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Youth Center Idrija (Mladinski center Idrija) is a community space and a youth node in the town of Idrija (Slovenia) that functions as a meeting place for young people and increasingly for the whole community of Idrija. The story of Youth Center Idrija dates back in 2008, when the need for a common youth space was articulated at one of the round tables organized by Student’s Association Idrija. A petition for the founding of such space followed and a vision plan for it was written by young activists of Students’ Association Idrija and local Scouts’ Association. After years of negotiations with local government, a 300 m2 in the old monastery were given into use to young local people in 2012. Youth center Idrija was thus formed as an umbrella organization by 3 local NGO (Scouts' Association Rod srebrnih krtov Idrija, Association for youth development Idrija 2020 and Students' Association Idrija). Youth volunteers renovated the spaces and furnished it with second-hand and DIY furniture, donated by inhabitants and companies from Idrija.
Today the aim of the community youth space is to encourage public participation of youth in decision-making processes, structured dialogue, youth mobility and volunteering, informal education, social inclusion and intercultural dialogue, creative and active free time …
Several activities inhabit the space:
Education and personal growth
- Entrepreneurial club and course for high school pupils
- Career orientation workshops and seminars
- Robotics course
- Programming course
- Word, Excel, Power Point, Adobe workshops
- Language courses (Russian, German, Italian …)
- Travelogue lectures
Sport activities:
- Sports tournaments
- Aerobics and dance classes
Music activities:
- Youth choir meetings
- Public acoustic concerts
International activities:
- Youth exchanges
- Urbanistic workshops
Meetings:
- Students’ Association Idrija
- Scouts' Association Rod srebrnih krtov Idrija,
- Association for youth development Idrija 2020
- local orienteering club ...
Other:
- Season-related events (Santa Claus visit for local children, making Halloween masks, gift-wrapping workshops …)
- Humanitarian activities (collecting clothes and food for refugees, collecting toys for under-privileged children, blood-donating …)
- Birthday celebrations for children
- Daily center for children with less opportunities – social care programme
- Clothes-exchanges
In broad terms, the main visitors of the Idrija youth center are young people (15 - 30 y.o.) of town of Idrija.
The international training will be aimed at developing Digital Youth Work and empowering Youth Workers with competences they need for implementing DYW.
This project addresses the important question of whether and how digital nomads can play a meaningful role in enhancing youth work in your local organization.
The main goal is to renovate the hostel and provide attractive offer from young people for future visitors that come to Idrija.
Last-minute opportunity for 2 youth workers to join the adventure of living together outdoors and learning how to transfer that knowledge to young people.
The APV and youth exchange in Idrija, Slovenia for 30 young people from all over Europe will focus on breaking stereotypes through group and personal challenges
Training for all youth (street) workers who already have experience in the field street youth work and all others interested in it.
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Youth center Idrija (Mladinski center Idrija) is
Idrija Youth C. is a community space in a town in Slovenia that functions as a meeting place for young people and increasingly for the whole community.
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http://otlas-org.salto-youth.net/9733