fabric.
Sbunker (Kosovo)
Agon Maliqi is a policy analyst, civil society activist and media writer from Prishtina, Kosovo. He is the creator and co-founding editor of sbunker.net, an Albanian language opinions and analysis blog which gathers a younger generation of academics, think tankers and civil society activists. Mr. Maliqi's main writing interests include regional and international affairs, the state of human rights and democracy in the Balkans and socio-economic development in Kosovo. Professionally, Mr. Maliqi has during the past ten years worked mostly as a consultant on these issues with a range of international organisations. Mr. Maliqi was just recently in Washington D.C as a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). He graduated in Political Science and European Studies from the American University in Bulgaria in 2006, and obtained a Master’s Degree in International Development Policy from Duke University (USA) in 2012.
The Forgotten Children of War Association (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Dealing with the Past - Recognizing power in pain
Activist and politician (Kosovo)
Saranda Bogujevci
Regional Youth Cooperation Office
Đuro Blanuša is the Secretary General of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO). Previously, he served as a Senior Advisor at the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Serbia in the Sector for International Cooperation and European Integration. He has a long track record of activism in civil society and the non-governmental sector with Save the Children and youth organizations. Mr Blanuša has been representing Serbia in the European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ). He is a member of various regional and European expert groups in this field, and he was from the very beginning engaged as the governmental representative of Serbia in the process for the establishment of RYCO.
Youth Cultural Center
Младински Културен Центар Скопје
Dimitar Vlahov st, 15
Skopje, North Macedonia
mkc.mk
MKC (Mladenski Kulturen Centar) is a youth cultural institution with a long history – it opened in the year 1972. Today, it has become a gathering spot for alternative youth, offering a wide range of high-level concerts, exhibitions, performances, festivals and promotions, giving both younger and older audiences in Skopje an opportunity to broaden their horizons.
