Since beginning of February, in the premises of Regional Info-centre for Youth in Split, Rijeka, Zagreb, Osijek and Info-centre for Youth in Vukovar and Sisak, Euro Info Corners are open and available for young people. Euro info corners are designed as central place that offers information about EU values and standards, possibilities for young people in Croatia and Europe, as well as information about Croatian accession process towards EU. Beside information available via Internet ...

On Saturday, 30th of January, the first workshop of Program of support to youth entrepreneurship - «Fast forward into Entrepreneurship» was organized in the premises of PRONI Centre for Social Education. This program was organized by Vukovar Development Agency, City of Vukovar and PRONI Centre for Social Education with the aim to train ten participants how to transfer own ideas into business ides, write business plan, but also to stimulated them on entrepreneurship thinking and starting own business.

Communication strategy with youth / beneficiaries of Info centre for youth services, creation of informing directions towards youth, and Euro Info Corner as tool for informing about EU values and standards, and possibilities for young people in the accession process of Croatia toward EU, were some of the themes discussed during 3-day Kick off strategy meeting held in Pirovac from 21st to 24th of January. Three-day meeting, aiming at developing the communication strategy toward youngsters, as well as balancing the work of Info centres for youth in this field of work, was organized within the project EUphoria, which is financed by EU through program IPA INFO 2008.

What is needed to create qualitative project proposal, and what are the steps, it was the topic of training on which young people from the Association of Youth Bac from Bac, Serbia, participated.

Training is held on 16th of January, and it was another in a series that aims to raise the level of knowledge of leaders and members of mentioned youth associations, as well as to contribute to the development and associations' sustainability.
Training is held within the project Youth Link 2. The funding for this project is provided by The Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

In the city hall of the City of Vukovar, the education for 30 people from Vukovar, and employees of the City of Vukovar, has started on 13th of January 2010.

Trainers from PRONI Centre for Social Education are implementing program lasting for 45 hours, using methodology of Project Cycle Management.

At the beginning of December, in Rotterdam was organized 20th General Assembly of European Youth Information and Counseling Agency.

After just one year of development and having status of affiliated organization, Association of Youth Info Centers in Croatia, which co-founder is PRONI Center too, the Board of ERYICA welcomes Association as full member with immediately effect.

By becoming full member and by recognition of ERYICA, the additionally qualitative development of youth information work in Croatia is enabled. 

Please read Minutes from General Assembly.

In Regional Info-centre for Youth Osijek, on 16th of December 2009. the first partner meeting within project EUphoria took place. Partners are: INFO Zone from Split, Step ahead from Rijeka and Imagine from Zagreb.
PRONI Centre is the main implementing partner of the project which is financially supported by EU, through program IPA Info 2008.
This was a first among four planned meetings, aiming at introducing partners with project details and joint planning of coming implementation steps.

Last week, the NGOs from Vukovar promoted the Week of Activism and Voluntarism (27.11.-05.12.). Among other events, it was organized round table: Crises of voluntary work or crises of community, on which the results of research about voluntarism among young people in Vukovar was presented.

The research, implemented by PRONI Centre, among high school pupils and students (in total 162  persons) showed that voluntary work is not an unknown term, and that almost 42 % of young people are ready to get involved into voluntary work. Also, the research showed that girls are much readier than get involved than man.

Within the commemoration day of Vukovar, a live TV-broadcasting by national TV station HRT, was organized in the premises of Info-centre for Youth Vukovar. The theme of TV emission “Croatia Live” was life of civil society organizations in the city of Vukovar. Therefore, the guests were representatives of 8 civil society organizations from the city (VIMIO, TABU, EDVU, PRONI, Info-centre for youth, Paloma, Tourist guides; Vukovar iskrice) and the mayor Mr. Zeljko Sabo.