Cross-border cooperation on youth entrepreneurship development and promotion is international training which will gather youth workers active in the field of youth self-employment. This 5-day training (excluding travel days) is going to be organized in Novi Sad, Serbia, from 15th – 21st January 2010.

We are going to organize this training because we feel that one of positive solutions to youth unemployment problem is entrepreneurship education of youngsters and that self-employment needs to be more seriously considered by youngsters, as well as those providing youth with services in area of self-employment support, as viable income-generation option and as an alternative to job seeking.

If you are from Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovakia, Hungary or Romania, and are a project manager actively and directly involved in youth self-employment projects at local, national, regional and/or international level, you can apply for this training by the 25th of January 2010.

Here is the official Call for participants and Application form.

People’s Parliament began implementation of a national project “People’s initiative”, in cooperation with several NGO’s from Belgrade, Pozega, Novi Sad and Negotin.

We started this legislative project due to restrictiveness of the actual Law on referendum and people’s initiative and related regulations, as well as parts of the Law on local self-governance who deal with local people’s initiatives.

Above mentioned laws currently restrict democratic rights of citizens of Serbia to propose legislative solutions to legislators through so called “people’s initiatives”. Evaluating parts of concerned legislations which deal with the length of the signature’s collection process from citizens supporting a people’s initiative, as well as a required number of signatures that need to be collected, we came to the conclusion that current legislative acts are too restrictive, especially when compared to similar laws in numerous European countries. In reality this laws currently make it harder for citizen’s to participate in legislative roles.

Because of the above mentioned, and some other reasons, we plan to develop and propose to legislators amendments to the Law on referendum and people’s initiative, amendments to the Law on local self-governance (especially Article 68.) and various sub-legislative acts that regulate people’s initiatives. This will be done during 10 months period, until middle of 2010. Also, we plan to organize a public campaign that will introduce the project to a wider auditorium and give it a chance to participate in it.

More information on this project and activities organized are available at www.narodnainicijativa.rs.

During September 2009 we’ve organized a training in Vlasina Lake in Serbia, called “Advancing tolerance among youth from South Serbia”. This training gathered 25 youth of different nationalities from South Serbia.

Couple of photos from this training can be seen on our main page and all can be seen on our Flickr photostream.

The project is supported by European Youth Foundation.

On July the 5th this year, it will be exactly 10 years from the beginning of civic protests in Leskovac.

These protests continuously lasted for 44 days and gathered many thousands of citizens of Leskovac and surrounding areas. The civic protests practically represented the beginning of the existence of People’s Parliament, the organization that shortly after the end of the protests, articulated voice of citizens that was expressed during these civic protests.

More on these civic protests can be learned on our Internet presentation

For the fifth time European Youth Foundation decided to support our work.

On this ocassion, through “Advancing tolerance and peace among young people in southern Serbia” project, People’s Parliament will work on human rights education of young people from southern Serbia, as well as building of tolerance and understanding between young people of different ethnic backgrounds.