13. november 2006.

COUNCIL OF EUROPE and EUROPEAN COMMISSION has jointly announced that ”HAJDE DA…” GROUP from Belgrade was one of the winners of the video competition in the framework of DOSTA! - Campaign for fighting prejudice towards the Roma. One episode of the animated serial It’s so unfair! won the third prize at this competition as the best short video. The award was given to Mr. Marko Pejovic at the official ceremony, which took place in Strasbourg, on November 7th (more information could be found at http://dosta.org/?q=node/111) The animated cartoon It’s so unfair! (http://www.hajdeda.org.yu/unfair/index.htm ) is a unique educational tool for peace/intercultural education of primary school children and youth, which addresses the phenomena like prejudice, discrimination, violence and tolerance. This serial was developed as a part of the teacher training program The Alphabet of tolerance, that „Hajde da...“ Group have been successfully implementing in primary schools in Serbia, for the past 6 years (www.hajdeda.org.yu/aot/index.htm). As an example of good practice for education against discrimination at school, UNICEF included this serial in its national wide programme „School without violence“. Last year “Hajde da…” Group created also a manual on how to use the serial in education, and plans to train more teachers and youth workers for its implementation in 2007, thus continuing to support the process of development of more tolerant and inclusive society.

10.november 2006.

On 9.11.2006 representatives of Group Let’s... have in the premises of News Belgrade Municipality presented our new project called “Supporting the development of Pupils parliaments on New Belgrade Municipality”. The project is designed to respond to the needs of New Belgrade high-school parliaments and it is realised with the support of New Belgrade municipality and with the financial support from City of Belgrade. On the presentation there where 40 representatives from all 6 high-school parliaments as well as professors, students, members of school staff, headmasters and, Aleksandar Cordaš a member of New Belgrade Municipality Council. At the presentation we also selected the first high-school is going to be the user of the program 2007-2008, and that is the High-school for Tourism in New Belgrade.

The OBJECTIVE of the project is to strengthen the structure of high-school parliaments in New Belgrade, to develop the capacities of parliaments members (negotiation skills, team work, communication, action planning, change management etc) and provide resources for actions of the parliaments in schools.

Mid-term meeting for EVS in Belgrade, Serbia,
10. 02. 2007.

For any questions, applications and detailed information please write to traning@hajdeda.org.yu

Group "Hajde da..." is organizing Mid term training for EVS volunteers (YOUTH Programme) that are in SEE region. .

The training will take place 9 th February 2007, Belgrade, Serbia.

Mid-term meetings provide volunteers with an opportunity to evaluate their experience so far, in addition to meeting other volunteers from different projects throughout the host country.

The Mid-term training in Belgrade will be done by "Hajde da..." trainers for YOUTH who have extensive training experience both at national and European level. For more references about previous YOUTH training courses done by our trainers, see the reports on the SALTO website at http://www.salto-youth.net/seeEVS/ or visit "Hajde da..." group webpage at http://www.hajdeda.org.yu/youth/index.htm#1

For any questions, applications and detailed information please write to traning@hajdeda.org.yu

23. october 2006.

Since October 2006. «Let's...» Group has been implementing the programme «Alphabet of Tolerance» in three new towns:

* Cokot ("Desanka Maksimovic"),
* Niška Banja (“Ivan Goran Kovacic”) i
* Kragujevac (“Jovan Popovic” i Home for Children without Parents “Mladost”).

The teacher training will be finished till November 2006. After that, participants will conduct workshops with children.
Also, participants will be educated for implementation of animated serial «It's so unfair! », as an educational tool for intercultural education.


In the end of the project (February/March 2006.) there will be organized school actions with the aim to promote values of cooperation, mutual respect and diversity.

Trainers are: Jelena Jovanovic, Majda Ponjavic, Stanislava Vuckovic, Sanja Markovic and Marko Pejovic.

Evaluator of the project is Biljana Lajovic, and coordinator Suzana Krstic.

Project is financially supported by Norwegian People's Aid.

12. October 2006.

Pre-departure Training in Belgrade,
28/29.10.2006.

For any questions, applications and detailed information please write to traning@hajdeda.org.yu

Group "Hajde da..." is organizing Pre-departure Training for EVS volunteers (YOUTH Programme) from Serbia and Montenegro.

