Current Education & Youth Projects

Project: A Found Friend

Implementation Period: 2001 – present

Location: Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Kosov@, and Albania

Target Group: Youth/Secondary School students in Southeast Europe

Description of the Project:
The aim of this project is to support the process of reconciliation by improving the understanding of human rights and the recognition of diversity as assets for society and by empowering young people and their teachers to take local action. Youth in the targeted countries take trainings and lectures in areas of peace and dialogue, youth as human rights protectors, role of youth in improving intercultural relations, and the role of intercultural learning in creating multiethnic societies. Furthermore, the youth involved in this project organize workshops and debates to share their experiences and knowledge with other youth in the region.

Donor: FRESTA


Project: Babylon Center

Implementation Period: 2001 – present

Location: Gostivar, Macedonia

Target Group: Youth

Description of the Project:
This project develops programs and activities that satisfy the needs of children and the youth, completing their life skills, learning healthy life styles, and providing them space to learn new skills that will help young people during employing, founding families, communication and inclusion in social life. This project enhances the level of youth initiatives and activities of the Center, by involving volunteers and parents and promoting community involvement on improving the position of children and young people. This project also serves to enhance the capacity of the local non-governmental sector for work with young people.

Donor: Agency of Youth and Sports


Project: Telecenter

Implementation Period: 2005 – present

Location: Gostivar, Macedonia

Target Group: Youth

Description of the Project:
The purpose of the Telecenter is to promote and stimulate participation in the lifelong learning programs. They advocate for the rights of people with low purchasing power to have equal access to these programs, in order to develop competencies required for active participation in the knowledge economy. Current programs include information and communication technology (ICT), English language learning modules, and life skills development.

The following courses are offered at the Telecenter:

  • MODULE 1 - Basic Knowledge
  • MODULE 2 - Windows XP
  • MODULE 3 - Office Word 2003
  • MODULE 4 - Office Excel 2003
  • MODULE 5 - Office PowerPoint 2003
  • MODULE 6 - Office Access 2003
  • MODULE 7 - Internet Explorer and Outlook Express

Donor: FRESTA

For more information on ADI's Telecenter and its offered courses, please contact us at:

map to the telecenter ADI Telecenter
VII Zone bb
1230 Gostivar, Macedonia
Tel: +389 42 241 341
Fax: +389 42 241 341
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