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EUROPEAN VALUES FOR THE FUTURE OFSOUTHEAST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Krusevo 11-15 of September 2015
Table of contents A short guide through 13th International Youth Conference “European Values of Future of Southeastern European Countries” 2015
A short guide through 13th International Youth Conference 3
Topics under discussion 12
• Scanning the current situation in SEE 14
- European Social Model in 21st Century 16
- Using or abusing the EU funds 18
- Refugee crisis or EU-enlargement 20
- A crisis with the crisis: Migration as a European rights issue 20
• Youth (un)emoloyment and Education issues 22
- How universities can play a role in youth entrepreneurship? 24
- Creativity as a key for dream employability 27
• Politics and media: a view behind the curtain 30
- Lost in democratic transition – political challenges and perspectives 32
- Are the radical ideologies a threat to democracy? 33
- Who builds the reality – we or the media? 35
- Challenges or new beginnings? 36
• Future planning 38
- Conference effectiveness 40
- Action Planing 41
Thank You! 42
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“Our main goal
was not only to promote European
integration as integration of an economic and political
structure (EU), but also to bring the European values
closer to the young people from the SEE
region”
“Creativity is important
but not the key for employability – execution is the key
for employability Ideas and creativity without
execution are not worthy”
p.28
“The personal dignity is
valued as the first important value by the most countries”
p.32
“Radical act means
finding what is possible in the sphere of impossible and only
on this way we can reach happiness”
p.34
“Remember that you are the
one who creates your own reality and future Therefore: Investigate;
Take responsbility; Don’t blame anyone
and be happy”
p.35
“European values are the
universal values and values that comprise
it have a different level of acceptance and
prioritization in the different countries”
p.17
“Europe needs more
union and the European Union
itself needs more union”
p.20
“We need to forget
our hypocrisy, to forget our
constitutive myths and maybe “ishala”
there is hope”
p.21
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415 applications58 young leaders 21 speakers7 IPG members 5 days, 11-15 September, 2015 Krusevo Macedonia
Macedonia (as the host country)
AlbaniaBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgariaCroatiaGreeceKosovoMontenegro
ItalyRomaniaSerbiaSloveniaTurkeyGermanyFrancePoland
16 countries
Geographical scope of IYC 2015
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Need of encouraging
and supporting the young leaders to
undertake actions and steadfast commitment
to build a better European region
of SEE
The project team consists
experienced youth workers, which have
successfully implemented many projects for active
participation of the young people in all issues
of the social life
Creation of the platform for cooperation
between active young people from SEE region
which will serve as tool for promotion of the European
values, spreading the word for future actions
in the communities
International Preparatory Group
- team of international youth leaders (composed
by the most active participants of the previous
Conference), responsible for the preparation on the
contents of the Conference
program
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TOPICS UNDER DISCUSSIONThe Conference program was articulated along the four main program pillars:
1 SCANNING THE CURRENT SITUATION IN SEE
3 POLITICS AND MEDIA: A VIEW BEHIND THE CURTAIN
2 YOUTH(UN)EMOLOYMENT AND EDUCATION ISSUES
4 FUTURE PLANNING
European Social Model in 21st Century
Using or abusing the EU funds
Refugee crisis or EU-enlargement
A crisis with the crisis: Migration as a European rights issue
How universities can play a role in youth entrerpenurship
Creativity as a key for dream employability
Lost in democratic transition – Pollitical challenges and Persepctives
Is the radical ideologies a democratic threat?
Who build the reality – we or the media?
Challenges or new beginings?
Conference effectiveness
Action Planing
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Questions?
How civil society activities can be mobilized and transformed
into implementable actions in the construction of
the better social system?
What are the European
values?
How is solidarity presented in the Balkans?
What is the European model of governance?
What the civil society organizations
are, what activities do they undertake?
Scanning the current situation in SEE
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European Social Model in 21st Century
Ms Ionela Carmen BosoteanuCounty Department for Youth and Sports Iasi, Romania• The European Social Model
must sustain the equality between societies, meaning: ending poverty, guaranteeing the basic human rights, social protection, dialogue and responsibility for the unemployment.
• Nowadays, there is a big problem between the globalization and the Social Europe, with other words, it is believed that the globalization is a response of all the meaning of Social Europe.
• Another goal for Social Europe was the social dialogue, like a productive factor between the entrepreneurs and the society.