The training will take place 28/29th of October 2006. in Belgrade, Serbia.

Pre-departure training gives volunteers an opportunity to talk about their expectations, develop their motivation and obtain information on their host country. Pre-departure training is compulsory for all volunteers.

The Pre-departure training in Belgrade will be done by "Hajde da..." trainers for YOUTH who have extensive training experience both at national and European level. For more references about previous YOUTH training courses done by our trainers, see the reports on the SALTO website at http://www.salto-youth.net/seeEVS/ or visit "Hajde da..." Group webpage at
http://www.hajdeda.org.yu/youth/index.htm#1

For any questions, applications and detailed information please write to traning@hajdeda.org.yu

For any questions and applications please write to traning@hajdeda.org.yu

EVS On-arrival training
The main objective of the on-arrival training is to introduce volunteers to their host country and their project environment.
On arrival training supports volunteers in responding to (inter)cultural and personal challenges, allowing volunteers in the region to get to know each other and build a mutual support network. The On arrival training helps volunteers think about their EVS as a learning process and should provide them with opportunity to define their learning objectives.

In case of the On-arrival training, timing is of utmost importance. Ideally, the on-arrival training is organized within 4 weeks after the arrival of the volunteer in a form of a residential course. If the on-arrival training takes place long time after the arrival of the volunteer, it will appear as a meaningless appointment.

For more information and references about previous On-arrival training courses done by our trainers, see the reports on
the SALTO website at http://www.salto-youth.net/seeEVS/
or visit "Hajde da..." Group webpage at http://www.hajdeda.org.yu/youth/index.htm#1

10. August 2006.

This project was organized by Group "Hajde da.." and it is financially supported by the European Commission’s YOUTH Programme.

The training took place at Fruska Gora, Serbia, July, 08th- 15th, 2006.

Participant were form Albania, Belgium, Macedonia, Netherlands, Slovenia and Serbia and Montenegro.

July, 06. 2006.

From April till June 2006. Group "Hajde da..." Training Team has been also working for:


* CARE International

* Kulturni Centar DamaD, Novi Pazar

* Ministry of Justice i UNDP

* UG "Ukrštanje", Novi Sad

“HAJDE DA...” GROUP has been implementing the “Alphabet of Tolerance” program since 2001, in primary schools throughout Serbia. The main idea of this program is to educate school personnel (teachers, psychologists, pedagogues...) for successful running of workshops for children, aiming to:

• help children to achieve basic knowledge and experiences of tolerance to differences
• support cooperation and mutual respect within classes.

We’re happy to announce that, so far, we’ve been collaborating with 36 schools; there are 285 teachers/ psychologists/ pedagogues who attended the training and approx. 3000 children participating the workshops.

Since the year of 2005, an animated series “Down With Injustice!” was added to the program, as an educative tool for working with children. The series deals with phenomena such as prejudices, discrimination, violence, but also tolerance and cooperation within the school context. As far as we know, this is the first cartoon for peace education in our country.

This year we made another innovation: at the end of realization of the program, schools that have been included in the project have organized actions, aiming to promote values of cooperation and tolerance. Between January and June of 2006, the four schools have been included in the project: “Svetozar Markovic” (Leskovac), “Dimitrije Tucovic” (Kraljevo), “Velimir Markicevic” (Majdanpek) and “Servo Mihalj” (Zrenjanin). Group from Banatsko Karadjordjevo (schools "Nikola Tesla" and "Petar Kocic") begin their education in spring.

School action in Majdanpek dealt with conflicts between pupils of “Velimir Markicevic” and the neighboring school. The main outcome was a play, that metaphorically treated this issue and the actors were pupils from both schools. There was also held a football tournament, before the play, and each of the participating teams was composed of children from the two schools. Moreover, some days before the main event, children had an opportunity to create drawings subjecting “The World I’d Like To Live In”, that were exposed in the Youth Center on the day of action.
In Kraljevo, it was meant that the school action shell include the youth’s favorite way of expressing, so there was an open call for all students, inviting them to express their non-violent messages through graffiti. Painting of the school yard started on 5th of June – World Environment Day.
Group from Leskovac organized a workshop in Roma Cultural Center, for children for all 8 primary schools in Leskovac. They created posters subjecting more tolerant relationships among people. The posters left in the Cultural Center, as an exhibition of children’s ideas.

