Details of the member organisation / center

• Name: Youth center Krško
• Street address: Cesta krških žrtev 105
• Postcode: 8270
• City: Krško
• Region: Posavje
• Country: Slovenia
• Email: info@mc-krsko.si
• Website: www.mc-krsko.si
• Telephone: +38674882286
• Telefax: +38674882283

Contact person

• Ms Mitja Valentinc
• Position/function: director
• Contact Email: mitja.valentinc@mc-krsko.si
• Contact Telephone: +38641637661

Profile of the member organisation/center

• Type of organisation: youth center
• Status of organisation: governmental/public
• Activity level of organisation local

Short description of organisation / center:

• established in 2001 by the Municipality of Krško
• app. 12 employees
• app. 100 volunteers
• have one cities youth center and 4 youth spots in rural area
• great infrastructure (multimedia studio, 2 conference rooms, hall, climbing wall, computers room, youth hostel,…)
• 8 local NGO-s have their premacies in our center
• informing center, multimedia center, international work, children activities, club & culture field, prevention programs

Integration the intercultural learning, human rights education and education for active citizenship in its activities:

• school programs (active citizenship lessons)
• youth democracy projects
• involved in planning local, regional youth strategy,…
• structure dialogue with politicians
• human rights workshops (through multimedia) and international projects on that topics
• involving disadvantaged youngsters into our projects

Our experience in organization of international youth activities and the training of youth workers in multinational and multicultural context:

• sending, hosting org. for EVS; app 25 volunteers hosted and app. 5 sent
• group EVS projects
• youth exchanges
• youth initiatives
• democracy projects
• twinned towns
• we participate on trainings for youth workers abroad

The mechanisms we use in our organization / center in terms of ensuring the participation of young people in preparation and realization of our activities:

• informing young people on a personal level
• to support young people that they organize their ideas by themselves
• active participation of young people

Where we see the role of our organization / center in promotion and implementation of the youth policies of Council of Europe in our country, region and internationally:

• by being involved in the ENYC, in international projects
• by attend (via using web or attend meetings) dialogue about important questions in the youth field

The facilities of your organization / center (accommodation, educational facilities, training staff, specific methodologies etc.):

• youth hostel (27 beds) – great facilities (described in the first line)
• 12 fully employed staff (experienced)
• great relations with schools, municipality, other NGO-s and youth org. on local/regional/national level
• reliable partner
• learning by doing methods; group work

Our priorities / fields of interest for cooperation with other members of the Network in the sphere of intercultural learning:

• working together and sharing experience
• have the same vision in the youth field.