During 2015, within the project: "Balkan regional platform for youth participation and dialogue" LDA Knjazevac has conducted a survey with young people of Knjazevac, where 87% of respondents answered that something that would improve the lives of youngsters in Knjazevac would be a Youth Centre as a place where all young people could gather, educate themselves and be creative.
Thus came the idea of LDA young volunteers to develop a project "See you in the Center" as the three-month long advocacy action led by young people of Knjazevac to open a Youth Center.
One of the activities within the project is to collect signatures of citizens interested to support this proposal of young people. Seizing the opportunity of a theatre festival taking place in Knjazevac, with support from the Festival of Youth Culture FKMS, Info point Knjazevac volunteers and staff engaged in the project officially started the implementation of this activity on September, 1st. As expected - a significant number of people supported this proposal which will be officially presented to the local authorities at the very end of the project.
Other project activities that will be implemented in the upcoming two months include street photo exhibition, open air cine forum and a public debate with the topic ’’What kind of a Youth Center do we need?’’.
The project "See you in the Center" is being implemented by LDA Knjazevac in partnership with Centre for Culture and Arts K019, with the support of the Resource Centre Scout group "Djordje Simeonović" Zaječar, within the programme "YOUTH ARE THE LAW - 2016 for Bor i Zajecar district " funded by the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Republic of Serbia.