Mr Tomasz Żornaczuk Polish Institute of International Affairs• Currently there is little debate
about the nature and extent of the shared values of EU-member and candidate states.
• The first includes those, which are universally accepted as a necessity for any modern civilized state. These are beyond debate and include peace, basic human rights, individual freedom, and rule of law, equality and self-fulfillment. The second set however is different, as the values that comprise it have a different level of acceptance and prioritization in the different countries. These roughly include democracy, solidarity, tolerance, freedom
of religion, economic development, environmental protection and others.
• European values are the universal values and values that comprise it have a different level of acceptance and prioritization in the different countries.
• The recent model of governance, requires an active participation of the civil society.
• One of the brilliant initiative is called ‘PrEUgovor’, which means like pre-marriage agreement and it deals only with the chapters 23 and 24 that are the clue of the negotiations.
• In Macedonia, we have the most organized civil society organization system, they are well educated and they make a good focus on the problem. The issue is that the government is not cooperative at all, they have a lack of understanding what the civil society means. This is a big challenge here for the young people, they need to use different channels like media, social media etc.
Discussion and conclusions:• Civil society can be defined
as pretty much any organization that is outside the governmental structures and has some goal to achieve, whether it is to limit the number of the homeless
Mr Radostin Stoyanov VankinPresident of Bulgarian – Montenegrin Association• The times urgently demand
a new European social model built on four guiding principles: Full Employment and Job Creation; Education and Life-Long Learning; Opportunity and Innovation and Sustainable Public Finances.
• The solidarity is presented in the Balkans as a historical burden of the SEE countries.
• Collaborate with the CSOs and use their expertise and observations when working on the development of social mechanisms and solutions.
people in the country, to make the city greener, or to fight corruption.
• If it is about fighting the corruption, it is better to be bigger nongovernmental organization and known for good results, that can easily reach the government.
• How to improve democracy if the government does not listen? In order for the government to undertake some reforms that are making sense from the civil society point of view, the government may simply loose the political support for that. So this is always kind of negotiation and compromise of how far you can get. But in any case, it is better to have this access to the government and have the chance to explain your agreements, than to not be even able to knock on its door.
• The European Union, represents the principle of solidarity, where richer member states finance
the development of poorer states and regions, in order to improve a quality of life of all EU citizens.
• The Regional policy of the EU, also known as Cohesion Policy was created in order to provide sustainable economic development for each country.
• It is important to ensure a fair system that gives every European the same opportunities (education, health care, political representation) so that people feel comfortable with the European democracy.
• In the democratic society for a healthy development is essential the dialogue between authorities and citizens!
• Active participation is a key element of democracy!
• Democracy may not be the best system, but it is creating the framework for citizens to develop and to empower them to have their
say for the well-being.
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Using or abusing the EU funds
Ms Lidija DimovaMacedonian Centre for European Training, Skopje, Macedonia• Transparency doesn’t mean
putting everything online, it means to put the data online in a form that is understandable for the people.
• The European Union should find a way of how to give the people data in a format that is much easier to understand and they should stop corruption, at least in the countries that they are supporting at the moment.
• We should be grateful for the possibilities, but however we must demand for more transparency and greater openness. There is one instrument that EU is not using – conditionality. It is easier to do your job if you are close with the government.
Mr Hrvoje ButiganRepresentation office of Dubrovnik Neretva Region• The EU Commission makes
direct financial contributions in the form of grants in support of projects or organizations which further the interests of the EU or contribute to the implementation of an EU programme or policy.
• Example of the best practices: Project „yBBregions“. “yBBregions - Youth and Brussels based” is an European project of 4 European regions: Dubrovnik Neretva (Croatia), Abruzzo (Italy), Lubuskie (Poland), and Prešov (Slovakia). All these regions want to provide their youngsters with the same Brussels-Based cooperating-
platform, which works on daily basis for their branches, as a unique provider of non-formal education sources and opportunities.