Evaluation* at the end of the project showed (these are some of the results):
• 94,6% of teachers claim that participating in the “Alphabet of Tolerance” program helped them to solve negative social situations within their classes (violence, discrimination etc.) more constructively.
• Children’s ability to recognize discrimination increased from 63%, before the program, up to 90% after its implementation.
• Before the workshops, 38% of children claimed that they’re friends with all the other pupils from their class (i.e. that they do not exclude anybody), whilst afterwards this percentage rose up to 58%.
• Asked if they’d accept in their class and/or school children of different origin and/or customs (nation, language, religion...), the percentage of acceptance was high from the start (77,00%), but it increased even more – up to 85,89%.
• When asked if they’d mind to be best friends with a child of different origin and/or customs (nation, language, religion...), after the program, there came to an advancement of more than 13% of children.

* Evaluation is based on groups from Majdanpek Kraljevo, Leskovac and Zrenjanin

Project is supported by Norwegian People's Aid

jun, 2006.

During the last week of May, in Kastoria, Greece, there was held a youth exchange "One More Step". Partner organizations on this project were: “Citizens in Action” from Greece, “EcoART” from Bulgaria, “XENA” from Italy, CPM from Slovenia, “Rubikon” from Macedonia and “Hajde da…” Group from Serbia.

Zeljka, Ceca, Ljuba, Nikola i Jelena had an opportunity to meet and make friends, learn and explore, enjoy natural beauties and hospitality of our Greek hosts, along with their peers from Slovenia, Macedonia, Italy and Bulgaria.

Some 30 young people dealt with the problem of pollution of Lake of Kastoria and environmental issues in general, trying, at the same time, to motivate local youngsters to overcome their initial passivity and move them towards joint action for saving the Lake.

Having in mind that this exchange was held within European Commission’s YOUTH Programme and thanks to the fact that the young from six European countries have been living together in scouts’ hostel for the seven days, this was also an outstanding opportunity for intercultural learning and meeting customs and traditions of different cultures and nations.

We arrived back to Belgrade with marvelous impressions and memories, new friends’ contacts, lots of photos and a wish and plans to gather together again next year.

“Hajde da…” Group (Group “Let’s…”) from Belgrade & partners, organize, in July, Action 5 Training course „LEARNING TO LEARN”, Improving the quality of Youth Projects by stimulating learning at all levels

This project is financially supported by the European Commission’s YOUTH Programme. YOUTH Programme offers to young people in general and young people with fewer opportunities in particular, non-formal ways to learn, with a strong focus on intercultural learning as means of increasing tolerance in European societies and personal growth of the people participating in youth activities.
This training course will be focused on non-formal educational tools for stimulating, creating space and supporting learning among young people through youth projects – both among the participants of the projects and organizers of the activities.

The training course will take place in Belgrade, on July, 08th- 15th, 2006.

Eligible countries: Albania, Belgium, Macedonia, Netherlands, Slovenia and Serbia and Montenegro.

Deadline for sending the Application Forms is May 17th, 2006.

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Project: "NFE In Europe - A Step Towards Integration On Serbia And Montenegro Into Common European Educational Space"

On February 17th, 2006, in "Metropol" Hotel in Belgrade, organized by "Hajde da..." Group and Forum Syd Balkans Programme, there was held a Dialogue Day, entitled "Streams Of Future Development Of Non-Formal Education - Another Step Towards Its Recognition In Serbia And Montenegro". This event was meant as a place for dialogue between representatives of relevant local and regional organizations, Ministry of Education and Sports of Republic of Serbia, Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Montenegro, National Employment Service, formal-educational institutions, media etc. The guests were welcomed by Ms. Mia Sidran (FSBP), Mrs. Stanislava Vuckovic (“Hajde da..." Group), Ms. Mirjana Milanovic (Ministry of Education and Sports of Republic of Serbia) and Mr. Dragan Popadic (Belgrade University). Leaping from international towards local level, we were discussing importance of non-formal education, linked to current European trends and the situation in Serbia and Montenegro in the field, as well as its connections with youth policies and youth work. Recognizing their institutional, organizational and personal interests, all the key actors expressed their willingness to cooperate on further affirmation, quality advancement and development of non-formal education. There was also promoted a Set of Recommendations, as one of main and most important outcomes of the project "Non-Formal Education In Europe - A Step Towards Integration Of Serbia And Montenegro Into Common European Educational Space". These recommendations stress out the importance of social partnerships, standardization of non-formal education and quality assurance in the field. During the Dialogue Day there was also emphasized necessity of further promotion and informing wider audience about this form of education. These conclusions are to be guidelines for participants’ future work in the field.

