2A Rayko Daskalov St.
Ruse 7000
Bulgaria
- Youth and education
MYC is a union of youth activities and initiatives, implemented by artistic teams, clubs of different interests, social-informational activities and other amateur forms within the centre. Its basic purpose is to create and distribute cultural values, to organize educational courses in the field of arts, public and humanitarian sciences. The Centre creates conditions for information service and consultancy on ethnography, civil education, psychological problems of the young people, problems of their reproductive health etc. It encourages cooperation between the young people in Europe and the world, through research and distribution of information, as well as through exchange of experience in conferences, seminars, publications, exchange programs, festivals, researches and documents. It cooperates for the preservation and development of the Bulgarian and local traditions and customs. It gives opportunity for the development of amateur creative work and club forms of occupation.
Projects:
Our international projects are basically realized under the program “Youth in Action” of the European Commission. The implemented up to now projects are the following:
1) “Let’s sing and dance together” -20-27.06.2008 – intercultural project for getting to know each other’s traditions, culture, customs, songs and dances of the partner organizations. The partners were from Tunisia, Serbia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.
2) “World without prejudice” – 20-29.06.2009 – training on European Voluntary Service. The aim of the training course was young people and youth workers to learn more about volunteering, to learn how accreditation is done, how to apply for an EVS project and to exchange contacts and best practices. Participating countries: Tunisia, Serbia, Hungary, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria.
3) “Today is yesterday’s tomorrow” – 19-27.06.2010 – training for increasing the capacity of youth NGO’s when working in a multicultural environment, project management. Participating countries: Morocco, Tunisia, Poland, Hungary, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria. (We have attached pictures from this project).
Activities:
Nowadays at Municipal Youth Centre we have the following clubs: folk dance club “Zora”, modern ballet “Impuls”, vocal studio “Ikonomov”, photography club, club for applied arts “Palette”, break dances, choir, theatre etc. There is a Eurodesk point functioning at MYC – an informational centre which is a part of a European network for exchange of information on volunteer programs, youth exchanges, seminars, festivals which are taking place all over Europe. Since 2009 MYC is accredited to send volunteers in European countries under the program European Voluntary Service.
Every year we hold the international modern ballet dance festival – “Dancing River” – in 2011 the 5th edition is going to take place. Also an international contest for pop-rock singers Northern Lights” („Северно сияние”) – the 15th edition is going to take place this year.