Introduction

[Mar 10, 2007] Welcome to the website of the Youth Voices Group Serbia! This web portal is primarily oriented towards young people but also towards all others who want to become more informed on the situation regarding youth in Serbia.  We were created as a group to raise the position of youth to a higher, better level.  We share the common goal of putting forward burning youth related questions,...  more...

First “Youth Voices” (YVG) meeting held in Serbia

[Mar 24, 2007] The first meeting of the Group was held on Saturday, 24th of March 2007 at 13h in the World Bank office in Belgrade. It was attended by the group co-ordinator Ivan Vejvoda and all the group members who previously passed the selection criteria.   The meeting, which lasted around 2 hours served as a good starting point for the members to get to know eachother, as well as a preperation for learning more about World Bank projects in Serbia, as well as making the first plans regarding...  more...

Presentation of the World Bank report „Serbia – Labour Market Assessment Report“

[Mar 29, 2007] The YVG members attended the presentation which was held on the 29th of March 2007 at the Tanjug Press Centre in Belgrade.   This report represents the most complete analysis of the labour market in Serbia conducted in the last ten years. It was done by local and foreign experts in co-operation with the Republic Institute of Statistics. The report deals with the overall analysis of the market factors that influence employment, and a special section concerns young people. This section...  more...

Second YVG meeting held

[Apr 13, 2007] The second YVG meeting was held on the 13th of April 2007, at the World Bank office in Belgrade. The members picked tri primary topics, covered by the World Bank Programme in Serbia that the Group will focus its activities on: education, employment and energy efficiency.   Mr. Andrej Popovic, a consultant in the Private and Financial Sector of the World Bank in Serbia informed the members about the Bor Regional Development Program (which deals with removing the ill effects that the...  more...

Third meeting – anticipating the big meeting...

[Apr 20, 2007] The third meeting of our group was held on Friday the 20th of April 2007 at the World Bank Office in Belgrade.   It mostly dealt with preparations for the upcoming meeting with the other YVG members in Istanbul. Our members worked hard in the meantime on preparing their presentations so that they would represent our country as best as they could.  more...

ISTANBUL - Youth Voices Groups Retreat

[Apr 30, 2007] Istanbul was home to the Youth Voices Conference on the 28th and 29th of April, where young people from Europe and Asia got a chance to meet. Over 100 participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Moldava, Georgia, Turkey, Kosovo, Albania and Serbia met for the first time at a conference of this sort in order to trade experiences and open up roads to future colaboration.   The conference consisted of two parts. The first part included talking about the the activities of the...  more...

Director of the World Bank Office in Serbia at the YVG meeting

[May 11, 2007] Mrs. Carolyn Junger, the chairman of the World Bank Office in Serbia was a special guest at the Youth Voices meeting held on the 11th of May 2007.   Mrs Junger got a chance to get better acquinted with the work of the group, ideas and plans of its members. Some of the themes were: youth employment, energy efficiency as well as the representation of youth in the media.   Clarifying the EE programme, Mrs. Junger pointed out that it achieves energy savings up to 44% and pays for...  more...

Rome Conference

[May 21, 2007] The World Bank, in partnership with the Italian Development Cooperation and with the participation of the International Labour Organization, organized a Conference entitled "Young People in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: From Policy to Action" that took place in Rome, Italy, on May 21-24, 2007. The Conference was managed by the Social Development Team in the Sustainable Development Department for Europe and Central Asia Region (ECA) of the World Bank, and was sponsored by the ECA...  more...

Report on Rome conference

[May 21, 2007] In Rome from the 21st to the 24th of May 2007 the World Bank and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized a conference entitled “Youth in Europe and Central Asia – From Policy to Action”. The conference gathered about 400 participants from over 20 European and Asian countries that included representatives from international organizations and governments. During the opening...  more...

Youth Voices Group IN ACTION! --- Valjevo - Petnica – Ivanjica – Katići

[May 21, 2007] The first concrete action of the YVG, mainly connected to energy efficiency but also with a look at education and employment went very successfully and so we bring great results from this little trip!!   The group members first visited Valjevo and met with the current situation „in the field“ regarding employment and education issues as well as those with keeping energy efficiency in this region.   Next up was a visit to the Petnica Research Station situated several...  more...