August – participation in The Summer-camp for Youth – Canakkale, Turkey
Organizer and financing: The Department for Youth and Sports from Turkey
The program was designed for young people from South-Eastern Europe and its main objectives were to make Turkey known better, to stimulate communication between the young people in the region through trainings, trips and voluntary activities.
May – participation in the program Young People in Border Regions – Brezice, Slovenia
Organizer: The Center for Youth Brezice
Financing: The Youth Program oh the European Union
The objectives of the program were to introduce The Center for Youth Brezice and the other Slovene and Croat organizations to the participants coming from a diversity of NGO’s all over Europe; to find similarities in their work; to present the Youth Program; to encourage the participants to create and implement together common programs.
April – October – participation in The Citizens’ Observatory for Regional Policies (as a partner)
Organizer: The Third Europe Foundation Timisoara
Financing:
America’s Development Foundation, the program Regional Partnership for Democracy
United States Agency for International Development
Other partners:
The program analised in detail the way in which the DKMT Euroregion worked and its impact in cross-border cooperation. A Romanian-Hungarian-Serbian group of experts in public administration, education and cultural policies identified the problems of regional cooperation and proposed concrete solutions, resulting in a report called Civic Participation and Accountability. The aim of this final report was to demonstrate and encourage civic participation in making cross-border cooperation efficient. The report was largely distributed and presented to local authorities, civic organizations and ministries. It was the first civic initiative at a euroregional level in the three countries. The members of Free Minds Association participated in the implementation team, the technical staff, as well as in the group of experts. You can find the report at Documents on this web-site.
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