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2025

Youth for the Community: Inclusion through Ideas and Dialogue

A survey and interviews with young people, activists and the Local Youth Council on how youth in Gostivar take part in local decisions.

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In numbers

  • Surveyed young people who would join free advocacy training

    70.6%

  • Surveyed young people not informed at all about ways to take part

    25.5%

  • Age range of the young people surveyed

    15–29

About the project

The project asked how young people in Gostivar take part in local decisions. Most of those surveyed knew little about how to get involved: 54.9% were only a little informed and 25.5% were not informed at all.

Youth for the Community
Youth for the Community, the work in progress

What happened

  1. A survey of young people aged 15–29 in Gostivar

  2. In-depth interviews with youth activists and the Local Youth Council

  3. A published analysis of how young people take part in local decisions

“Young people have the will and ideas, but often do not know where and how to get involved.”

Aneta Filipovska

Project Manager, IGI Gostivar

NGO Infocentar, October 2025(opens in a new tab)

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young people at a Common Ground Lab session in Gostivar

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Young people aged 15–29 can apply for trainings and exchanges. Schools, NGOs and municipalities can propose a project with us.

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