Slovenia
Website of the Politeia Member from Slovenia: Youth Centre of Dravinja Valley
Website of the Politeia Member from Slovenia: Youth Centre of Dravinja Valley
The Youth centre of Dravinja Valley carries out activities in the field of informal education, culture, encouragement of positive rivalry, informing and consultancy, voluntarily youth work, mobility of the young (European Youth Programme), encouraging of moral and ethical principles, programmes about informing and preventing addictions, personality growth, encouraging activities in youth organizations, publishing, and other free time activities (craft, workshops). Some of the planned activities for coming year:
Since the situation of Roma people in Slovenia is not encouraging, this article is divided into two parts – part one describes the problems of Roma youth with regard to the educational system and the second part describes the problems considering political participation.
From 15 until 20 January 2007, the Youth Centre of Dravinja Valley, in Slovenske Konjice in the east of Slovenia received 42 participants from 27 different organisations. The seminar “Come together” was dedicated to create contacts between these organisations. At the end of the week nine project ideas were presented.