Report by Darko Dimitrioski From the 10th to the 16th of October, 2 youth workers from TACC have participated at the seminar “Standards for Open Youth Centres in Europe” in Berlin (Germany), together with other youth professionals working at youth centres in Germany, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Italy, Romania and Serbia. The project was developed as support of a strategic partnership named "Open Youth Work For Open Society - Give A Chance To Informal Youth Centres", consisting of an youth exchange and a seminar, and TACC was partner at the seminar activity. The seminar “Standards for Open Youth Centres in Europe” aimed to improve the task at the youth centres and the youth spaces in their territories, by sharing experiences and reflections through common standards, and to do so, three working groups were established: 'Facilities and equipment of youth centres', 'Activities of youth centres' and 'Professional profile of staff in youth centres'.
During the seminar, the youth professionals had the chance to visit different youth facilities and to work on a data base of youth centres, the benefits of youth facilities and the work of youthwork. The professionals summed it up as an interesting seminar in which exchanging many ideas of youth work and they have concluded that, despite the differences between the spaces of each country, they need to respond to both their intentions and the interests of young people. Finally, as part of the activities, and the closure action of the seminar, they did a livestream “Symposium Youth Work in Europe” last Friday the 15th of October.
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