Youth Engagement

The YES project aims to strengthen youth participation and youth structures, in order for young Kosovars to  actively involve in challenging and responsible actions to improve the life in their community.  In addition, the project supports innovative and creative learning methods as important instruments to equip young people with skills and knowledge they need in the labour market.

• The activities are implemented in close cooperation with youth centers, civil society and makerspaces in Kosovo and include: Soft skills trainings -strengthening youth employability through improving communication skills, self-motivation, team-work, leadership, problem solving and many more.
• Soft skills trainings combined with career fair and internship placement for young unemployed of ethnic minorities in North Kosovo were implemented in cooperation with the civil society organization and local businesses.
• Youth Talks – in this format young people exchange and learn from their peers who benefited from i. e. volunteering, trainings or internships and are now employed or self-employed and sharing their success stories.
• Youth engagement activities – with Youth Centers and civil society we raised awareness among youth for their rights, active participation in public life and labour market in order to strengthen youth participation and involvement in community life.
• Short term vocational trainings in gastronomy, tailoring, IT, photography, handicrafts also addressing people with down syndrome.
• Supporting innovative makerspaces as Bonevet Prishtina; an creative learning environment where children and young people are encouraged to discover their talents and abilities through advanced technology and play.
• Diaspora School of Kosovo – apeer to peer event that facilitates collaboration between youth professionals form Kosovo, the Balkan region and diaspora on finding solutions that address local economic growth in Prizren and Malisheva. Subsequent distribution of small grants for project ideas aiming to improve life of the two communities