Open Call: Act Your Way

Are you a young person, aged 18 to 28, living in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania or North Macedonia and you want to become more active in your community and build a better present and future?

With “Act Your Way”, a Youth Lab organized by the Schüler Helfen Leben Foundation, you can learn how to be a civic actor and develop your own form of active participation in your local reality!

About Act Your Way

For one whole week, from the 13th to the 19th of November, you will have the chance to meet 25 youngsters like you from all around the Western Balkans, who share your belief that a change is needed and, just like you, want to be a part of it! You will explore many different forms and ways of doing activism and being active on the topic you care about, with multiple experts who will give you the support you need to take your first steps to make a difference in your present.

Whether you’re interested in how to engage in meaningful participation, the power, influences and opportunities or the different levels and barriers to youth engagement, or even if you care more about organizing your community or influencing decision makers with advocacy, campaigning and storytelling, or even if you want to approach your peers to engage them in joining you in bringing the change you would like to see into reality, Act Your Way is exactly the right opportunity to deep dive into all of these topics, and way more!

You will also have the chance, alongside your fellow participants, to focus on the issues that you all actually care about, and not just what everyone thinks you should focus on, for some reason!

All the activities will take place in SHL House in Sarajevo, a space built by volunteers for young people to train, engage and participate safely in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Target Group

Are you…

1. Aged between 18 and 28;
2. Living in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania or North Macedonia;
3. able to keep up with the seminar being fully in English;
4. interested in being an active agent of Participation, Civic Action and Social Cohesion in your local community or learning more about it.

Act Your Way is your space to experiment, ask questions, learn and meet new people that share your interests and your belief that you can be the change you want to see.

Application, fees and costs

You can apply to participate in the Youth Lab by filling out this form with your basic data and motivation. Participating to this training is completely free of charge for you: no participation fee is requested or needed in any phase of the process and all the travel, accommodation and food costs will be covered by Schüler Helfen Leben.

What are you waiting for? Fill out the form and send us your application, we’re looking forward to meeting you in Sarajevo!

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The regional United Nations initiative ‘Youth 4 Inclusion, Equality & Trust’ empowers young people to engage in constructive narratives, strengthen intercultural dialogue, inclusion, gender equality and create mutual understanding and trust. Collaboratively, UNESCO, UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women, and relevant partners from the public sector, media, civil society, academia and culture – are working together with youth to increase comprehension and respect for diversity in the region, financially supported by the UN Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund.

Regionalna inicijativa Ujedinjenih nacija „Youth 4 Inclusion, Equality & Trust“ (Mladi za inkluziju, jednakost i povjerenje) osnažuje mlade ljude da se aktivno uključuju u izgradnju konstruktivnih narativa, jačanje interkulturalnog dijaloga, inkluzije, rodne ravnopravnosti te međusobnog razumijevanja i povjerenja.

UNESCO, UNDP, UNFPA i UN Women, zajedno sa relevantnim partnerima iz javnog sektora, medija, civilnog društva, akademske zajednice i sektora kulture, rade u partnerstvu s mladima na unapređenju razumijevanja i poštovanja različitosti u regionu. Inicijativa se realizuje uz finansijsku podršku Fonda za izgradnju mira generalnog sekretara Ujedinjenih nacija (UN Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund).