28. decembar 2007.

28. decembar 2007.

Group "Let’s…" from Belgrade with financial support of Salto-Youth SEE Resource Center and with cooperation with NGO Center za omladinski rad from Novi Sad and NGO Protekta from Niš realized the project SERBIA AND EUROPE TOGETHER THROUGH PROGRAMME YOUTH IN ACTION within which we:

- organized tree trainings about the Youth in action Programme (20th November in Niš, 22nd November 2007 in Belgrade and 24th November 2007 in Novi Sad), which answered the questions:

- and translated the publication Paths to International Cooperation in the youth field to Serbian language. In printed version will be soon available in Group "Let’s..." and also in electronic version in our site and site of Salto-Youth SEE Resource Center (http://www.salto-youth.net/see/)

It’s So Unfair!
– Educational Workshops Dealing With Anti-discrimination issues, Human Rights and Peace Education, for Primary School Children

Download Alphabet of tolerance for teachers, pps (4 MB) Streaming "Who's staring, and who's not, that is the question!", episode from animated series "It's so Unfair" >>>

General Project Information

Project is meant for:
- Primary target group: teachers, professors, experts (pedagogues, psychologists) and other teaching-staff
- Secondary target group: children aged 9 to 12
- Project indirectly tackles parents whose children are involved in the Project, citizens who live at Vracar Municipality, as well as wider audience, who will be informed on project activities and values that are the base of the “It’s So Unfair!” program.

Project objectives:
- enhancing participants’ knowledge on social phenomena, such as : prejudices, discrimination, violence, tolerance and cooperation
- improving participants’ (teaching staff) skills to use animated material as a supplementary educational tool, that contributes to sensitizing children to recognize the aforementioned phenomena in their immediate surroundings and develop constructive responses upon those.

Ultimate project goal is to decrease incidence of violent acts and discrimination, especially in school context.

Partners on the project: primary schools “Sinisa Nikolajevic”, “Dusan Dugalic”, “Vladislav Ribnikar” and “Svetozar Markovic”.

Project activities:

• Establishing cooperation with schools that will be included in project
• Delivering a training course for teaching staff
• Teacher-participants run the 6 workshops with groups of children in their schools
• Design and printing of promotional materials
• Supervisory meetings (“Hajde da...” Group’s trainers visit teachers who have run the workshops with children)
• Preparation of wrapping-up event, planned for December 10th – International Human Rights Day

Delivering a training course for teaching staff

On October 19th-21st, 2007, there was a training course delivered for teacher-participants from the four primary schools, involved in the project. The course lasted for 2 and a half days and was an opportunity for participants to get introduced with objectives and specificities of the “It’s So Unfair!” program.

The first part of the course was to sensitize participants and increase their level of understanding certain social phenomena the program deals with – prejudices, discrimination, violence, tolerance, cooperation.
This was followed by introduction of basics about interactive group work methodology, as well as other skills that are necessary for successful implementation of this program with children (such as: communication skills, conflict transformation and so forth).

Participants were very satisfied, especially as they had an opportunity to exchange experiences with their colleagues, to gain concrete knowledge and skills on how to use animated material, that they can immediately apply in their everyday work with children, as well as they were pleased to “treat these phenomena through an animated series, that children very much appreciate”.

The next step is for participants to run the 6 workshops with children aged 9-12, in their schools. Each of the workshops is followed by one episode of an animated series “It’s So Unfair!”.

Financially supported by City Municipality of Vracar, Belgrade.

November 4th 2007.

Dear colleagues,

Let us announce that, as of Monday, November 5th, 2007, "Hajde da..." Group will move to Knez Danilova Street, no. 12, 10th floor, apartment no. 84; tel/fax: +381 11 3240 425.

E-mail (hajdeda@eunet.yu) and web-adress (www.hajdeda.org.yu) will remain the same.

Welcome to our new office!

October 17th 2007.

During Jun 2007., a group of young people went to the three modular training that happened in three cities / countries – Serbia (Belgrade), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Zenica) and Croatia (Osijek).

Partricipants of training come from 7 countres: Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Hungary, Slovakia, Italia and Serbia. They saw and heard lot of things, and kept notes and pictures they made about their experience. During their training they wrote diary, made interviews with each others (et the end of every modules) and made pictures of most interested moments.

Thanks to them, in front of you is a document with selection of most interested things they saw and wrote about.

Enjoy… (pdf file) >>>

August 22th, 2007.

As of July 2007 until January 2008, "Hajde da..." Group will host Andreja Pavlin, coming from Slovenia, from Youth Centre Brezice. Andreja came to our organization within European Commission's «Youth in Action» Programme i.e. European Voluntary Service, and is the third volunteer that we've hosted for the past four years. The project in which Andreja will be engaged is entitled “Non-Formal Education and Youth Participation in Serbia”. Moreover, we expect her to contribute her experience in the field of youth work, to realization of other projects and programs of “Hajde da…” Group in the upcoming six months, during her service. Having in mind our previous experiences with volunteers coming from European countries, as well as Andreja’s several years practice in Youth Centre Brezice, we expect process of learning, exchanging knowledge, ideas and know-how to be mutual! We certainly look forward to it!

July 24th, 2007.

As a follow up to the "Non-Formal Education in Europe – a Step Towards Integration of Serbia Into the Common European Educational Space"
(www.hajdeda.org.yu/nfe/index.htm), that has been implemented during 2005/06, representatives of “Hajde da...” Group visited Estonia (July 17th-22nd, 2007) and participated into the Summit on Non-Formal Learning. The event was organized and financially supported by Estonian National Agency for European Commission’s "Youth in Action" Programme.

