YVG Retreat

[Oct 29, 2007] YVG Retreat   The Hotel “Sumadija Best Western”, in the Belgrade suburb of Banovo Brdo, was the location of the YVG retreat, held from the 26th to the 28th of October 2007. The members planned and organized a work weekend, which yielded considerable results, vital for the future operation of the group.   The starting activity was getting to know what SWOT analysis is and...  more...

Budget for next year has been granted!

[Jun 29, 2007] YVG members were today notified that the group was granted a budget for the next fiscal year, which starts on July 1st 2007. The group has, thanks to its quick growth and adaptation,as well as early successes justified its existence and the trust of the World Bank Office employees who decided to support it in its future endevours.   The remaining money from the old budget was invested, as planned into printing the group and World Bank brochures which will be used in activities that...  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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...