Student Youth Council

Georgia

http://www.syc.ge/

Organization has been established in 2001 by four student organizations, promoting establishment of high education standards in Ozurgeti (Guria region, West Georgia).

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

On the base of organisation is functioning the non-registered children union *Sunny Yard*.

Organization is a founder of *EuroClubs* - working in the schools of Guria Region.

The organization is: associate member of *National Council of Youth Organizations Georgia* (www.ncyog.ge); corresponding-member of the international youth organization *Youth Human Right Movement* (www.yhrm.org); associate member *Youth European Network – EURO-NET* (www.eng.synergy-net.info); member of the *European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees – UNITED* (www.unitedagainstracism.org); is a part of working group in our country in the frames of *European Youth Campaign for Diversity, Human Rights and Participation - All different, All Equal* (www.alldifferent-allequal.info).

Since 2006 year we`ve involved in “Youth in Action” programme actively and till this time we`ve took part in 19 different kind of activities at least in: 5 “Youth Exchanges”, where we were co-organizer sending organization and the co-organizer host organization of two projects as well as.

Since 2008 year we`ve involved actively in the “Action 2 – EVS” through “Youth in Action”. We had 11 EVS volunteers in our organization; also we`ve sent the Georgian volunteers in Poland, Greece, Czech Republic, Italy and Romania.