Discussion and conclusions:• Corruption is mainly
structural problem, so the main efforts should be done on institutional level;
• In order the analysis and actions to be evidence based, the cooperation with the government is necessity;
• When people believe that the corruption is decreasing and the situation is improved, they are more willing to resist against the corruption – it is essential part to give hope and motivation to the people;
• There should be building of the capacities for improvement of transparency and anticorruption in our societies;
• CSO are the most important stakeholders in anticorruption and they really should be strong and really have to push;
• We have to see things with critical eyes, we have to see the problems in order to improve the things;
• Both, the institutions and beneficiaries must be obliged to prevent fraud and mismanagement of funds, to hire qualified personnel who will be dealing with EU funds, to reduce the risk of incoherent and complicated internal regulations and also, to provide more information about the evaluation and selection procedure. Local institution should provide anti-corruption training targeted for financial managers who are responsible for managing of EU funds.
• The normative and structural capabilities of CSOs engaged in the fight against misuse of EU funds needs to be strengthened.
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Refugee crisis or EU-enlargement
A crisis with the crisis: Migration as a European rights issue
• The social integration is parspatu for EU for migration and it is not only related to migrants.
• Migration it is a norm but it is exception
• Migration as norm: people always migrated. Autochthony is an ideological construction.
• Migration as exception: people do not like to migrate. Less than 3% of the international population lives outside their countries of origin
• You cannot stop migration with a fence, but you will redirect the main root of the migrants
Discussion and conclusions:• The difference between
migrants, asylum - seeker and emigrants - The idea is that the more difficult we make their way to come, the less will come and it collapsed, not because of the more philanthropic new generations;
• Why are migrants choosing the north of Europe rather than the rich neighboring?
- In Europe, human life has a meaning;
- They believe that in the long term, their life will be better in Europe.
• Generally we believe that Europe is core of the world. Today in the world, Iran has the biggest migrants flow,
not Germany, not Sweden, not Switzerland;
• The 4 key players act during this refuge crisis in different part of the world – central government; local government; CSO, NGOs, Solidarity movements and Media;
• We need to forget our hypocrisy, to forget our constitutive myths and maybe ishala there is hope.
• We must give voice about this and remind our fellow governments, that we are one, doesn’t matter from which country we come, what is our skin, what is our religion, and that there should not exist any kind of borders between people!
• Go where you are celebrated – not tolerated!
• Regardless of origin or creed, we all have the same rights and responsibilities towards our fellow humans.
• Integration in the process of education and language are the areas that should be given priority!
• `The global, the local, and the hybrid: a native ethnography of globalization’
• We should never forgive that we’re all together (country wise and individually too) responsible for the ongoing crisis and therefore we must unite in the process of the finding solution!
Dr Christine AlthauserAmbassador of Federal Republic of Germany in Skopje• The current crisis shows
that among different member states of EU there is a different understanding of when European values have effect and who can benefit from them among the European member states.
• Europe needs more union and the European Union itself needs more union.
• We have to find legal package to channel immigration, a legal immigration.
• The EU put emphasizes at two values solidarity and humanity we can overcome the crisis.
• European Union is strong power in Europe and only power of Europe.
Prof Dimitris ChristopoulosAssociate Professor, Panteion University, Greece & Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights
• Migration is not a problem because there is no solution to migration, a deviation is a problem. A problem is gap between the existing start and the desired start.
• Migration is tend to be identified with poverty by the public opinion, but it is not always like that. Actually, a lot of people who are not poor, migrate. If we see who migrates now, they are definitely not the poorest, because the poorest cannot even able to migrate and leave the country, migration means money.
• We have several cases of countries inviting migrants, such as Belgium, Netherlands, and Germany after the Second World War. But generally people move without invitation.
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Questions?
What is the Role of the University in Youth Entrepreneurship?
From internship to job – challenges and
opportunities?
What are the ideal parameters of doing
an internship?
Achieving employability of students in a challenging
environment?
How do we become high achievers?
Creative indistruies? Job and creating job?
Youth (un)emoloyment and Education issues
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How universities can play a role in youth entrepreneurship?
Mr Kevin J AspegrenPresident of the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG)• Classified entrepreneurs
as those who connected producers with consumers, with the motive of earning profits.
• Entrepreneurial mindset is specific state of mind which orientates human conduct towards entrepreneurial activities and outcomes.
• Youth entrepreneurship prepares young people to be responsible, enterprising individuals and it also contributes to economic development and sustainable communities.
