Naime of the organization: Urban In
Place: Novi Pazar, Serbia
Programme Director : Aida Ćorović, tel: +381 (0)63 655 633
Programme Coordinator : Sead Biberović, tel: +381 (0)63 80 11 612
Office address: 36300 Novi Pazar, 1. maja street bb (T. C. Vakuf), P. F. 145
Tel/Fax: +381 (0)20 331 570
E-mail: urbanin@gmail.com, urban_in@hotmail.com, urbanin@ptt.yu
URBAN-IN is a non-governmental, non-party, non-profit organization that was founded in June 1997. It treats civic, cultural and democratic education of citizens from Novi Pazar and Sandžak through its educational, cultural and psychosocial programmes inducing their creativity for the building of an open, democratic, civic society and to take their full part in it.
Youth and children programmes:
Open club, supported by the Fund for an Open Society, Belgrade, represents a part of the network of the ten Open clubs throughout Serbia (Subotica, Sombor, Novi Sad, Vršac, Beograd, Valjevo, Kragujevac, Aleksinac, Niš and Novi Pazar).
Through Debate Clubs we establish cooperation with local high schools Gimnasium and the School of Economics.
In the frame of the common project of the Open Clubs, we established a Youth Parliament, which taught young people about practices in leadership, law and parliamentary procedure.
The project Living together, supported by Pestalozzi Children's Village Foundation and with agreement of Ministry of Education and Sports and the Ministry of Social Affairs of Republic of Serbia, represents a joint effort of seven local NGOs from Serbia coordinated and supported by the Child Rights Centre, Belgrade to challenge interethnic and intercultural differences among adolescents in a way that promotes equality, tolerance and partnership.
In Belgrade, Subotica, Vrbas, Užice, Kraljevo, Zaječar, Niš and Novi Pazar, a range of activities will be organized that should empower young people for active participation in building a modern democratic society and create opportunities for them to overcome barriers towards living together peacefully.
The project Youth leaders' partnership for solving problems in the local community, supported by US Embassy, Belgrade, in cooperation with Center for modern skills, Belgrade, gathers young leaders from parties and NGOs from Novi Pazar.
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Educational programmes:
Regional office of the Educational Forum – Through this programme, Urban-In promotes the importance of education in society.
Learn to Teach - Education of Teachers of English - This programme is aimed at improving the methods of teaching English in schools in Novi Pazar.
Social programmes:
This is My World, Too - The objective of this programme is to promote the valuable socialization of disabled children.
I Can Do It, Too - Through this programme, Urban-In works with children suffering dystrophy, cerebral paralyses and child paralyses at Novopazarska banja, a special hospital for individuals with dystrophy and muscular illnesses from throughout the former Yugoslavia.
Women programmes:
Women Can do It - This project focuses on encouraging women's involvement in politics and public life.
The project Women forum is implemented in cooperation with five towns in Serbia and Montenegro (Subotica, Belgrade, Nis, Kraljevo and Ulcinj) and provides a network for addressing and discussing contemporary issues and challenges for women in this region.
New View on the World - Woman of the Third Millennium - This project provides psychosocial and health educational workshops for women from Novi Pazar.
Women Dialogue - The aim of this project is to elevate the level of women's involvement in interethnic dialogue and overcoming the lack of ethnical understanding and tolerance.
International Conference of Women of Balkans Women in Conflict: a democratic perspective for the Balkans - Through this project, Urban-In, cooperating partner, Transeuropeennes (France) and other local NGOs organized a "caravan" of women from former Yugoslavia and Albania to travel throughout the region to give workshops and public performances as well as to visit important towns and places where women were greatly impacted by the tragedies of the wars of the last decade. The aim of this on-going project is to build support networks between women in the region in an effort to lay the foundation for women's recovery and reconciliation.
The programmes of interethnic cooperation and dialogue:
The members of the NGO network OazaH (Oasis), consisting of NGOs from Serbia and Montenegro, deal mostly with conflict resolution programmes, through which we established a partnership with Peace Studies, Zagreb, the Centre for non-violent activity, Sarajevo and the Danish Centre for Conflict Resolution, Copenhagen.
We can live together - This seminar/conference establishes better relationships between minor and major national and ethnic groups in Serbia and Montenegro, mitigates/lessens interethnic tensions and strengthens interethnic cooperation in the region.
Divanhana - This project strives to improve connections and communication between Serbia and Montenegro, aiming at better understanding and building new bridges of cooperation.
Sandžak - a Different View - This roundtable discussion forum between the representatives of NGOs, political parties and independent media from the towns of Sandžak addressed issues related to interethnic cooperation and preparation for the year 2000 elections.
Sandžak and Bosniaks between Serbia and Montenegro- An international roundtable engaged over 50 experts, cultural and public distinguished persons from Serbia, Montenegro, BiH and Bulgaria.
Participation at the Stability Pact's First working table about human rights, interethnic relationship and cooperation in the region.
Urban-In is also a member of the Citizen's Pacts Network, a regional network of NGOs that deals with issues related to multi-ethnic society, reconciliation and issues related to connectivity, building of regional networks and promoting the liberalization of travel and other legal/administrative restrictions.
Cultural programmes:
The regional seminar-workshop called Play Against Violence was organized as a part of the programme An Art for Social Change Programme.
The project, Art as a Medium - Documenting Lifestyles, was implemented in cooperation with Belgrade Culture Centre, Cinema REX and Group 484 from Belgrade. Through this project, Urban-In engaged Israelian and Palestinian teenagers in discussions related to the promotion of peaceful co-existence, exchange of ideas and respect for diversity.
Network project Serbia 2000- This exhibition, implemented in cooperation with Cinema REX, Belgrade, involved publishing and publicizing youth perspectives of contemporary Serbian society in the context of modernization and the political, social and economic changes and struggles of the last decade.
Urban-In has also organized a variety of concerts, literary manifestations, book promotions and theatre plays annually since our founding in 1998.
Campaigns:
June 1998 - Anti-war campaign against the war in Kosovo.
Annual campaigns include The World AIDS Day, Universal Declaration of UN for Human Rights, International Conscientious Objection Day, The World's Day of Fight Against Racism and The Day of Victory over Fascism.
September and October 2000 Pre-Electoral Campaigns included youth campaigns Be awake for the future and Illuminated case; women's campaigns, Go Fata, go Kata... To the elections and vote for change and the Discreet Charm of Democracy. The campaigns were organized in Novi Pazar, Sjenica, Tutin, Nova Varoš, Raška, Prijepolje and Priboj.
In cooperation with the Municipality of Novi Pazar and town's Public utility firm campaign For a More Beautiful and Cleaner Town.
Other activities:
Regional Centre for development of the Non-profit Sector in Sandžak was founded in cooperation with the Centre for Development of the Non-profit Sector, Belgrade and imlements the following program:
- Informative-documentative Programme
- Training and Education Program
- Programme for representation and help in NGO Work - Establishment of Regional Forums of NGOs
- Volunteer Centre Programme- Project to promote volunteerism
- Public Relation Programme
- NGO Law Representation Programme
Urban-In is also the founder of the Network of NGOs in Sandžak.
Donors:
Fund for an Open Society, Belgrade, Freedom House, Belgrade, European Commission, King Baudouin Foundation, Belgium, Norwegian People's Aid, Belgrade, German Marshall Fund, USA, USAID, Belgrade, FRESTA, Denmark, Royal Dutch Embassy, Belgrade, Swiss Embassy, Belgrade, Pestalozzi Children's Foundation, Switzerland, British Embassy, Belgrade, US Embassy, Belgrade, Institute for Sustainable Communities, US...
