Donje Puticevo Nova Bila
72276 Travnik
Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Youth and education
About us
The Center for Lifelong Learning is an NGO founded in 2015. It is a place of exchange of knowledge and experience of renowned experts and users who want to improve knowledge and build skills. The Center is a support on the path of development, both business and individual – by developing the personal and business competencies of the individual.
Our vision is to establish a Center of New Technologies and Entrepreneurship and be leaders of the digital age in Central Bosnia who will help companies and individuals to recover / digitize – by offering new technologies.
In recent years, SCU has continuously maintained and implemented education in the fields of IT, entrepreneurship, digital marketing and foreign languages. We have implemented several projects within these areas in cooperation with other organizations from BiH, surrounding countries, as well as the EU.
Structure of the organization
SCU has a president, accountant, project manager and coordinator (assistant) and over 30 external associates with whom it actively cooperates.
Center for Lifelong Learning has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Faculty of Information Technology of the University of Vitez, Travnik International University, Open University Zagreb, Canton of Central Bosnia, Municipality of Travnik, Organic Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Diaspora for the Development of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Starkmacher e.V. amoGermany, Association for The Economics of Communion from the Republic of Croatia. We would like to point out that we have a good cooperation with the Ministry of Education SBK/KSB, which is familiar with our goals for STEM classroom and it provides support in the form of communication with school principals/principals, in order to animate our future students together.
It is precisely the civil sector that plays an important role in promoting various STEM fields, i.e.
it represents an additional force that can design, initiate and carry out a number of significant activities, and therefore it is necessary to expand their existing capacities and respond to the demands of citizens.
Budgetary resources available in a year - income of own activities (education in the field of foreign languages, IT, entrepreneurship)
Sources of funding - income of own activities and by projects
Modalities of action - concrete projects
Main partners involved in the organization's projects/activities: Katriel d.o.o, Faculty of Information Technology of the University of Vitez, BASIC Zenica
Our mission is quality education and participants who ultimately aim to be hired or work independently, develop small and medium-sized entrepreneurship.
Objectives:
• Affirmation and development of culture, education and sports.
• Increasing the value of human capital in the country, through improvement of the
educational and qualifying structure of the population of KSB/SBK.
• Support and empower young people, create conditions for young people to prove their
values through lifelong learning and achieve a better social understanding of the
community.
• Reduce the isolation of young people and the unemployed from the rest of society
• Provide artists and cultural professionals with adequate access to public life in
general, educational institutions.
• Enable communication between users of lifelong learning centres.
• Connect artists and cultural workers with people from their background.
• Acquisition and exchange, of all types of goods, as well as the provision of certain
services, which serve to achieve the program goals and activities of the Association, in
accordance with legal regulations.
• Establishing contact with institutions, associations, legal and physical faces that take
care of the development of a society of knowledge, skills and competences, as well as
other civil society organizations in order to raise the competitiveness of society.
• Organizing and developing volunteer work and volunteering programs.
• Meeting the specific educational needs of special and especially marginalized social
groups.
• Cooperation with the EU on training programmes for young people and reducing
unemployment.
• Educating the public about the possibilities of affirming an individual through lifelong
learning.
Recent projects:
BY LEAP - "Development of the Youth Entrepreneurial Mentality" December 2021 - August 2022, funded by the European Union
STEM - phase I "STEM classroom - the path to knowledge, science and innovation" September 2021 - December 2022" - donation of Republic of Croatia
ENTREPRENEURSHIP - "Young entrepreneurs - agents of change in the digital age" - funded by US Embassy july 2020 -July 2021
ERASMUS+ "Living diversity 2019" and "Living diversity 2020"
The Centre for Lifelong Learning can be the place of activities related to
-STEM
-entrepreneurship
-IT
-foreign languages
and be the partner of other associations, educational institutions and economic entities.
We would like together with ALF Network improve the positive perception among the cultures and communities of the region through forums, educational programs, news and information, culture, civil initiatives etc.