Dr Martine Alonso MarquisDirector, Pat Cox - Humanity in Actin Fellowship in the European Parliament• The following paradox
appears: high youth unemployment co-exists
Dr Dori Pavloska – GjorgjieskaProfessor at MIT University• Employment - very often by
internship companies or self-employment;
• Most useful skills: project management, English language, communication and organizational skills, sales, marketing, promotion, teamwork, market research;
• How to deliver such an education?
- Conceptualization: Explicit knowledge processed through theory (in-class learning)
- Experimentation: conceptual knowledge becomes
grounded (in-lab learning) - Experience: practical application of tacit knowledge, reinforcing tacit knowledge gained from experimentation (in-field learning)
- Reflection: brings inherent tacit knowledge to the surface (competence gaining)
Discussion and conclusions:• Active role of the
universities towards youth entrepreneurship - lessons at high schools; the university services and lessons open up to the community, mentoring and counseling for people who do not attend at university, different kind of competitions during the year (startup weekends);
• Need to develop University Career Centers; Make sure future graduates in Europe enhance their EU employability tool box; Internships: a tool in your box (use smartly); Need for EU legislation on internship frameworks (need for action, mobilization);
• Combine explicit and tacit knowledge, theory and practice; Follow labor market needs; Strong career offices, dedicated to building stakeholders networks; Quality standards;
• Motivation is very important for establishing relationship between CSOs and Universities;
• What should we always keep in mind?
- Keep the local context at the heart of your program;
- Don’t lose sight of who your beneficiaries are;
- Be aware that female entrepreneurs may have specific needs;
- Remember that cultural attitudes to risk-taking can be pivotal.
with increased difficulties in filling vacancies; and existence of labor market mismatches, due to inadequate skills, limited geographic mobility or inadequate wage conditions.
• Over the last decade, a term called ‘Generation Internship’ appeared and includes higher education for generations of age category X-Y-Z for entering the job market at times of economic crisis.
• The ideal parameter for doing internships is during the studies, an experience abroad is also considered as one of the best options.
• In 70 years of life, 23 years we spend on sleeping, 16 years on working, and yet people spend more time planning their holidays than they do planning their career.
• How do we become high achievers? You need a plan. ‘Begin with the end in mind’ – Stephen Covey.
• Mastering the Art of Networking - From the most common job search methods, these following ones are the top ones, and the Networking is definitely dominating: - Job Ads: 8 %; -Search firms: 5%; -Job boards: 5 %; -Direct contact: 2 %; -Career fairs: 2 %; - Government: 2 % - Other: 2 %; - Networking: 80 %.
• Young people should make it a goal to expand their network because a good network is made of many loose ties rather than a few strong bonds.
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• Internship are real professional experiences and you should find way for selling this experience. Second, the internships should take place during the studies;
• Proactivity of young people is today more crucial than ever and it is more and more becoming a necessity for young people to function like this if they are to have any chance of finding job opportunities as well as creating a good life for themselves in today s modern society in which egocentrism and caring more for personal gain than for the development of healthy and generally beneficial communities is unfortunately becoming a rule rather than it being an exception.
• It is very important for universities to adapt Entrepreneurship education in their curriculum. Such a curriculum would prepare people, particularly young students, to be responsible, enterprising individuals who become entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial thinkers by immersing them in real life learning experiences where they can take risks, manage the results, and learn from the outcomes.
• When each day feels like the day gone by and the one
to come, it is time to ask yourself some questions. “Where you invest your time, you invest your life”?
• Young people know that a lot of things happening in the world affect them, but they think this influence is unclear and indirect. The challenge would be to select and to train the youth that are involved as volunteers since an early age – in order to become the new leaders connected at local and world decisions and changes and to have the power to influence the community.
• Тhe leadership is the volunteer responsibility assumed to lead the others for the community development, to develop the own personality and to find the vocational field.
• In order to make the universities even better places for gathering together young people with entrepreneurial spirit, the faculties should implement in the learning process more team-projects, entrepreneurship competitions, case studies, discussion among students and other interactive teaching methods.
• Universities can encourage more students to start their
own businesses by launching so-called ‘business incubators’ or ‘centers of entrepreneurship’.
• I strongly believe that it is universities responsibility to foster entrepreneurship among the students.
• Universities need to clearly identify the strategic part that education plays in creating a more entrepreneurial culture in our modern societies. The sooner these solutions are put into action, the more significant impact entrepreneurs will make.
