Vega Youth Center / Omladinski centar Vega

Vega Youth Center is a non-profit, non-governmental youth organization founded in December 2000 in Belgrade. Vega is dedicated in building a quality environment for the growth and development of children and youth. Through the promotion of creative work, culture, new technologies, activism, self-organization and non-formal education we want to encourage the sustainability of young people’s actions. Vega is organizing media literacy and media activism trainings since 2009, on the local level (in cooperation with different municipalities in Belgrade) and on the international level through youth European projects. Moreover it has organised several youth exchanges, seminars and partnership building activities through the Youth In Action program and has participated in several of these as partner. As EVS accredited organization Vega has hosted until now 6 volunteers while it sent about 30 volunteers abroad. In addition, on the local level Vega YC is organising media literacy and artistic workshops for children in cooperation with cultural centers in Belgrade.