Our project ‘’Balkan Regional Platform for Youth Participation and Dialogue’’ is this year’s winner of the annual prize for active participation of youth awarded by The Serbian Youth Umbrella Organisation (KOMS).

At the event organized to celebrate six years of successful work, Serbian Youth Umbrella Organization (KOMS) presented to the public for their work during past year and awarded prizes for the best projects that encourage active participation of young people.

This is the second year in a row that KOMS awards their member organizations for their projects.  After a public call for member organizations of KOMS during February 2017, on the 14^th of March winners for this year have been announced.  It is with great joy that we can inform you that our project ‘’Balkan Regional Platform for Youth Participation and Dialogue’’ has been awarded for the best contribution to the active participation of young people through international cooperation.

Team of LDA Knjazevac, member organization of KOMS that applied to the call, has had the honours to accept this award.  In their acceptance speech,  Ivana, LDA youth worker and youth correspondent, and Milica and Nikola, members of local Youth Advisory Group of Knjazevac, thanked the teams from Mostar, Prijedor, Zavidovici, Niksic, Peja, Subotica and Skopje for the great collaborative work that resulted, among other things, in this award. They stated that this award will genuinely motivate the whole network to work even better in the future.  After that, a special ‘’thank you video’’, created for this occasion by the members of the Regional Youth Working Group, has been screened and publication presenting our project from the perspective of youth workers that participated in regional job shadowing exchange has been distributed to present guests.

The Serbian Youth Umbrella Organisation (KOMS) is the highest representative body of the young people in Serbia whose mission is to represent the interests of young people by developing a partnership with the state, inter-agency and international cooperation, encouraging the active participation of young people and organizational development of its members.

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