Asociatia "Tinerii Secolului XXI"

“Tinerii Secolului XXI” Association commenced to work in spring 1999 just a little group of 5 people. It was registered as an NGO in the same year. The organization was formed and operates out of the strong need of its members to be proactive in the society and time they live in. Since than we are oriented towards creation of opportunities for youth to grow and adapt to the upcoming changes. By that goal, we have developed a program of active participation of youth to ensure the rising of their awareness, in short, to prepare them to become youth of Europe with all the benefits and responsibilities.

Our mission is to increase the involvement of young people in the public life. Our objectives are to promote the basic needs of Romanian young people, to educate them in the spirit of democracy, to promote the relations between youth organizations from Romania and abroad, to promote the European idea and principles contained in the United Charta in Romanian society debates.

Our aims are:
• To inform the young people about civic education, health programs, community organization, community development;
• To promote the Romanian values in the country and abroad;
• To create equal opportunities in accessing the information to all young people;
• To educate the young people in the spirit of the democracy, tolerance and diversity;
• To develop national and international youth project collaborating with local, regional, national and international youth structures;

In order to achieve his objectives our association is organizing conferences, seminars, workshops, public campaigns, training courses, symposia and debates, is communicating with the state institutions and civil society and in the same time participating to other association activities in the country and abroad.

Even back in 1999 we have started just a little group composed only by 5 volunteers, now we have more then 200 members organized in 2 offices. One of the offices is located in Drobeta Turnu Severin town, the older and the most active one. The second office situated in Vinju Mare, beside regular activities is holding also a youth centre coordinated by our volunteers. 22 of our volunteers conduct workshops and field work (peer to peer) with other youth in our community.

Our staff are people with huge working experience in the youth field and administration.

On the national and international level our work is oriented toward implementation of our national program for youth development and development of active citizenship. Also, we are creating opportunities for networking, capacity building and exchanges for youth, in the partnership with local, national and international NGOs.