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Veljko Avramović represents Development Center for Youth at the first international meeting aimed at networking and joint development of project ideas, organized by our long-term partner, the United Societies of Balkans (USB) in Thessaloniki from December 6 to 10.

With the support of the European Commission, USB gathered almost 20 European organizations dealing with various fields within the EU program, all with the aim of establishing and intensifying cooperation, exchanging project ideas and preparing for their joint submission in 2023.

Young trade union members are not just a number in their general statistics – they are a driving force that can influence the needs and priorities of young people through their actions, affecting the entire society.

The concept of life champions continues to develop, from December 1 also with the support of the UEFA Foundation for Children, which recognized the value and importance of proposed idea to create a new generation of active and thinking citizens using sport as an important tool of education. The foundation that promotes the message that every child is a champion in the open call for projects for 2022 has shown that it values the ideas contained in the concept of life champions, supporting the partnership of Development Center for Youth with DEKI5 football camp and the Pandev Academy.

Wishing to remind that sport is not only about high fees, advertisements, elite competitions, but that in its essence there are socializing, fair play, learning true values and individual development, Development Center for Youth from Belgrade presented in 2019 the concept of “Life Champions”. The concept focuses on creation of good people – life champions, starting from the importance of the role of trainers as educators and pedagogues, but also of parents and club management as significant support in the process itself.

That FC Barcelona is “more than a club” has been confirmed by the meeting held at the Barcelona Football Academy by Aleksandra Knežević, program director of Development Center for Youth and coordinator of the Life Champions concept, and Jordi Arasa, technical coordinator APAC of Barça Academy.

After successfully realized activities for young people in France and Greece, in Lima (Peru) on September 14-15 meeting of the representatives of partner organizations on the project “Environmental Mobility By Raising Awareness on Changing our Earth – EMBRACE”, whose coordinator is the USB from Greece, took place.

Program coordinator of DC Youth Aleksandra Knežević showed that weekends could be filled with positive energy and good ideas even when they were the working ones. From September 9-11, she was in Montenegro, in parallel activities with the Trade Union of Employees in the Communal-Housing Sector of Serbia (Budva) and the Trade Union of Administration and Justice of Montenegro (Kotor).

Activities of the “Environmental Mobility By Raising Awareness on Changing our Earth – EMBRACE” project continued in Greece, where Development Center for Youth was represented by a five-member delegation.