Young People - Visions and Policies (2012)

Project contractors: ISI and "Friedrich Ebert" Foundation (FES)

Implementation period: June - October April 2012

Source of funding: FES

The project was divided into two parts:

"Monitoring Youth Policies"

1 training (2 days), with 30 young people involved, representing the Youth Association in their respective regions. The aim of the forum is to present up-to-date information on national youth policies and the priorities of the Youth Association within the Bulgarian Socialist Party /BSP/, to discuss the ways to implement them at regional and local level, and to give participants opportunity to exchange best practices.

Dates: June 16 and 17, 2012 - Northern Bulgaria.

"Visions of Young People"

2 trainings (3 days) - North and South Bulgaria, each involving 30 young people, representatives of the Youth Association /YA/. The program includes training on topics that YA will use in order to carry out its policies, and which are part of YA: Education, Employment and Youth Policy.

For each of them, in the process of learning, proposals will be made in order to update the program of the Youth Association as well as suggestions for activities and campaigns.

Dates: (1) July 13, 14 and 15, 2012 - Southern Bulgaria, and (2) September 14, 15 and 16, 2012 - Northern Bulgaria.