The competition is organized by the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO), United Nation Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) in cooperation with Mozaik Foundation (Mozaik), Beyond42, and Mašta. The aim is to bring together 120 youth advocates from Western Balkan 6 (WB6), to propose policy solutions relating to the most pressing regional issues:
· Education – quality and reform of education in the region to better answer the challenges of the 21st century;
· Youth Mobility – mobility of youth in the region for study, travel, work, and learning;
· Peace and Legacy of the Past – burdening legacy of trauma inherited by the post-conflict generations.
Participants will be grouped into teams of 3-6 that will focus on one of the three challenges. They will receive mentorship from outstanding professionals who have experience creating regional policies. Teams that authored the top 3 policies for each of the 3 challenges will get valuable awards:
🥇 1st Place per challenge – all team member get Amazon Kindle + $150 gift card
🥈 2nd Place per challenge – all team member get $100 gift card
🥉 3rd Place per challenge – all team member get $50 gift card
Aside from that, the best policies will be published in the WB6 Youth Policy Book and the Guide for Innovative Policy Making.
Applications are open until April 14th at 12:00 (GMT+2) 2021.
To find out more about the competition or to apply, visit http://bit.ly/RYPL21apply For all inquiries, please contact [email protected].
Musically talented Roma children and youth have lack of access to musical instruments and music education due to living in poverty and social exclusion. The Roma Rock School (RRS) is working with Roma pupils from the biggest Roma settlement in Europe, Shuto Orizari – N. Macedonia using an unique curriculum combining Rock with Roma traditional music. Make your donation to support this socially innovative program of securing free music education and future music career of Roma children and youth.
The Roma children have the lowest rate of school attendance and highest level of dropout in North Macedonia, considering deep poverty of their families. The access to private musical schools and education is even more difficult considering the high cost for artistic education and purchasing musical instruments. Unfortunately, the 3 years’ project of RRS supporting Roma children has ended. Your donation will secure at least 30 talented but poor Roma children to continue their music education.
From 70 student enrolled in last 3 years, around 30 are still active within the program of RRS. Most of them come from poor families. Despite their huge musical talent, their parents can’t afford to buy an instrument. Not being able to attend music school and not having an instrument leads to giving up their dream of being a professional musician. In addition to band sections and instrument lessons, we help students learn to read notes and prepare them to enroll in music high school and college.
Besides music, the team of Roma Rock School works to increase awareness of the importance of education and keep children off the streets. Our long-term goal is to help at least 10 students enroll in music high school and return at least 100 students to regular primary and secondary education. This project will inspire and motivate the next generations to work in the realization of their music career and current students to become music instructors in Roma Rock School and other music school.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
http://www.romarockschool.org
https://romarockschool.org/
https://www.facebook.com/romarockschool
https://www.instagram.com/romarockschool/?hl=en
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7uLygNExf4
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