New participation fee 2024 As a new year started, GAIA is introducing a participation fee for persons who want to join activities abroad or in Kosovo. Those activities include educational activities, such as participating in training courses, seminars, workshops, study visits, and similar forms of non-formal education, as well as volunteering activities. This participation fee…
We got a new multilingual web-site which contains basic information about Eureopan Solidarity Corps and Erasmus+ Youth. The web-site is primarily made for organisations and institutions interested to join these programmes, but it contains useful information also for youth workers and youth from the Western Balkans. https://contactpoints.eu
We want to know more about the needs of organisation and young people regarding EU programmes for youth: European Solidarity Corps and Erasmus+. SURVEY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERING With this survey we would like to find out what are the needs, obstacles and knowledge of young people in Kosovo about opportunities for international…
GAIA continues being the Contact Point for the Programmes Erasmus+: Youth and European Solidarity Corps for Kosovo! This means that GAIA is here to support organisations and institutions interested to join ESC programme or international youth exchanges, trainings and similar activities in the field of youth within the frame of Erasmus+ program. If your organisation…
The project “Traditional knowledge for sustainable future” aimed to bring cultural heritage closer to youngsters, provide space to discover the techniques of traditional building, and accent the importance of such opportunities for youngsters, while discovering the cultural heritage of Eastern Kosovo through traditional building. It started in September 2021, when GAIA initiated a mapping to…
We are all Made out of Mud Training course 10 – 20 of May 2023 This training course will gather 28 youth workers interested in organising volunteering projects in natural buildings for 10 days in small village Bozevce in Kosovo. Participants of this training course should come from Slovenia, France, Serbia, Turkey, Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro…
The Western Balkan Youth Participation ideas lab, which took place in Podgorica from the 2nd to the 5th of December, was an incomparably rich and insightful event, which, thanks to GAIA Kosovo, I had the opportunity and pleasure of attending. The event gathered youths and youth workers from across the Western Balkans (WB) together to…
Call for an educator in Gracanica (20h/week) From October 2021 until March 2022 Description of the organization: GAIA is an organization working for social and environmental justice in Kosovo. We want to work towards peace through engaging in reconciliation by creating spaces and opportunities where people from various backgrounds can meet, talk, listen to and…
Since spring 2017, GAIA Kosovo started to be present in Bozevce village. After the initial renovation and preparation of the place, the first volunteers arrived in 2018. The idea of the program is the creation of a permaculture educational space, which will be the permaculture learning and practicing point for Kosovo and the Balkan region.…
This is our first publication on natural building in Albanian and Serbian languges. It can be downloaded for free here: DORACAK I NDËRTIMIT NATYRAL GRADNJA S PRIRODOM NA UMU Information posters on natural building produced by the volunteers of GAIA. Bellow you can find posters about natural building, natural insulation, Rocket Mass Heater, Straw bale…