Youth Act 2025

ongoing

Svjetski savez mladih Jugoistočna Europa (SSM JIE) is an ENGO of young people from 18 - 30 years old, dedicated to raising awareness about the human dignity and human rights and empowering the youth in Europe, with the specific focus on Southeast and Central Europe. For 2024, all our activities are designed and implemented by youth, and youth is the target group of our activities. SSM JIE has 35 members organizations and branches in different European countries, with the specific focus on Southeast and Central Europe, and each of them brings together a certain number of young people who will be responsible for implementing some of 30 activities that are planned for 2024. Apart from the implementation itself, young people will design projects on their own, arrange implementation and later evaluate and improve the project if necessary. All of them are also participating in the dissemination activities, especially on their national levels. By organizing more than 30 activities in 2025, we will reach more than 60500 participants and 115 decision makers, including producing 8 policy and position papers, increasing the skills and competences of our participants for 25% comparing them with their status before the participation in our activities. The 2025 activities also have an aim of mainstreaming the legacy of the European Year of Youth among youth from all parts of Europe by facilitating the topics of digital transition and training youth in digital skills, by encouraging all young people, but especially young people with fewer opportunities, to become active and engaged citizens as well as actors of change, inspired by a European sense of belonging, and finally, by promoting opportunities for young people arising from the public policies at EU, national, regional level and local level in order to support their personal, social and professional development in a greener, more digital and more inclusive Union.