Workshop "How to Reach Local Youth Policy"
Representatives of Urban Culture of Forum of Tuzla Citizens Emina Babovic and Mirela Arifovic participated in the workshop “How to Reach Local Youth Policy”. The workshop was organised from February 27-28, 2006 by Helsinki Citizens Assembly (hCa) Tuzla. This workshop is one of the activities of regional partner project “Young People’s involvement in Decision-making Process”, which main stakeholder is “Civitas Foundation for Civil Society” Kluz, Romania. Workshop was attended by 25 participants, representatives of local government from Zvornik and Tuzla, non-governmental organisations and representatives of Tuzla Canton. Trainer of the workshop was Danijel Dragicevic from Multimedia Youth Centre Zvornik.
During the first day of the workshop, participants were split in groups and they were answering on questions such as “Definition of youth policy and civic participation”, “How young people are informed with the key questions and which sources of information and communication are used for youth involve in decision-making process” etc.
During the second day of workshop, participants were informed about the process of creation of youth policy, and together with the trainer they defined what strategic plan is, and what does it consist. Participants were split in two groups: Tuzla and Zvornik. Group Tuzla defined steps that should be undertaken in order to create youth policy, while group Zvornik, since they already have created strategic plan, defined next activities, which should be undertaken so that their strategic plan could be adopted on the next session of Assembly of Zvornik Municipality. First task of group Tuzla is to form work group that will create youth policy of Municipality of Tuzla. It also was agreed that till the end of March, three meetings of work group will be held, when the work group will be formed, idea will be presented, concrete action plan defined, the analysis of work will be done and research will be started.

Meeting of Urban Culture’s Members
The first meeting in new 2006 was held on 10th March. The meeting was also attended by Nedim Begic, representative of Different Style the music organisation for promotion of electronic music. Members were informed about the common project of Urban Culture and Different Style that will be realised in April. It is about action of cleaning of ruined cultural monument “Discus Thrower”. The aim of this action is raising the awareness of young people on cultural heritage of their town and country. Realisation of action is planned for April 2006, which will include DJ-ing, by Different style while some of the local enterprises will provide food and drinks for volunteers. Volunteers were delighted and more then ready to participate in this action. Then, Mirela Arifovic the co-ordinator of Urban Culture informed attendants that Youth Information Agency will organise the action “Sheep and Snail” on March 18th, on Korzo in co-operation with Urban Culture. This street action will include collection of signatures for the campaign “Sheep and Snail” - citizens’ support to eight demands of youth which were placed in summer 2005 in front of the Parliament of BIH. similar activities were held in Bihac, Banja Luka, Zenica, Zvornik, Sarajevo and Mostar. The second activity of Youth Information Agency in Tuzla is promotion of the hand-book “Active, Young and Sexy” which is dedicated to young people, which offers them possibilities to get ideas how to become socially active. The handbook will be promoted during the party in Club 65 in the evening hours of March 18th. Since the Urban culture will provide technical help to Youth Information Agency in realisation of this action, Youth Information Agency also wanted that some volunteers of Urban Culture join the action as well as to come to the party.

Meeting of the working group that should be working on creation of youth policy in Tuzla; that is creation of action program for youth, was held on March 15th, 2006, in the Youth House Tuzla. Representatives of Urban Culture of Forum of Tuzla Citizens-Mirela Arifovic and Emina Babovic attended this meeting. Meeting was also attended by representatives of non-governmental organisations, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Pedagogical Institute and others. The example of the Memorandum on co-operation for creation of the action program for youth, as well as example of the action plan which is already created in Municipality of Zvornik and which should be adopted on the Session of the Municipality Council were presented during the meeting. Edin Mukinovic also asked attendants get approval for signing the Memorandum from authorised persons in their organisation.

Street Campaign "Sheep and Snail", March 18, 2006
In co-operation with Urban Culture of Forum of Tuzla Citizens, the Youth Information Agency realised the street campaign that included collection of signatures of citizens as the sign of support for eight demands of youth that were placed in summer 2005 in front of the Parliament of BIH. Citizens were signing flyers that contained text: I will not give my vote to the political party… which does not want to invest in youth of BIH and which will not actively work on following tasks in period until the General elections:
1. Adoption of the Law on High Education
2. Creation of special instruments for employment of young people
3. Creation of special section/department for youth issues
4. Establishment of Foundation for Children and Youth of BIH
5. Give the Barrack “Marsal Tito” Sarajevo and “Vrbas” Banja Luka to universities
6. Providing all schools in BIH with computers from funds of three telecoms
7. Planning of strategy how to include young people who are from BIH but live abroad, to participate in development of BIH
8. Opening of youth centres in cities of BIH

During the occasion, volunteers of YIA (from Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Bihac …) and volunteers of Urban Culture collected a great number of signatures of Tuzla citizens. Promotion of the handbook “Active, Young and Sexy” was held in evening hours in Club 65.

Local Youth Policy
The second meeting of the working group for creation of action plan for youth was held in Municipality of Tuzla on March 24th. Representatives of the Municipality of Tuzla attended this meeting. Mirela Arifovic and Faruk Nurkanovic represented Urban Culture of Forum of Tuzla Citizens on this meeting. During the meeting, attendants expressed their readiness to sign the Memorandum on co-operation on creation of action plan for youth. It was discussed about the objectives of action plan, finances, and working plan as well as about the certain fields of work that should be treated during the creation of action plan.
The official signing of the Memorandum on co-operation on creation of action plan for youth of Municipality of Tuzla was organised on April 7th, 2006. The memorandum was signed by representatives of non-governmental organisations: Helsinki Citizens Assembly Tuzla, Forum of Tuzla Citizens, Cult BIH, DC Flamenco, Youth Parliament Tuzla, Sa E Roma-Youth Active as well as by representatives of Municipality of Tuzla, Municipal Council Tuzla (Commission for Youth, Education and Sports), Pedagogical Institute Tuzla, and Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tuzla Canton. Emina Babovic signed the memorandum on behalf of Forum of Tuzla Citizens. The mentioned ones are members of the working group for creation of action plan for youth of Municipality of Tuzla and are committed to co-operate during the creation of the action plan. Principles of co-operation, mutual rights and obligations will be defined during the creation of action plan for youth.

