Current Projects

Media:

• Time Out Magazin

  • Time Out is a bilingual, monthly youth magazine for high-school students, created and distributed by youth volunteers with the support of the professional IPK team. Every month, IPK publishes 1900 Macedonian and 1100 Albanian copies of the free youth magazine and distributes it in the four high schools in the Kumanovo and Lipkovo Municipality. Since the foundation of IPK in 2003, the magazine has been one of the main driving forces behind the organization.

• Youth Bridges
  • Youth Bridges is a bimonthly magazine created by young journalists, published in Macedonian, Serbian and Albanian. The magazine is focused on promoting multi-ethnic and cross border cooperation. The new edition is published the end of March 2008.
    

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• Local Youth Strategy

  • On the 27th of February 2008, the Council of the Municipality of Kumanovo, approved the Local Youth Strategy (2008-2013) and the Action Plan for Implementation (2008-2010). Kumanovo became the first municipality in Macedonia that have adapted Local Youth Strategy and Action plan for implementation. IPK initiated the development of a local youth policy in cooperation with the municipality of Kumanovo and other NGO's from Kumanovo. A draft for the strategy was designed during five workshops, with participants from Youth NGO's from Kumanovo and representatives from the local community. Also an Action Plan for the implementation of the Local Youth Strategy was created. Public dictation about LYS was held at the 27th of December 2007.

• Training for participants of Youth representative's bodies in high schools
  • IPK started with the training of representative bodies from the Gymnasium "Goce Delcev" from Kumanovo and Lipkovo and high school "Pero Nakov" from Kumanovo. The first training session was held on 8 and 9 March in Kumanovo and sessions will continue during 2008. The aim of the seminars is to increase the capacity of youth representative bodies and their active participation in the school life.

• Proactive! Youth development through Non-formal education
  • Together with Skopje based NGO Triagolnik, IPK has started the implementation of the Proactive! Project. This long-term project is sponsored by the Pestalozzi Foundation in Switzerland and aims at empowering youth and promoting youth work in the community as a valuable tool for young people's intra- and interpersonal development. From April 2008 IPK will start organizing trainings and Youth Clubs for teachers and students in the field of non-formal education.