For EVS project organisers who are hosting EVS volunteers in Serbia and Montenegro and South East Europe, "Hajde da..." Group offers the possibility to deliver on- arrival training sessions.

On-arrival training sessions are part of the learning process for all EVS volunteers and essential for the cultural adaptation in the host country.

"Hajde da..." trainers for YOUTH have extensive training experience both at national and European level. For more references about previous on-arrival training courses done by our trainers, please see the reports on the SALTO website at http://www.salto-youth.net/seeEVS/ or visit the "Hajde da..." Group webpage at www.hajdeda.org.yu/youth .

For more information about organizing on-arrival training sessions for your volunteers, please contact Darko Markovic to: omladina@hajdeda.org.yu .

"Hajde da..." Group is also one of the official Contact Points for the YOUTH programme in Serbia and Montenegro.



EVS On-arrival training
The main objective of the on-arrival training is to introduce volunteers to their host country and their project environment. On arrival training supports volunteers in responding to (inter)cultural and personal challenges, allowing volunteers in the region to get to know each other and build a mutual support network. The On arrival training helps volunteers think about their EVS as a learning process and should provide them with opportunity to define their learning objectives.
In case of the On-arrival training, timing is of utmost importance. Ideally, the on-arrival training is organized within 4 weeks after the arrival of the volunteer in a form of a residential course. If the on-arrival training takes place long time after the arrival of the volunteer, it will appear as a meaningless appointment.

Possible content elements (topics) for the On-arrival training:
- Information about the host country and the host culture (or host countries and cultures in case of a regional training)
- Elements of the language training (basic phrases in the host country language)
- Understanding intercultural learning processes and ways of dealing with cultural diversity
- Conflict managemnet and conflict transformation skills
- EVS as a learning process
- Setting personal learning objectives for the voluntary service period
- Rights and responsibilties of the project partners and all involved (sending organization, host organization, volunteer, supervisor, mentor)
- Understanding of volunteering and what it means to be a European volunteer

Project "Alphabet of Tolerance"

Since January 2006. "Let's..." Group has been implementing the programme "Alphabet of Tolerance" in four new schools: "Velimir Markicevic" (Majdanpek), "Servo Mihalj" (Zrenjanin), "Svetozar Markovic" (Leskovac) i "Dimitrije Tucovic" (Kraljevo).

The teacher training will be finished till February 2006. After that, participants will conduct workshops with children.
This time the project has two more components:
* Participants will be educated for implementation of animated serial "It's so unfair!", as an educational tool for intercultural education,
* In the end of the project (May/June 2006.) there will be organized school actions with the aim to promote values of cooperation, mutual respect and diversity.

Trainers are: Jelena Jovanovic, Suzana Krstic, Dragana Lalic, Marija Marjanovic, Danijela Jovic, Majda Ponjavic, Vojislava Tomic i Jelena Rankovic.
Evaluator of the project is Dragan Popadic, PhD, and coordinator Marko Pejovic.

Project is financially supported by Norwegian People's Aid.

Project "Non-Formal Education In Europe - A Step Towards Recognition Of Non-Formal Education In Serbia And Montenegro"

on February 17th, 2006, in the "Metropol" Hotel, in Belgrade, there will be held a Dialogue Day – “The Upcoming Trends In The Field Of Non-Formal Education - Another Step Towards Recognition Of Non-Formal Education In Serbia And Montenegro".

On this occasion, representatives of stakeholders that are in different ways engaged in education, will gather together, with an aim to discuss the importance of recognition and validation of non-formal education in Serbia and Montenegro, as well as to support process of affirmation and quality standars development in this field.

The Dialogue Day will be realized as the result of cooperation of "Hajde da..." Group and Forum Syd Balkans Programme.