In the spotlight: Student Youth Council from Georgia

The Student Youth Council from Georgia has been established in 2001 by four student organizations, promoting establishment of high education standards in Ozurgeti (Guria region, West Georgia). The*Student-Youth Council* is a public union, which aims at solving the problems that youth and students are facing by protecting their rights, promoting knowledge and skills, filling informational gap, realizing youth’s intellectual, creative, cultural and sport potentials. Nowadays the organization works in the following programmes:

  • Youth integration and assistance for their active involvement in public life;
  • Assistance to promote and develop volunteering;
  • Assistance to establish and develop democratic govern/self-govern.

*Student-Youth Council* is also involved in the “Youth in Action” programme. They already took part in 25 different kind of activities such as 5 “Youth Exchanges”, where the organisation was co-organizer sending organization and the co-organizer host organization of two projects as well as. Since 2008 *Student-Youth Council* is also involved in EVS projects. So far 20 EVS volunteers worked in their organization and they also send15 Georgian volunteers to Poland, Greece, Czech Republic, Italy, Hungary and Romania.

Are you curious to their realized work? Watch all their videos on the Student Youth Council YouTube channel.

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