Creativity as a key for dream employability
Mr Goce VeleskiFounder of “O my gad”, Macedonia• What is creativity? Where
can you find it? How to use it in anything? If time is money,
Mr. Ivan ŽivkovićPresident of Timok Youth Center, Zajecar, Serbia• Creative entrepreneurship
for sustainability of CSO’s.• Creative industries? Those
industries that are based on individual creativity, skill and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through developing intellectual property.
• Social enterprise is often defined as finding business and market based solutions
so that means that time is creativity.
• Creativity basically is a seed, you either grow it or you through it or feed the birds with it. The creativity can be found in everything.
• You don’t need experience to be employed – make the employers need you. Stop chasing money, do what you love and let the money chase you.
• Creativity is finding a solution, find the problem and solve it (get the solution). Open your mind and the ideas will come. Find the perfect job and keep it or if it’s not your perfect job quit it right away. If you get in the comfort zone, it is basically over for you.
to systemic social issues, such as social exclusion, long-term unemployment and sustainability.
• Expanding fields such as creative industries and social economy, have a key role in local development and process, we must continue with creation of supportive environment and innovative programs for their sustainability and youth employability. Such initiatives rely on the creativity of young people to improve their social status and economic situation.
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Discussion and conclusions:• If we want to keep moving
forwards equity and sustainability, we have no other choice than to be creative and innovative!
• Creativity, innovation and faith – key points for success.
• Be optimist, take the chance and learn from the experienced people.
• In order to stay competitive for the labour market, an individual needs to reach and grasp the creative potential which on daily bases is usually dormant, sleeping with forgotten childhood’s freedoms.
• Creative force is limitless, bound only by imagination, using it wisely is definitely one of the keys to dream, and sustainable employability, and should be cherished!
• Rural youth should open their minds and show their knowledge and creativity, increase employability and take an active role to pursue a change in the community!
• If you cannot find what you are looking for in the world, you have to create it.
• We shall not fool ourselves that we have nothing to lose when we have everything to lose in a situation of deciding to rebate our own value. Our work is a product of our skills, our knowledge, and our time. Our time constitutes our life.
• Today more than ever, we live in the age of the unlimited. Unlimited access to information, unlimited opportunities to education, to start a business from scratch, to introduce an innovation, to develop a project, to give a chance to an idea, to pave your own way up and make a success out of you. We do not need to be employed by somebody else, to be picked up out of many, to be chosen in a selection process, to be defined by a position and designed according to job requirements!
• It does not matter what we want, what we plan, what we think or dream about until we get down to work and make it happen.
• Today I woke up finding myself belonging to the 22.1% of unemployed young people in Europe and the unknown percentage of individuals in the world that refuse to stay passive and behave like a victim of the circumstances. We are more than statistics, more than labor force, more than employees!
• The value of our productivity, imagination and time is not to be measured only with money. We were given our gifts to give them away and this is the ultimate satisfaction we can get in the pursuance of a career.
Our dream employability is up to our creativity and willingness to test it. “I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul” - by Hemingway.
• Often the simplest solutions are the most effective ones and they can happen when we focus on the solution rather than on the problem.
• All young people have to be empowered in order to use their creativity, to support them to find their best in their skills and competences, to encourage them to learn new things and use their knowledge in order to become an employee or even an entrepreneur.
• The creativity’s potential is a tool and approach for youth workers so can foster employability!
• Creativity is the creative abilities that help to create and implement new ideas that do not fit into traditional patterns.
• Creativity is not only creative, but also the ability of the new view of the situation or the problem. In order to develop and progress, the people need to be creative.
• It is always necessary to look forward because, some ideas
Mr. Saša CvetojevićEntrepreneur, Angel investor and Founder of ZIP incubator Croatia• Creativity is important but
not the key for employability – execution is the key for employability. Ideas and creativity without execution are not worthy.
• If you are doing your job only for money, you will not get to the point. If you do not have passion, if you do not have love in what you do, you will not get.
• If you are not creative – copy, but copy with pride. Coping in history, most of the things what we have are made with coping. But it is not coping, it is improving. Today on internet you have all the knowledge in the world and most of it you can get it for free.
• Be the best in your job. LISTEN, READ, LEARN!
can be good nowadays, but not tomorrow.
• The flexibility plays important role because it can be base of the production different ideas, and can be helpful in work, as well as to keep the decision-making ability - the ability to such operations of thinking, the analysis and synthesis. The
creativity is unthinkable without the ability to add new items to the project, thereby making it more perfect.
