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Progressive Youth Forum was held at university

Progressive Youth Forum was held at university

On May 27, II Youth Forum "Youth will change Ukraine" took place in UzhNU. It was attended by progressive and promising young people and community activists of Transcarpathia.

The goal of the project was to create conditions for the exchange of experience, establish cooperation between youth organizations of different regions of Transcarpathia and create an effective network of community activists.

The organizers and partners of the event were the NGO "Youth Space", NGO "United students" (Yedyne studensnvo), Bohdan Havrylyshyn  International Charitable Foundation, Student Council of the Transcarpathian region, Uzhhorod branch of the NGO "Foundation of Regional Initiatives".

The speakers, including the head of the Scientific Student and Postgraduate Student Association of UzhNU, head of the NGO "Prostir" (Space) Mykola Susko, Head of Youth and Sports Department of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration Denys Man, Vice Rector for Research and Academic Policy Ihor Korol, deputy manager of the regional council staff Hanna Hlukhova, First Deputy Chief of the Main Territorial Administration of Justice of the Transcarpathian region Ivan Almashi, director of the UzhNU Institute of Public Administration and Regional Development Volodymyr Prykhodko and director of the Career Center of UzhNU Tetiana Buturlakina, laid stress on the important role of young people in community life.

Upon completion of the official part, those present took part in the lecture-discussion "Youth and authority: dream, influence and win" delivered by Andriy Sheketa.

After the lecture, participants continued working in 5 focus groups discussing the following topics: decentralization of power and effective bodies of local self-government; youth entrepreneurship is the key to success and opportunity of self-realization for young people; introduction of the regional youth center (problems, prospects and authorities); student self-government as an effective mechanism for the formation of leaders; development of tourism in Transcarpathia: participation of youth.

As a result of the work in groups, the memorandum of cooperation between youth NGOs of the region was signed.

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