A member of the Youth Council Daniel Gjokjeski who had the opportunity to follow the training organized by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations on one of the most current topics and opportunities for social development and impact, shared the gained knowledge and experience from the euro-med region. The presentation was divided in three parts, in which he addressed the …

To celebrate International Women’s Day in 2013, the U.S. Embassy held a networking event to support women’s entrepreneurship. USAID works to ensure that Macedonia’s women have the opportunities and resources necessary to play strong leadership roles, and we support programs that increase and improve opportunities for entrepreneurship as a tool for economic growth. Ivana Jodanovska, a member of the Youth …

Recently, our members Krenar Quoku and Marija Matovska had the honor of meeting the ambassador Connie Morella at the American Corner in Skopje, Macedonia. She is the first US Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) who has served in the US Congress and discussed about different issues such as her carrier, the importance of knowing foreign languages, …

U.S. GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIPS The 2014-2015 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowships Program The competition is open from March 15 to June 30, 2013. The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program brings accomplished young and mid-level professionals to the United States for a year of combined academic (NON-DEGREE) and professional work. Fellows are selected based on potential for leadership and commitment to public service. …

Interesting short article about youth and technology. Do you agree with the author? “Match the ideas, energies and creativity of local youth with the enabling power of global technology. Create youth-led learning environments in their communities. This will be the new model.” Read more HERE

The World Economic Forum have made a wonderful visualization of global youth unemployment of year 2013. Check out the interesting and short presentation and see how concerned we need to be and to start being proactive in our own community! LINK TO THE PRESENTATION HERE

Youth Council in working atmosphere! The members have meetings to first decide on the visual appearance, social media outreach and the essential documents to be guided by. So far we have made our logo, business cards, have created the code of conduct and started discussing about projects that we ourselves can implement that keep the youth empowerment theme. In the …

A study by Korunovska Srbijanko Jana, Korunovska Avramovska Neda & Maleska Tanja. ABSTRACT The current study’s aims are twofold: first, we investigate the relationship between the level of education and employment status among Macedonian youth when controlling for age, gender, ethnicity, social status, social network, place of residence, education attained by respondent’s parents and number of children. In this way we …

NGO Reaktor have made a research about the situation of the youth in Macedonia, more specifically – Youth and the labor market. This is a small part of the introduction: “Macedonia is the European leader in youth unemployment, with the youth unemployment rate currently at  58%. Young people make up a significant portion of the overall unemployed population, which continues …

How the Youth Council has formed and the initiative that came from the US embassy in Macedonia to form the Youth Council here. This video shows a small part of what the Youth Councils should strive for, we will try to implement our experience in empowering the youth in Macedonia.   Ms. Zeenat Rahman, the special advisor on Global Youth …