Croatia

Name: C:E:T platforma Croatia
Webpage: https://cetplatform.org/
Facebook page: https://web.facebook.com/cetplatformhrvatska/
Email: croatia@cetplatform.org
Contact person: Tomislav Bogdan, president of C:E:T platform Croatia

About us:
CET platforma Croatia is branch of regional CET network with organizations in Croatia, Serbia, Poland, Macedonia, Slovenia and Montenegro. CET was established as a group of experts from South East Europe with the aim to provide support, assistance, services and expertise in the field of the development of civil society and democratic institutions, civic values, and non-formal education for all citizens, especially young people. CET also deals with advocacy in public policy issues. CET organizes events (round tables, debates, seminars and workshops) on the issues of activism, education, promotion and exchange in the field of human rights, and development of local, regional, European and international relations and cooperation. CET especially promotes the development of creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development (of civil society). CET also took role in our local society when it comes to activation of young people in different areas, active citizenship, organizing local events, cooperation with other NGOs in national level but also organizing the international activities in our city in order to make impact also on local society.

CET platform Croatia cooperated with many organisation from West Balkans and European Union on projects within Youth in Action and other programmes of CoE, EU and other international foundations with topics: social inclusion, youth activism, European awareness, etc.  Annual plan of CET Balkan network foreseen activities aiming to include big number of young people in activities of civil organisations and support them in social and professional development. Related to the project, as our country is new member state of EU, there is huge need for information about labour mobility rights of our citizens within EU, including often issues due to lack in knowledge about rights.

CET platform Croatia organized 5 Erasmus+ projects in 2015. successfully.

Youth Exchange „Young Europe“ which was organized in May 2015. was project about active citizenship with which we want to support young people to think about European union, European values and all diversities which exist in Europe. Also through this project our participants learn from each other about different cultures, experiences and through numerous non-formal methods they got knowledge about European union and how EU functioning.

Youth Exchange „Speak UP against discrimination“ which was organized in August 2015. was the project in which participants through numerous non fromal methods express their opinions about human rights and different kinds of discrimination which they know from every day life. Through discussions, debates, presentations, group work and meetings with decision makers young people which participated on this project raise their awareness about human rights and gained better picture about discrimination. Also they find solutions which will be used in order to try to stop discrimination in their communities but definitely educate other young people and have impact on all citizens to stop discrimination and start to make Europe with same opportunities for all citizens.

Youth Exchange „Young Europe“ which was organized in August 2015. on which participants through discussions, presentations, debates, round tables and numerous non formal methods gain knowledge about EU institutions, making decission process in EU etc. Through simulation of EU parliament participants improve their skills in public speak and also gain leadership skills which will be usefull on professional but also on private level of them and their organizations.

Training course „Stay Tuned Online“ which was organized in September 2015. was project about promotion of youthwork and youth organization using online tools. As we all know, today the best way of promotion for anything is promote that online so with this project we educated young leaders and youthworker how to promote their activities, organizations, how to run campaigne online and how to bi visible online.

Training course „Creative entrepreneurship“ which was organized in October 2015. was a project like the name says about entrepreneurship and funding opportunities for young entrepreneurs. On this training courses we educated young leaders and youthworkers how to create an idea, how to make bussines plan, how to research the market and which funding opportunities theycan use for realization of their ideas.

Also in 2016. CET platform Croatia organized 2 youth exchanges:

Youth exchange „Human rights – base of Europe“ which we organized in April 2016. with aim to raise awareness of young people about importance of protection of human rights and gain knowledge and skills which young people need in order to „fight“ for human rights“.

Youth exchange „Youth European education which we organized in May 2016. and on which participants through discussions, debates, meetings with decision makers, discussion with guest speakers from European institutions and simulation of European parliament get knowledge about European institutions and how they functioning. Also participants get skills for public speaking and participate in disucsssions with arguments.

In 2017. we organized 1 youth exchange:

„MOST European“ which we organized in Uzhgorod, Ukraine and on which participants from Croatia, Ukraine, Turkey, Poland, Georgia, Serbia and Italy had opportunity to learn from each other about European values, European identity and human rights. Also participants were working in mixed intercultural groups and present their skills during the simulation day. Within this project we also had meeting with decision makers and General Consul of Republic of Slovakia in Uzhgorod, Ukraine with topic of Perspective of Europe in future.

In 2018. we organized 1 training course and 2 youth exchanges:

Training course Human rights education for European values equalization gathered youthworkers from 10 different countries in order to educate them about methods and ways of education which they can use in their daily youthwork with young people on topics of human rights and migrations.

Youth exchange 3 Equality gathered 42 young people from 7 different countries in order to support them in discussion and promotion of human rights today in modern society and to raise their awareness about importance of protection of human rights and importance of promotion of equality in today society in all areas, especially in human rights.

Youth exchange Active citizens for 21st century job market gathered young people from 6 countries in order to give them opportunity to learn from each others about how to create Europass CV and language passport, how to create motivation letter, how to do SWOT, PEST, bussines and marketing analysis and how to create bussiness plan. This project had concrete impact and prepared participants fro their active involvement in job market.

On the local level we working on promotion of human rights, equal opportunities and equality in general. Also, in 2017. we started to organize workshops for kids from elementary school about robotics and using computers in sense of development of skills of kids. Also, we have local workshops related with protection of human rights and raising awarenness in our community which is small and not so open minded. From last year we cooperate with City comitee for gender equality on campaign of raising awareness of gender equality and same opportunities and rights of both genders, especially when it comes to employment in public institutions and involvement in decision making bodies. From 2017. we are member of Local action group Strossmayer in which we lead the process of creation of programme for youth in next budget period. Also, we are members of City council for youth programme which is responsible for creation of programme for youth and young people for the period of 2020. – 2027. in our city. From 2018. we started to cooperate with Croatian employment office on numerous number of education workshops in order to prepare nonemployed people for the job market and for their active role in job seeking process. In our local activities, we cooperate with local media, local and county Employment office, decision makers on local level, media representatives and also other NGOs which as a one of the goal have activation of young people in our local society. Also CET platforma is a sending organization and have a numerous project as a partners, in 2015. we sent more than 50 our members and young people on the project abroad and thanks to that grow as a organization but also gain some new and educated members which are now involved in our projects and activities. In 2016. we sent more than 100 young people and youthworkers from Croatia on international activities, training courses, seminars and youth exchanges in order to give young people opportunity to participate in something new for them and to be actively involved in creation of Europe which will be the place with same rights and opportunities for all citizens, which will be the Europe united in diversity. Number of young people who we are sending on international activities raising proportional with the number of our activities and partnerships so in 2017. we sent 140 young people on international activities and in 2018. we had numerous number of partnerships as we improved our capacities when it come to human resources so we sent more than 150 young people on international activities.