Sixteen participants coming from Estonia, Croatia, Belgium and Serbia gathered together, aiming to exchange experiences and examples of good practices in their prior work on non-formal education recognition, define possible future steps in the field in their respective countries and develop plans for relevant further joint actions on the European level. Participants represented CSOs, formal educational institutions, relevant European bodies, adult education institutes, youth NGOs, professional associations and so forth.


After the initiative that has been undertaken by "Hajde da..." Group in 2005/06, on the national level, that included representatives of all three sectors (civil, public and for-profit), who might be interested and/or could contribute to affirmation of concepts of life-long learning and non-formal education, we believe that this Summit and its outcomes can be relevant for all the aforementioned key actors.

Therefore, the report on it will be available soon, in e-form, at “Hajde da... “ Group’s official web site (www.hadeda.org.yu).

22. July 2007.

In June a Study Visit was organized for youth leaders and Local Government representatives who are participating in the project "To know–to participate!". Participants from Leskovac and Kragujevac visited New Belgrade and Indjija local governments where they got acquainted with municipality programs that work for/with young people and also examples of good practice of on how (young) people can participate in the decision making process.

In New Belgrade the participants where greeted by the member of Municipal Council Aleksandar Cordas and in Indjija by Petar Janjic, Chief of cabinet.

Furthermore the participants had the chance to visit New Belgrade Office for Youth and talk with youth NGOs who are supported by the municipality governments.

The project is realized in partnership with NGO Tango from Kragujevac and People's Parliament from Leskovac and is financially supported by Olof Palme International Center and SIDA.

08. June, 2007.

Download Alphabet of tolerance for teachers, pps (4 MB) Streaming "Who's staring, and who's not, that is the question!", episode from animated series "It's so Unfair" >>>

08. June, 2007.

Animated Series for Peace Education of Children and Others –"It’s So Unfair!" has been officially accredited by Ministry of Education of Republic of Serbia, in May 2007. Institute for Improving Education has recognized innovativeness and high quality of this approach and included it into Catalogue of approved programs for continuous professional development of those who work in formal educational institutions, for academic year of 2007/08. This project is primarily meant for teachers, professors, pedagogues, psychologists and other experts who work in schools. The program aims to enhance participants’ knowledge on social phenomena such as prejudices, discrimination, violence, tolerance, cooperation, as well as to improve their skills on how to use an animated series as a tool for sensitizing children to recognize the aforementioned phenomena and react upon them adequately. Overall purpose of the project is to decrease incidence of violent acts and discrimination towards minority groups, especially in school context.

4. June, 2007.

In the period of November 2006 - May 2007, Group "Let's..." have implemented a project "Support to the straightening of Pupils parliaments in the New Belgrade municipality". The project was implemented in High-school for tourism that is one of 6 high-schools, of New Belgrade.

The OBJECTIVE of the project was to strengthen the structure of high-school parliaments in New Belgrade, to develop the capacities of parliament’s members and provide resources for actions of the parliaments in schools.
The first part of the project was done in three training modules (topics where: negotiation skills, team work, communication, action planning, change management etc) and it was done for the group of 20 representatives of pupils parliaments.
After the educational part of the project group of participants have received a small grant from Group “Let’s…” in order to realize their local action within their high-school. This was an opportunity for pupils who participated in the training to practice what they learned. Also, pupils from their and other high schools, as well as school staff, participated in lecturing in order to promote the essence of pupil’s parliaments. Young people have also distributed brochures that answer what are pupil’s parliaments, how do they function and why are they important. Brochure was written and designed by youth themselves.

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.

25. March, 2007.

"youthNET SEE – Creative Partnerships" start-up conference took place in Ohrid, March 15-18.
Overall idea of this project is to enhance the regional cooperation and networking of NGOs in SEE region and increase their capacities to take the lead in European Commission’s “Youth in Action”, while offering the support of, and the exchange with, NGOs from EU countries.

It is planned that project will last for three years. “youthNET – Creative Partnerships” will work in three regional sub-project groups, that will be composed out of neighboring countries in SEE combined with participants from EU countries. Sub-projects with deal with topics such as: tolerance through local participation, art and culture, and environment.

The project initially gathers partners from 11 European countries, but is open for new-coming organizations and innovative ideas and initiatives.

Next project phase are regional start-up events for each of the sub-groups, that are going to happen in June, in three venues – in Macedonia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

24. March, 2007.

Mid-term meeting for EVS in Belgrade, Serbia,
28-29. 04. 2007.

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

The training will take place 28-29. April 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 midterm@hajdeda.org.yu

19. February 2007.

Group «Let's...» from Belgrade in the cooperation with NGO Tango from Kragujevac and People's Parliament from Leskovac have initiated a project that will enable young people (from 17 to 25) from Kragujevac i Leskovac to find out how they can participate in the life of their community, cooperate with local government and NGOs and also how to create and lead actions that will increase the quality of life of youth in local community. Program will entail leadership workshops for youth, seminars for local government officials, study visit of youth and government officials to other municipalities in Serbia that represent the example of good practice, forum where young people and local government officials will debate on the topic of youth needs and process of creating concrete actions (action plans) in two local communities in Serbia.

The project is financially supported by Olof Palme International Center and SIDA.