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Politics and media: a view behind the curtain
Questions?
What are the attitudes of young people from
SEE toward EU?
Are the radical ideologies (not only ideologies but
also political stands) threat to democratic
process and why is that?
What is threat to democracy?
What is radical today in our region?
Who creates the reality?
We are creating the reality ….but the question how?
The road ahead? Creation of our
own model
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Lost in democratic transition – political challenges and perspectives
Mr Dane TaleskiPhD Political Sciences from Central European University Budapest• The central point for
collective society dispose different opinions and preferences and the three most important values according to the inquiries to the young people in the regions are:
• First important value on the Balkans - personal dignity;
- Second important value - fighting spirit, correctness, altruism, tolerance, honesty;
- Third important value – social prestige
• The personal dignity is valued as the first important value by the most countries during the research, the, correctness,
tolerance, honesty and altruism as the second and social prestige and fighting spirit as the third important value
• According to the confidence in the institutions: the media (Albania), religious leaders (Bosnia and Herzegovina), European Court of Human rights (Bulgaria), police (Croatia), EU (Macedonia), church (Romania) and educational institutions (Slovenia) are rated as intuitions with the highest confidence by the people.
• Generally speaking, this is a worrying sign about the next generation and it shows that this tolerance and acceptance of diversities is very limited.
• There is worrying signal of this dissatisfaction of young people of democracy in their country.
• Here is the answer why the young people do not believe in the political parties, because they do not feel represented.
• What is interesting for the young in SEE region is that the young people who are in EU show less support from young people who are not in EU.
• We have to figure that it cannot be prevent, and if we want to build united Europe we should see the labor mobility as an advantage.
• Youth is potentially a factor for change – a potential that needs encouragement and support – first of all, from within their societies, but, secondly, also from international and other European partners and actors. The research results indicate that a majority of young people do not feel that their interests are taken seriously either by democratic and political institutions or by their leaders in the countries of SEE.
Discussion and conclusions:• Most important values
among the young people on the Balkans: morality, solidarity, education, security;
• Understanding of volunteering is very important for the young people;
• In order our societies to be sustainable we have to be tolerant;
• A different young people in SEE have strong social ties;
• In democracy the political party is collective action – representative democracy. If we do not trust in political parties how we will organize the political life and democracy?
Are the radical ideologies a threat to democracy?
Mr Ramadan RamadaniPresident of NISMA Institute, Skopje, Macedonia• Populism is flirting
(manipulation) with the political views and stands.
• This manipulation in essence is core of manipulating with motions. Manipulations with love, hate, fear or hope. Manipulation is only
improvisation of articulation.• Manipulation with
nationalism, manipulation with religion and manipulation with patriotism all of these are threat of democracy. Manipulation with religion manifestation is affecting on the secularity of the country.
• Moral responsibility would consist of people and organization knowing the core principles of democracy not of manipulation.
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Mr Filip BalunovicPolitical scientist, Serbia• Radical ideologies are
chance for democratizing the undemocratic structure of our society today.
• The true happiness is radical act – radical act means finding what is possible in the sphere of impossible and only on this way we can reach happiness.
• The right ideas has never challenge the capitalist order and capitalist systematic essence framework, but has been more often use as more guardian of system.
• What is radical today in our region? What kind of acts and thought we should produce to challenge the roots of our societies here on the Balkans? And what kind of roots are Balkan roots? These roots are bloody roots made upon wars. The legacy
of these roots can be found in ethnic cleansing, mass murders and genocide. So the roots of our society are highly criminal. Therefore how we can challenge the roots of our system?
Discussion and conclusions:• In Balkans we have weaker
traditional democratic institutions and also we have weak history of having legal state;
• Any kind of religious politics is playing on the card of identity, any politics that is playing on identity cannot be universal. The radical politics are universal. The identity politics are excluding type of politics. Identity groups cannot be the radical politics;
• We need kind of decentralized resistance with regards to the relations of domination;
• Each answer in each society is unique and we should strive towards suitable solutions to the needs of our societies. What we need is consistent politics in the region;
• Good example of self - management “DITA” – the workers
decided to overtake the factory, the factory is own by the workers. This can be model for following;
• Primarily, we should start making cooperation between us in order to exchange our goods;
• You have to decide either to be satisfied or happy. It doesn’t mean that you will reach the happiness. That is risk, but the revolution is risky job. Be brave, risk fail. Try again, risk the fail.
