Danijela Matorcevic (ex Juric)

Current occupation

free lance trainer in the youth field, voluntary work and NGO management issues

Work experience

At the moment I am active as a member of the following pools of trainers:
- Serbian National Agency for the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme (Fondacija TEMPUS)
- Croatian National Agency for the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme (AMPEU)
- SALTO SEE RC
- Council of Europe, Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Participation / Youth Department
- South East European Youth Network
- Out Of The Box International

I have been member of the EVS accreditors’ pools of:
- Croatian National Agency for Youth in Action programme
- SALTO SEE RC

TRAINING COURSES:

Since 2002 I have been active as a trainer on more than 220 international training courses on following topics:
- Training of/for trainers and/or facilitators;
- Volunteer Management; Volunteer projects and concepts/values;
- Team work; Team building;
- Non-formal education and youth (un)employment;
- Leadership;
- Peace building; Peace Education; Conflict management;
- Strategy; Strategic leadership, thinking and planning;
- YOUTH / Youth in Action Programme; Quality of youth exchanges;
- Fundraising;
- Organizational and project management;
- Awareness Raising, PR and Lobbying;
- Structured Dialogue;
- Human Rights; Minority Rights; Gender issues;
- Intercultural learning and dialogue;
- European citizenship; Global citizenship and education;
- Youth sport work
- Self-employment and (social) entrepreneurship

PUBLICATIONS:

“CURRICULUM OF TRAINING OF YOUTH WORKERS FOR ORGANISING AND LEADING THE ACTIVITIES OF NON-FORMAL EDUCATION WITH YOUTH FROM MARGINALISED GROUPS”; Author;
- Practical handbook and curriculum with theoretical background and suggestions for specific training sessions and workshops.
- Cooperation between Centre for Non-formal education and Lifelong learning (CNELL) and City of Novi Sad, Office for Youth

“NON-FORMAL EDUCATION AND ACTIVE YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN SOCIETY”; Author;
- Brochure on importance and quality of non-formal education for permanent, effective and efficient active youth participation in society.
- Cooperation between Centre for Non-formal education and Lifelong learning (CNELL) and Ministry of youth and sports of Serbia

“SEE VOLUNTEERS IN SEE”; Member of the editorial team;
- Analysis of the research on voluntarism and different situations on law on volunteering in SEE countries within the “Albert Einstein Project”.
- Cooperation between SEEYN, Balkan Human Rights Network (BHRN) and United Nations Volunteers (UNV)

"VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT"; Author
- Practical brochure on managing local volunteers in non-governmental organizations in Croatia
- Cooperation between VCZ and Croatian Ministry for families, war veterans and intergenerational solidarity

“VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK”; Author
- practical handbook on managing volunteers in general (local, and foreign short and long term), but mainly in SEE
- Cooperation between SEEYN and VCZ

“TOOLKIT ON STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP”; Author
- practical handbook on the most effective leading of the NGOs in the information age that we live in with so rapid changing environment
- Service Civil International / SAVA Working Group (within the YOUTH Programme of the EC)

ORGANIZATIONS:

December 2007 – ongoing
Centre for nonformal education and lifelong learning (CNELL), Novi Sad, Serbia
- Programme Coordinator and trainer (2007 – ongoing)

August 2012 – ongoing
Active youth in happy Europe (AMUSE), Pancevo, Serbia
- Educational adviser and trainer (2012 – ongoing)

October 2005 – 2012
Service Civil International (SCI), SEE
- Trainer (2006 – 2012)
- International Executive Committee member (2007 – 2009)
- Member of the European Youth Forum Pool of Trainers (2007 – 2009)
- SAVA Working Group Coordinator (2005 – 2007)
- SCI International Evaluation Commission member (2006 – 2007)

June 2002 – ongoing
South East European Youth Network (SEEYN), SEE
- Trainer (2003 – ongoing)
- Professional Expert (2006)
- Advocacy advisor (2003 – 2006 )
- Volunteer Management Group member (2003 – 2006)
- Executive Committee member (2002 – 2004)

January 2004 - December 2007
Volunteers’ Centre of Vojvodina – SCI Serbia
* Know-how founder (2004)
* Educational advisor (2004 – 2007)
* Fundraiser (2005 – 2007)
* Volunteer Manager (2005 – 2007)

April 2001 - 2009
Volunteers’ Centre Zagreb – SCI Croatia
- President of the Steering Board (2007 – 2009) / Executive Board member (2003 – 2007)
- Consultant in Volunteers’ Management and in YOUTH / Youth in Action Programme of the European Commission (2005 – 2009)
- Member of the National Advisory Board within UNV RIVER SEE Project (2005 – 2007)
- Fundraiser (2003 – 2008)
- Workcamp leader (2002 – 2004)

December 2004 – July 2005
Civil Society Development Foundation, Budapest, Hungary
- Member of Trainers and Experts’ team of CSDF
- Coordinating projects in South East Europe and projects and programs concerning youth and/or volunteers’ NGOs

June 2004 - 2006
Ministry for families, war veterans and intergenerational solidarity, Zagreb, Croatia
- President of jury committee for the Croatian youth NGOs’ projects (2004 – 2005)
- Member of the Jury Committee for the Croatian youth with disabilities NGO’s projects (2006)

May 2001 – September 2003
“Poslovni Zbornik”, publisher house of business publications, Zagreb, Croatia
- Marketing Adviser

December 2002 – June 2003
Press office of the Greek Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia
- Translator and interpreter for Greek and English languages

July – September 2000
“Centre for children, youth and families”, Association for Psychological Help, Velika Gorica, Croatia
- Group facilitator

2000/2001
“Step by Step” program, Parents’ Association Step by Step, Zagreb, Croatia
- Program coordinator of the kindergarten