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As part of the DoUth project, in November CZOR hosted three online masterclasses for youth workers across the Western Balkans – focused on Artivism, Doughnut Economy, and Social Entrepreneurship. The trainings brought together practitioners from the region to explore innovative methods that help young people express themselves creatively, understand sustainability in a practical way, and design meaningful community initiatives.
Each masterclass combined short inputs with hands-on exercises, peer work, and real examples that youth workers can immediately apply in their daily practice. Participants highlighted the value of interactive tasks, practical tools, and approaches that strengthen youth agency, problem-solving and community engagement.
These sessions are an important step in building a shared regional learning space – and in supporting youth workers to empower young people through creativity, critical thinking and social innovation.
These masterclasses also lay the groundwork for the upcoming activities in Work Package 3, where youth workers will play a key role in supporting young people throughout the next project phase. The skills and tools gained through Artivism, Doughnut Economy and Social Entrepreneurship will be directly applied as youth begin developing their own ideas within:
- Youngsters run Brain Gain pilot projects – youth-led micro initiatives shaped through creative, sustainable and socially impactful methods introduced in the masterclasses;
- SE Challenge – a regional challenge where young people will design and pitch small-scale social entrepreneurship solutions to real community problems;
- Brain Gain Summit – a regional event bringing together youth, youth workers and partners to showcase results, exchange practices and strengthen cross-border collaboration.
By completing these masterclasses, youth workers are now better equipped to guide, mentor and support young people throughout these upcoming processes, ensuring that the methodologies learned translate into real action and meaningful impact across the Western Balkans.
If you want to learn more, read our short story from the masterclasses.
The project DoYou(th), funded by the European Union, is implemented by SIT Center for Counseling, Social Services and Research (Kosovo*), Act for Society Center (Albania), Centre for youth work – CZOR (Serbia), Institute for Population and Development (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with MasterPeace (Netherlands) and Growunited (Germany).
Serbian version:
U okviru projekta DoUth, CZOR je organizovao tri onlajn masterklasa za omladinske radnike širom regiona – na teme artivizma, ekonomije krofne i socijalnog preduzetništva. Obuke su okupile praktičare iz Zapadnog Balkana kako bi istražili inovativne metode koje pomažu mladima da se kreativno izraze, razumeju održivost na praktičan način i kreiraju značajne inicijative u zajednici.
Svaki masterklas je kombinovao kratka uvodna predavanja sa praktičnim vežbama, radom u grupama i konkretnim primerima koje omladinski radnici mogu odmah primeniti. Učesnici su istakli vrednost interaktivnih zadataka, upotrebljivih alata i pristupa koji jačaju agenciju mladih, rešavanje problema i angažman u zajednici.
Ove sesije predstavljaju važan korak u izgradnji zajedničkog regionalnog prostora za učenje – i u podršci omladinskim radnicima da osnaže mlade kroz kreativnost, kritičko mišljenje i društvene inovacije.
Ovi masterklasovi predstavljaju i ključnu osnovu za naredne aktivnosti u okviru Radnog paketa 3, u kojima će omladinski radnici imati centralnu ulogu u podršci mladima tokom sledeće faze projekta. Veštine i alati stečeni kroz Artivizam, Ekonomiju krofne i Socijalno preduzetništvo direktno će se primenjivati kada mladi krenu da razvijaju sopstvene ideje kroz:
- Brain Gain pilot projekti – omladinske mikro inicijative zasnovane na kreativnim, održivim i društveno korisnim pristupima predstavljenim na masterklasovima;
- SE Challenge – regionalni izazov u okviru kog će mladi osmišljavati i predstavljati mala socijalno-preduzetnička rešenja za konkretne probleme u zajednici;
- Brain Gain Summit – regionalni događaj koji okuplja mlade, omladinske radnike i partnere radi predstavljanja rezultata, razmene praksi i jačanja saradnje u regionu.
Zahvaljujući masterklasovima, omladinski radnici sada poseduju znanja i metode koje im omogućavaju da efikasno vode i podrže mlade tokom ovih procesa, kako bi se naučeno pretvorilo u stvarne akcije i vidljiv uticaj širom Zapadnog Balkana.
Ukoliko želite da saznate više, pročitajte našu kratku priču sa masterklasova.
Projekat DoYou(th), finansira Evropska unija, a realizuju SIT Center for Counseling, Social Services and Research (Kosovo*), Act for Society Center (Albanija), CZOR (Srbija), Institute for Population and Development (Bosna i Hercegovina), u saradnji sa MasterPeace (Holandija) i Growunited (Nemačka).