• The dialogue with radical groups has to be maintained to convince them that their ideology is no solution whatsoever and integrate them back in the democratic society. Only by this democracy will survive and show its strength.
Who builds the reality – we or the media?
Mr Borjan Jovanovski Editor in Chief, NOVA TV• Media doesn’t create our
reality, they just shape our reality. You don’t have to believe in media.
• It’s up to the activism of young people and the civic society to make a concept from the new trend called citizen journalism which has to be in interaction with professional journalism.
• The key factor for creating /explaining the reality is situated in the investigative journalism. Moreover investigative journalism is key to explain the reality.
• The citizen journalism is future of journalism. The future of the media is for everyone to be their own
Mr. Mirza Softić Novinar.me; European Journalism Centre• The media often choose
which truth should be shared.
• On one side, we create the media, we create the context as a population. People create the context in which the media present the things, so basically we create the reality.
• Conclusions: - Remember that you are the one who creates your own reality and future
- Investigate - Take responsbility - Don’t blame anyone - Be happy
editor and chef to choose the journalist, the media and the topic you are interested in.
• Freedom of the media is a responsibility of any journalist and it’s obliged by law to respect norms and regulative but the lack of quality and the control imposed by the state which have some political interest or the private owners who had finical profits many journalist in the region are allowed to violate the law.
• There are professional and non-professional media, and not dependent or independent. Professional journalism means that besides the fact that you are dependent by many factors of the society you are able to provide professional product.
Discussion and conclusions:• Like human beans we have
to choose so maybe, we like media to create the reality. Truth is someone in the middle. We have to fight for truth;
• It is up to you. To get the proper and relevant information about the reality (to get the picture of reality). We create the reality, because we are reality;
• We really should appreciate the social media because some of us are here because of the social media;
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• In the region we have problem with people who do not read;
• According to Freedom House and Reporters without borders, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia have freedom of speech. In Croatia there are good independent media (e.g. Index.hr);
• The fact that the people are social media users doesn’t make them journalist or even relevant sources of reality;
• Responsibility of media is not making business;
• The future of the journalism are media which are the paid and control by the citizens and public interests;
• The donors are not influencing directly the media, but they decide about the media agenda;
• We need interaction between journalist, media and citizens. And NGOs are very important for mobilizing the citizens to
cooperate with the media. The key is interaction.
• We in the Balkans need relaxation!
• In a modern day society, such as ours, it is evident that he who controls the media controls ‘the reality’. With different media (social and traditional) targeting different groups, which more than naively trust what they see, how the government portrays reality through media is inevitably for their own benefit.
• Little attention has been given to the opportunities offered by the media to have greater and more positive impact on parents at a time when, by all accounts, such support is badly needed. Media is controlling our life and mind also large changes are happening rapidly by this major element so we need
to study it so it can have a positive impact in our lives.
• We need to manage to create a connection between media in several countries, so it could lead to a better given information in any form!
• By taking in consideration Harold’s theory we can create a balance between time – biased media and space – biased media. Time – biased media can help us take that kind of information that doesn’t generate information in a short time and stays with us as a partner in forming ourselves as individuals.
• The media are the tools in our hands. We choose how to use it. If we use it in the right way, for the benefit of the whole society, then this world will become a much better place to live.
Challenges or new beginnings?Mr Marko Vidojković Fanatic participant in 1996/1997 protests in Serbia• Every person who
participated in the protests against Slobodan Milosevic regime, was used for political benefits.
Mr Anatstas Vangeli Fanatic participant of #protestiram, 2015 protests in Skopje• May 2015 should be seen as
the point in time when for the first time in MK’s contemporary history local agency challenged power, structures and teleological thinking.
• The pick of civic movements in Macedonia of self-organized protest were the Student’s movement trying to overcome the problem of fragmentation/ depoliticization of causes, also practicing in direct democracy meaning they were organized in plenum (plenum-like decision making, no leaders, no official ‘representatives’).
• New politics vs. the Old - The Old: hegemony of those
• Young people in the region – you have to live your life and to try to do best for yourself.
• We must not lie our self in what kind of system we live. The world is for young people!
