6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
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Table 58: <strong>Youth</strong> work activities <strong>in</strong> Romanian municipalities<br />
Type of activity %<br />
Recreati<strong>on</strong>/leisure-time<br />
activities<br />
34 17<br />
<strong>Youth</strong> centres 7 3<br />
Cultural youth work 30 15<br />
Extracurricular youth educati<strong>on</strong> 61 30<br />
<strong>Youth</strong> <strong>in</strong>formati<strong>on</strong> 53 26<br />
Sports 13 6<br />
Social services 2 1<br />
Other 3 1<br />
Total 203 100%<br />
One of the activities provided, youth <strong>in</strong>formati<strong>on</strong>, is most often put <strong>in</strong>to practice <strong>in</strong> the form of<br />
central <strong>in</strong>formati<strong>on</strong> campaigns <strong>on</strong> the dangers of drug use or <strong>on</strong> sex educati<strong>on</strong>, political<br />
activities, vot<strong>in</strong>g and electi<strong>on</strong> issues, political representati<strong>on</strong>, violence <strong>in</strong> society, school<br />
issues, domestic problems, gender-based violence etc. There are a significant number of<br />
recreati<strong>on</strong>al and leisure-time activities for young people, for <strong>in</strong>stance music c<strong>on</strong>certs, music<br />
c<strong>on</strong>tests, folk dance, dances, camps, w<strong>in</strong>ter and summer trips, trekk<strong>in</strong>g. Sem<strong>in</strong>ars, tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g<br />
for project management, youth policies and fund<strong>in</strong>g opportunities and job-seek<strong>in</strong>g represent<br />
another category well developed <strong>in</strong> Romanian youth work. These activities provide<br />
opportunities for young people to meet, to exchange skills, to have access to n<strong>on</strong>-formal<br />
tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g opportunities and to <strong>in</strong>formati<strong>on</strong>. Unfortunately, sports are not so present. One<br />
explanati<strong>on</strong> for this could be that sports <strong>in</strong> Romania are managed by a specific authority and<br />
that sports activities are counted, supervised and funded by <strong>in</strong>stituti<strong>on</strong>s that were not the<br />
subject of the present research.<br />
<strong>Youth</strong> work f<strong>in</strong>anced and planned by state <strong>in</strong>stituti<strong>on</strong>s – the County <strong>Youth</strong> Departments –<br />
represents the most significant part of youth activities with<strong>in</strong> the counties surveyed. This<br />
does not mean that n<strong>on</strong>-governmental organisati<strong>on</strong>s carry<strong>in</strong>g out these activities cannot<br />
apply for funds. With the <strong>Youth</strong> (Informati<strong>on</strong>) Centres, the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Authority for <strong>Youth</strong> is<br />
try<strong>in</strong>g to also reach the rural communities where youth is not well organised or where there<br />
are very few youth organisati<strong>on</strong>s or n<strong>on</strong>-governmental organisati<strong>on</strong>s. In this regard, the fact<br />
that two of the three exist<strong>in</strong>g youth centres <strong>in</strong> Cluj County are located <strong>in</strong> rural areas is a big<br />
step forwards.<br />
In the four counties we surveyed 135 n<strong>on</strong>-governmental associati<strong>on</strong>s. Most of them (42,<br />
31%) are youth associati<strong>on</strong>s, and students organisati<strong>on</strong>s are also numerous (34, 25%).<br />
Unfortunately no <strong>in</strong>formati<strong>on</strong> was available <strong>on</strong> the number of members <strong>in</strong> these<br />
organisati<strong>on</strong>s, and the <strong>on</strong>ly activities that could be traced were those f<strong>in</strong>anced with NAY<br />
funds. Most of these associati<strong>on</strong>s are located <strong>in</strong> the ma<strong>in</strong> city of the county, but some of their<br />
activities take place <strong>in</strong> remote areas. Volunteers organisati<strong>on</strong>s have started to ga<strong>in</strong> terra<strong>in</strong>.<br />
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