National youth program
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Croatia 2009 National Youth Program
Measure 7. MAKING USE OF THE EXISTING AND CREATION OF NEW INFRASTRUCTURE TO BE
USED FOR THE WIDE MOVEMENT “SPORT FOR ALL” IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITY: DURATION OF IMPLEMENTATION: 7.1. To conduct an analysis of the situation and needs in counties regarding school recreation facilities. 2010 7.2. To draft a plan of renewal and construction of sport-recreation facilities in accordance with the analysis. 2011 CARRIER: Ministry of Science, Education and Sport COLLABORATORS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION: Ministry of Sea, Transportation and Infrastructure local and regional self-administration Croatian Sport Recreation Association “Sport for All” FUNDING: Ministry of Science, Education and Sport REQUIRED FUNDING: resources from regular activities of state administration bodies IMPLEMENTATION INDICATORS: − conducted analysis of the situation and needs − drafted plan of rebuilding and construction of sport-recreation facilities 211 Measure 8. PROMOTION OF IMPORTANCE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITY: DURATION OF IMPLEMENTATION: 8.1. To encourage professional and scientific projects dealing with physical activities of young people. ongoing 8.2. To finance through public tenders projects in sport with the emphasis on financing sport associations that in their projects and activities stimulate mass recreational sport for young people. 2009 and ongoing CARRIER: Ministry of Science, Education and Sport COLLABORATORS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION: Croatian Olympics Bord Office for NGOs of the Government of the Republic of Croatia Agency for Upbringing and Education civil society organizations from the field of sport focused on working with youth FUNDING: Ministry of Science, Education and Sport REQUIRED FUNDING: resources from regular activities of state administration bodies IMPLEMENTATION INDICATORS: − the research conducted − the number of programs and the amount invested in financed programs − program of systematic informing drafted − media campaign conducted 213 7. MOBILITY, INFORMING AND COUNSELLING 7.1. Youth mobility Youth are the most mobile part of society. Under the notion of youth mobility, we understand educational, cultural and tourist mobility of youth and their inclusion into international co-operation and exchange. Mobility enables the exchange of ideas and enrichment of experiences, and by ensuring openness in communication with other societies and cultures, it develops in young people a sense of understanding and respect for mutual differences. Globalization processes and strengthening of competitiveness on the labour market influence the increase in the interest of young people for better understanding of the world and different cultures and acquisition of new experiences, knowledge and skills. In today’s contemporary world, all three areas of youth mobility, i.e. tourist, educational and cultural mobility, develop extremely fast continuously expanding specialised programs which enable the youth to obtain quality learning about the world but also about themselves. Also, direct experience of other cultures, customs and people mainly affects the development of positive values and the sense of understanding, tolerance and respect for differences, and at the same time ensures to youth preconditions for flow of ideas and development of comparative standards. The problems youth face in today’s complex society may no longer be satisfactorily solved only on local or even national levels. Faced with a certain problem or showing a special interest for a certain topic, more and more young people search for experiences of their peers from other countries and cultures. Therefore, non-formal education makes the basic component in the development of youth mobility, i.e. youth tourism being its most comprehensive segment within which, in addition to offers for individual and tourist trips, larger and larger place is taken by educational (learning foreign languages abroad, participation in specialized courses, trainings and seminar activities, etc.) and work trips (work & study programs, internship programs, volunteer programs, etc.). Unlike the field of institutional and formal education, the developed youth tourism infrastructure gives youth the opportunity to organize their own learning, personal development and acquisition of practical experience through direct and interactive participation in various activities, disregarding the fact whether a tourist trip is in question, or the main motive for the trip are education, work or participation in cultural programs and events. Therefore, the support of society for values of youth and student travels is more and more expressed, and ‘‘educational institutions, potential employers and parents themselves recognize them as a very important experience for personal development and understanding of the world we live in’’ (Tadej, 2006). In Croatia, only in the last two years, we notice the improvement and progress in the interest and care of society for the development of youth mobility and youth tourism infrastructure development. The key reason for the slow development of youth mobility and youth tourism is the combination of poor informing of youth and insufficiently developed youth tourism infrastructure. 214 Although we register an increase in the number of hostels, which are the basis of the youth tourism infrastructure, they are mainly the facilities with small capacities providing only accommodation service in main urban centers of Croatia. The development of such accommodation capacities reponding more adequately to financial abilities of youth is praiseworthy, particularly because of the fact that opening of those hostels represents a new entrepreneurial initiative of young people, but if Croatia wants to have a developed youth tourism structure and thereby significantly increase youth mobility level in the near future, multifunctional youth hostels of bigger capacities, which respond by their offer to needs of young individuals but also of various groups, will be necessary. Thereby, Croatia becomes more accessible to young people from the country and abroad by offering, particularly to groups, more favourable conditions for the realization of various programs aimed at young people (seminar activities, trainings and other thematic gatherings). Of the total number of categorized hostels in Croatia (35) there are only six (6) such multifunctional youth hostels which at the same time satisfy the standards set by the Hostelling International system. In addition to Rijeka, where the direct and quality co-operation of local authorities with the national hostel association was realized on the project of opening the first youth hostel in the city, which is still the accommodation facility of the highest quality in the entire country, three other biggest university and urban centers (Zagreb, Osijek and Split) do not have multifunctional youth hostels that would work during the entire year (a kind of exception is Zagreb, where it is necessary to complete the project of adaptation of a youth hostel into the highly standardized accommodation and education center for youth). Also, for example, in the area of Plitvice Lakes, which represents unique natural heritage, there is no adequate accommodation and education youth center, and in the inland Croatia, there are not even simple forms of hostel accommodation. Thereby, individual mobility of youth in Croatia, opening of Croatia to youth from other countries are reduced, and at the same time, conditions for realization of school travels (trips, excursions and out-of-class field programs) and familiarizing school children with different Croatian regions are more difficult. Travel and discount international cards for youth and students, the most important of which are EURO<26 and ISIC card, which stimulate youth mobility, are still held by less than 5 thousand young persons. An increase in the number of young holders of these cards would influence the increase in quality discounts for youth, particularly in travel transportation, and at the same time, it would improve informing youth and students about favourable travel conditions and opportunities for their participation in various educative and tourist programs. Unlike most European countries, Croatia has still not unified the national student card (IKS), which does not have a significant value in use or international verification, with international student identity card ISIC, although this is a simple and favourable unifying process. On the global level, in addition to a significant increase in the number of young people and students who travel and participate in various activities of non-formal education, the academic mobility of students is increasing dramatically. In comparison with other countries, Croatia has inadmissibly low percentage of student mobility (according to OECD assessment, only around 0.02% of Croatian students study abroad or are involved in academic exchange programs – Manual ‘‘Enlargement of the Croatian Academic Cummunity Mobility: Entrance of Croatia into Erasmus Program’’, 2008). 215 One of the key problems is the lack of institutional information sources in universities, but for an adequate solution of low academic mobility of Croatian students’ problems, it is necessary to create a separate overall strategy for increasing academic mobility for the purpose of greater inclusion of Croatia into the mobility programs of the EU and for the active promotion of wider meaning and importance of mobility and international exchange in formal education which is not a subject of the National Youth Action Program, which primarily focuses on conditions for the development of non-formal education. 26> Download 0.9 Mb. 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