Youth for Youth is a non-governmental, non-profit organization, founded in 2015, with the aim of providing non-formal education activities for youth and its objectives are to:
•improve competences and soft-skills of youth,
•organize cultural events,
•organize local outdoor activities (hikes, games, sports) and improve active & healthy lifestyle of youth,
•promote interculturality and non-formal education among youth and improve their cultural understanding,
•promote Eco-friendly lifestyle and recycling,
•organize international youth exchanges in Czechia or abroad,
•include young people in international projects to enrich their life perspective, opportunities and integrate them as much as possible,
•include in international activities young people from rural/small urban areas and youth with fewer opportunities.
Our regular local activities include youth-led activities, culture events, concerts, local outdoor activities, bi-weekly hikes, games, grassroot sports to improve and promote active&healthy lifestyle of youth in and around Beroun. We do informal high-school events in Beroun to promote our activities, other cultures and languages. We organize weekly informal workshops and events for developing competences, e.g. digital competences, teamwork, communication, financial literacy, photo/videography, languages, music&arts and other for young people in our target group.
Target group: young people 15-25 years old, engaging also youth facing fewer opportunities.
Our regular local activities with youth are in Beroun, occassionaly also Praha.
Our main target group for our regular activities are high-schoolers (15-19 y.o.), from Beroun and small towns and villages nearby.
We also work with age group 18-26 y.o.(mostly university students) for intercultural presentations and some workshops and aiming to bridge the age groups and offer mentoring from older to younger. We reach more young people from these age groups mostly through our Instagram.
We aim to do more activities in international contexts, support cultural learning and including people from other cultures.
International activities and cooperation
We have organized successful Erasmus+ youth exchanges and have also established partnerships with organizations from other European countries, for example Italy, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Spain, France and we regularly send Czech participants for projects in these countries. For these youth projects we include young people from our target groups, 15-25 y.o. and always aim to involve also young people facing fewer opportunities - for example social, economical, geographical or cultural barriers and engaging youth also from rural areas and small cities.