First aspect is to promote youth as a "driving wheel" of the progress, the biggest treasure of the community and the biggest challenge for the society.
Second aspect is to empower youth, so youth can take and make meaningful difference in their lives, community, and internationally for the benefit of the mankind. They can think locally, but they are acting globally. They should be and are ambassadors and in the same time construction workers that are building bridges across digital divide.
Predominantly, activities are student based and student centred, structured on-line collaborative projects/activities. Projects are proposed by students and teachers jointly and are put together in one booklet Project Description Booklet. Students are working on their contributions and submit them to the forums, or directly to the co-ordinating person. Projects can be national, regional, and international. Also project can be divided into action taking, community service, environmental, scientific, civic education, artistic, interdisciplinary, etc.
There are a lot of gatherings (again national, regional, and international once) when students and teachers are meeting each other in person. There are a lot of camps, youth summits, and conferences where Macedonian students and teachers were presenting their achievements. They might know each other for a long time but on-line, not in person. That is the biggest reward for hard working youth.
We are engaging a lot of energy in establishing good collaboration with the governmental institutions. At this point we are starting to cooperate with the Presidential Cabinet; we are negotiating our cooperation with the Ministry of Environment; we had established some cooperation and have approval from the Bureau for Education Development of Macedonia.
We have strong links with the rest of the global iEARN network. We are exchanging ideas, comments, suggestion, contributions on a daily basis, we are sharing the same attitudes towards our life and future, we are sharing the same technology, the same iEARN publications and the same forums/newsgroups.
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