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EVS - Encourage Volunteering in Skopje
Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Institute for Political and International Studies is an organization with high experience in work with young people and international cooperation. Therefore, they are very much aware of the obstacles and the challenges youngsters face nowadays. State Universities in Macedonia offer high level of a theory education, but there is a lack of practice which indeed can be gained through non formal education. Through multiethnic workshops for sharping professional skills (more precisely: workshops about communication and leadership skills, about how to conduct during the first interview for a job, how to prepare a good CV, how to write a motivation letter, how to write business plan, financial literacy, time management, improving negotiation and self presentation skills), we will prepare young unemployed people from Skopje to become more competent in the labor market. It will be a cycle of workshops that will last for ten months. Skopje is a city with multiethnic environment where different ethnicities live: Macedonians, Albanians, Turks and Roma population. Prejudices on ethnic basis are strongly present and with the aim to overcome them we will ensure that the participants on the workshops are with different ethnic background. Indirectly, through team work during the workshops, young people will get to know each other better and new multiethnic friendships will rise. The volunteer will mediate in this process as well as will help the hosting organization in preparing those workshops, also will assists in organizing conferences which IPIS is organizing in international level. The Austrian volunteer who will come will share their experience from living in a multiethnic environment and help local youngsters start seeing their differences as an advantage rather than an obstacle. The project will last 10 months and will take place in Skopje.
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