Educational center – Krusevac (ECK) is founded in the July 2000., and registered in May 2001., as non government, non political and non profit organization, with the Vision of developed civil society which respect and protect the rights of every citizen.
The Mission of ECK is promotion and development of civil society, trough life long non formal education and support to active engagement.
ECK is aimed at two areas of priorities:
Educational center is mainly intended for the youth. Our goal is to guarantee creative and quality time for youth to spend, by projects in the following themes: non-formal education and training, creative workshops, international youth projects, voluntary work, etc. Educational center offers free internet access, social games, books, and publications from governmental as well as non-governmental organizations. In addition, youth can also attend various programs of non-formal education, learn about youth exchange programs and international participation and thus express their own desires and also potentials. ECK has ten years of experience in the realization of youth projects and actions on local and international level. Within the local community ECK is recognizable thanks to numerous activities, realized in cooperation with local institutions, local media, other NGOs and business sector. Since the founding of the organization we deal with the promotion of volunteerism and we active engage the volunteers in the framework of the organization. Thanks to that ECK has around 200 volunteers, from which 50 are active all the time. All of our volunteers are aged from 15 to 30.
Since 2003, ECK is actively engaged in the development of School parliaments, as basic organization for implementing the high school pupils in the process of decision making, and their active participation in social life of the community.
We have signed a Memorandum of cooperation with the Office for European Integration in the process of bringing closer Serbia and Europe. We are one of the founders of coalition „All different- all equal“ campaign in Serbia, under the support of the European Council.
From 2006 we are accredited organization by the European Commission for European Voluntary Service (sending, hosting and coordinating organization).
Since 2008, ECK is a Contact point organization in Serbia, for the European Commission program „Youth in Action“ In the European Comission program, Youth in Action, we have participated as applicant and partner organization in several different youth projects.
Members of ECK all have a different educational profile, trained in the field of NGO sector - project cycle management, strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, financial reporting, volunteer management, public relations, cross-sector cooperation, Youth in Action program etc.
Contacts:
NVO Edukativni Centar Krusevac
Bircaninova 26, 37 000 Krusevac, Serbia
Tel./Fax: +381 37 3502 644
Contact person: Violeta Stevovic, president of the EC
E-mail: eta@ec.org.rs