• The engine of the society in the end is the youth and it has to move towards challenging the system and achieving new progressive beginnings.
who have accumulated more resources (not necessarily meaning those in power), ‘rational choice,’ clientelism, fixed identities;
- The New: empowerment, counter-hegemony, idealism, transcending boundaries between different groups (give the microphone to some granny who never before was asked about her opinion);
• Some key tenets of the new politics
- Decentralization of the protests
- Grassroots radical democracy • Connection with
transnational movements • “Women’s revolution” +
feminized democracy • Movement “beyond
ethnicity” – the movement enrich the citizens.
• Conflict is the root of all dialectics and without conflict we cannot better reality and we cannot reach better conclusions.
• The road ahead – creation of our own model
Discussions and research:• Just because we come from
the Balkans…. we are actually advantaged with coming new ideas. There are a lot of challenges here as economic periphery, brain drain … and that’s way we need solution that will come from us.
Therefore the transition was so hard, because we look in the ideas somewhere;
• There is no bad time for mobilizing and starting changes. But to mobilize for what?
• The venue at the end of day is society. We need to move beyond this goals and objectives;
• 1. Movement as type of group of certain individuals; 2. Movement in the society How to keep the movement? We should to focus on the second – movement in the society;
• Political parties, movements, organizations are instruments for developing our ideas;
• Rationality after emotionality for bringing people up it is important;
• If in the core group is intellectual base, than the rationality side is inside of the movement;
• Students are the brain and the future of the society and therefore they have to be the engine of the society. Students should be in permanent movement in their society. Young people (students) are the future of the country, than they should act like this;
• We have to be aware that between the politicians are people. We have learn how to distinguish people who are willing to do something and people who do not care.
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Conference effectiveness Action PlaningResults from the conducted poll after IYC 2015
56%44%
89%
11%
62%
38%
Inspired to actAs a result of attending a International Youth Conference 2015:
• 85% were inspired to found an initiative• 68% were inspired to get involved with
an initiative
SkillsAs a result of International Youth Conference 2015:
89% gained a new skill, insight or best practice that improved their work
CollaborationAs a result of International Youth Conference:
62% made connections with regional young leaders with whom they have collaborated on an initiative
Balkan brain drain
Digital destiny
Urban innovation
Gamification & Education
Circular econcomy
Rural entreprenurship
Foot causes of the refuge
crises
Balkan Values VS European Values?
Nationalism Sport &
ReconcilationAct with integrity
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THANK YOU!
THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CONFERENCE WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT YOU!
Youth Alliance Krusevo, the organizer of the International Youth Conference “European Values for the Future of Southeastern European Countries”, would like to thanks first of all to the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe sponsored by Germany for the continuous support. A special gratitude goes to our long term partner and supporter of our activities, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Office Skopje. Furthermore, the polish group supported by the Polish Embassy in Skopje brought to the conference fresh energy, dynamic and diverisity. Hereby, thanks to the Embasy.
Also, we would like to thank to all partners, institutions and participants for their contributions and dedication before and during the project event.
A special thanks to the International Preparatory Group: Iztok Zver; Jasmina Cerneka; Nemanja Zivković; Senad Alibegovic; Illie Chiorchina; Sanja Sisovic and Silvia Crocitta. Gratitude to all staff and volunteers without whom the International Youth Conference would not have been so perfectly organised!
Youth Alliance Krusevo“Mise Eftim” 1A, 7550 Krusevo, FYR MacedoniaTel: +389 (0) 48 476 766 – Fax: +389 (0) 400 [email protected]
This publication is based on the 13th International Youth Conference “European Values for the Future of Southeastern European Countries” 2015, that served as a forum for discussions and reflections of young leaders from SEE as one of the main creative and productive forces of the region, whose ideals and aspirations will underpin the development of a prosperous, democratic and stable region in the framework of the European Union.
The Conference was organized by Youth Alliance - Krusevo in partnership with Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Office Skopje, supported by Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe sponsored by Germany and Polish Embassy in Skopje.
Coordination, writing & editing:Youth Alliance Krusevo str. Mise Eftim 1a, 7550 [email protected]
You can find this brochure and other information, results and outcomes form the IYC 2015 online at: www.krusevoconference.org.mk
Reproduction is authorized. For any use or reproduction of individual photos, permission must be sought directly from the copyright holders.
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