On 22.12.2016. The Embassy of Local Democracy Zavidovići organized the activity "Young taking the day" in the frame of Balkan regional platform for youth participation and dialogue.
The activitiy “Youth taking over day” was structured as an activity in which young people, representative of the Councils of Secondary schools students from Zavidovici have the opportunity to talk and ask questions to new elected Mayor of municipality of Zavidovici Hašim Mujanović and his Assistant from sector of social affairs Idriz Alihodžić.
During the conversation with young people, the municipality mayor Hasim Mujanovic expressed his words of support for young people in achieving their rights and stated that the Mayor's Office is ready to cooperate with young people and is ready to listen suggestions and proposals from young people for building a better environment for young people in Zavidovici. Also, he expressed the wish that when Municipality start the creation of the Youth Strategy of Municipality Zavidovici, which will be done in 2017, that a working group need to be made of young people, including representatives of high school students.
Idriz Alihodžić, Mayor’s Assistent for Social Affairs, responded to questions of participants in the activities concerning the establishing of the "Youth Council" of Zavidovici, as well as the youth strategy, which expired in 2015, youth sports, support from the Municipality in the formation of associations of young people, opportunities for scholarships for high school students, the infrastructure problems that the high school students encounter in their schools, together with the conditions for the realization of youth entrepreneurship, the cooperation of the Municipality with donors whose focus are young people.
During the meeting, the Local Youth Advisory Group presented its proposals, which are result of the workshop "Youth City - My City" concerning the planning and improvement of public sports fields in Zavidovici, and their vision of how those sport fields should look. Also, the high school students presented the activities and projects that are carried out, then the Association of Local high school team Zavidovici presented their activities and an informal group of young people presented its project "Optimus".