Youth Association Step

The activities and experience of the organization in the areas relevant for the full understanding of why our youth organization would be the ideal partner for any of your future youth exhanges/training courses regarding personal youth development, everyday communication, aiding in development of a certain aspect of youth identity as such (being a part of a certain individual culture, but at the same time being a part of a bigger, European collective; youth exchanges/training courses focused on helping youth develop a healthy and sustainable frame of communcation and taking proper actions in order to establish and maintain a high level of competences needed for understanding all the tasks and responsibilites when it comes to being a highly effective person who promotes a democratic lifestlyle within a local, regional, national and international community; aiming to better youth as a powerful and potent members of our society capable of leaving positive long-lasting impacts on our community in all aspects – be it everyday communication, tolerance, organizational help or aiding in personal development of other citizens directed by youth members of our organization; social inclusion of all people and individuals thus securing and maintaining a certain level of social cohesion within our local and regional community) are the following: • our youth association is a non-profit, non-government owned organization focused solely on youth work and developing a healthy understanding of basic and advanced rights and needs of a highly-functioning individual in a democratic community which often exacts the need for a high level of expressing one`s thoughts and emotions concerning certain profound topics in everday communication (personal development, social cohesion, discussions regarding certain political or social topics). The vision of our youth association is to aid youth in constructing, developing and maintaining a healthy and competent frame of social, personal and professional skills, as well as certain mechanisms of understanding the concepct of a democratic citizenship and finding their place within the complex elements of everday challenges regarding aforementioned topics. • the main idea of our youth association is to aid motivated and highly competent invidivuals in personal and professional development in all areas of competence needed in order to function in everyday life. One of our main focuses is to help youth understand the meaning of knowing and comprehension of all the complex elements hidden behind the concept of democratic citizenship. As a part of the European family, certain political and societal aspects of everyday life force all people (but especially youth) to adapt their resepctive lifestyles and make certain adjustments and room to familiarize themselves with elements, ideas and mechanisms of democratic citizenships. Due to the lack of relevant and high-quality information on the topic, this path can sometimes be difficult and disorienting, resulting in partial or at times non-existent comprehension of this specific topic. This can lead to dysmorphic development of personal and professional skills, as well as troubles regarding the development of one`s identity, sense of belonging and lack of general orientation in life. Our youth association is aiming to be the perfect vector to help youth navigate themselves around this complex topic and build personalized structures and mechanisms aiding them in fully overcoming all obstacles when it comes to understanding the concept of democratic citizenship and ways of practicing this highly sensitive, but inevitable phenomenon of modern day society in Croatia, Europe and beyond. Only a well informed and competent individual can one day lead other individuals and help the local community in bettering themselves. In what other better way to start than with working on themselves and bringing themselves out of their comfort zones. A well informed and highly motivated team of young individuals from Croatia and regional countries connected with the same love and affection for youth work discussed their ideas and visions and on the 18th December 2023 founded Youth Association „Step“ (Udruga mladih „Korak“). The President of our youth association is a perspecitve and higly competent individual whose aims and visions are concentrated towards informing and developing youth in all forms and aspects. As an experienced individual with extensive and impressive experience working with youth of all profiles, our President is predominantly focused on bettering the local, regional and national community in Croatia by using means of informing and educating youth in areas which are needed the most in today`s society – that firstly includes: • understanding the key concepts of the idea of a democratic citizenship (how to define it, what does it mean to be an active democratic citizen, how to adapt our lifestyle and implement its doctrines and key elements in personal and professional development, and how to communicate those ideas to other interested individuals in our community) • the idea of the concept of personal and professional development in the areas of tolerance, communication and active participation in everyday life • personal development in the realms of expressing oneself regarding the topic of democratic citizenship, as well as other topics concerning youth and their personal development as a part of the local community • aiding youth in implementing newly consumed information and newly deveoloped competencies and knowledge in bettering and developing the local communities by conduting various disseminations, workshops and other social activities profound and benevolent in character • helping young and motivated individuals express themselves on certain topics (manily focusing on the aforementioned ones) in different ways – artistical, written, graphical, musical, photo, video, etc. Due to the fact that the youth association is focused on working with youth in developing their qualities and competences by using a platform of ideas which mainly concern certain elements of history, political science, rhetorics, literature, economy and human rights, as well as social aspects of all aforementioned sciences, it was made sure that all the individuals who participated in forming and contributing to the work of this youth association possess high level competencies which will aid in bettering our youth association, the quality of our programe and our visions and ideas in the future. Our higly motivated and competent team with extensive experience in participating, developing and disseminating various youth exhanges, training courses and workshops with other partner youth associations will be present at all times of our work and development to make sure all the ideas and visions of the youth association are met and performed up to our expected standards. Due to our flexbility when it comes to adapting to your youth association needs or ideas we think we would be a high quality partner association to plan your projects with. Even though our aims, goals and visions are extremely important to us, we are after all a big Euopean and global family. We consider it highly important to actively listen to others and aim to make every topic interdisciplinary and available to all interested individuals in different shapes and forms. After all, a part of the idea of a democratic citizenship concerns the idea of merging ideas and visions together and listening to others, simultaneously respecting their individual creations and visions.