yoi08 research group: Youth Organizing II – General

How to organize a youth club
Members: Kris, Sanja, Georgi, Tamara, Simona, Gligor, Sase

In our project we defined the proces of forming and organizing the youth centre. We were dealing with phases of forming the goals of a centre, sharing the work obligations within the members of a club and the process of performing activities. We also preformed interwievs with organizers of different youth cloubs and we made comparisons beetwen the different ways of organizing.
The aim of our research was to clarify the basic procedure every youth center has to go through during its forming phase.

COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE DURING THE PRESENTATION

- the question I would like be left with is about how to work both on an entertainment level while at the same time being able to motivate people into action / to increase their awareness around issues of social inequality.

- my experience is that questionnaires are really not that useful to find out about what people feel, need and desire

- interesting model that can be applied in a very good way as template for any kind of youth organisation, dealing with certain issues

- would like them to post some ressources they have used for case studies

- its obvious that they put lot of time in questioning and reflexions, thinking of good solutions, or that they have experience in youthcenterorganizing

- I would really like to come and visit your club

- I don't think that it is a good idea to organize a youth center based on the needs of the youth. the organizers should have their own ideas and goals and then try to approach the target group

- Have you tested the model in practise? What are the results?

- good approach

- deep and specific information

- great!!! i liked it!

- how would you specifically identify and find/recruit marginalized groups (i.e. not in school)?

- i really like the idea of using the training workshops to develop a sense of issues upon which the group could reflect. more examples of this process would be great

- i think this model is too hypothetical, doubtly implemented in practice

- how long does it take to implrement this and of project you proposed? when it is possible to say that youth is already organized if any?

- how would you organize and realize survey about needs of youth?

- how would you recruit youth to come/work in youth center? what strategies would you use?

- how maintaining of the youth center will be organized?