Training "Activist’s Management" Banja Luka, April 14 – 17, 2006
The member of Urban Culture, Oliver Jovic, participated in training "ACTIVIST’S MANAGEMENT" organized by the Youth Communication Centre (YCC) from April 14 – 17, 2006 in hotel “Bosna” in Banja Luka. This training was a sequel, to be more precise advanced level of the training that was held on December 2 – 6, 2005. In three days of training, 20 members of NGOs and social centres from the whole BiH learned the skills of activist’s management which are supposed to be applied in their organizations in the following period. Danijela Juric from VSO and Jugoslav Jevdjic from YCC were trainers to this seminar. Besides lectures, participants worked in groups and through teamwork managed to reach some important conclusions. During this training some these topics were covered: planning of activist’s management, making contract with activists, rejecting and/or firing of activists, developing of evaluation forms, maintaining of activists and recognising their work. Making contract with activists, rejecting and/or firing of activists, maintaining of activists and recognizing their work were the most interesting topics as well as the most important ones. Through team work participants made an experimental form of activists’ contract. Lobbying of municipal, entity and canton authorities on enforcing the law on activist’s management was also discussed. During the three days of training all participants showed a great degree of commitment, and collaborations between various organizations were also established. Trainers to this seminar Danijela Juric from VSO and Jugoslav Jevdjic from YCC did a remarkable job and through interactive and practical work enabled participants’ better understanding of covered topics. YCC Banja Luka provided great working conditions to the participants, accommodation and food. The hope remains, that here will be more seminars of this kind for strengthening of the NGOs’ capacities in the future period.

Global Youth Service Day – April 23, 2006
Forum of Tuzla Citizens - Urban Culture organised the event on the Global Youth Service Day on April 23, 2006 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The event included cleaning of the area around monument "Discus Thrower", which author is famous sculptor from Tuzla- Franjo Leder. In the evening hours lecture on topic "Cultural Heritage of Tuzla - Franjo Leder - Discus Thrower" was organised.
Twenty volunteers of Forum of Tuzla Citizens - Urban Culture participated at this action. They collected trash, branches, painted the round part of the monument, trash cans, planted the flowers, while the famous artist from Tuzla, Emir Sehanovic, painted graffiti on the walls of surrounding garages. With the support of the Department for Communal Issues, our volunteers placed new benches, while the old ones were repaired and painted. Music organisation Different Style from Tuzla was in charge for music and catering during the action.
In the evening hours, in "The Club 65", the lecture on topic "Cultural Heritage of Tuzla - Franjo Leder - Discus Thrower" was organised. The speakers were Mr Cazim Sarajlic, Director of the International Gallery of Portraits Tuzla, and Mr Mirsad Bakalovic, Custodian of the East Bosnia Museum. Mr Cazim Sarajlic talked about life and work of the academic sculptor Franjo Leder, and about the importance of his works by which our town is recognised in the world. Mr Mirsad Bakalovic, the Custodian of the East Bosnia Museum pointed out some important cultural characteristics of Tuzla, which are destroyed because of the sinking phenomenon in Tuzla. Those can be remembered only by pictures and written documents. He emphasized importance of protection and preservation of cultural and historical heritage and mentioned three places in Tuzla that can be proclaimed as cultural values and put under adequate protection of the Institute for Protection of Cultural and Historical Heritage of BiH.
During the lecture, the speakers talked about the materials that Franjo Leder used for his works, his education and other interesting facts related to his life.
For this occasion, volunteers of Forum of Tuzla Citizens – Urban Culture prepared boards that contained pictures and texts about Franjo Leder and his work.
Aim of this action was to influence the awareness of young people as well as all citizens of this town about cultural and historical monuments in Tuzla, and to raise their awareness about town cleanliness, which is the culture of behaving.
Volunteers of Forum of Tuzla Citizens – Urban Culture wanted to use the Global Youth Service Day to give a good example to their peers as well as to all Tuzla citizens, and to show that such a little effort and willingness can make things better and more beautiful.

Press Conference on Attacks of Vandalism on Cultural Monuments in Tuzla
On April 28th, 2006, Forum of Tuzla Citizens- Urban Culture held a conference on recent attacks on cultural monuments in Tuzla, and attempts to destroy cultural and historical heritage of our city.
Speakers were Mirela Arifovic, Emina Babovic, Oliver Jovic and Armin Dervoz. They talked about the latest action that Urban Culture organised on the Global Youth Service Day. In that way young people-members of Forum of Tuzla Citizens-Urban Culture wanted to send a message to all their peers that they can accomplish a lot of things with little effort and willingness. Emina Babovic talked about previous work and projects that Urban Culture realised. Oliver Jovic expressed the attitude of Urban Culture towards recent attacks of vandalism on cultural and historical heritage in Tuzla and send appeal to all citizens, especially to young people, to take part at fight against it and in that way to prevent further destroy of our town. Armin Dervoz invited all young people who are interested to join our group and emphasised that Urban Culture is open for co-operation with other non-governmental organisations on all projects from which young people can benefit. He also expressed hope that Tuzla citizens of all ages will recognise our efforts that they will join us in greater number in some future action, and that local communities will provide greater support for youth activities.

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08.06.2006. – members of Urban Culture of Forum of Tuzla Citizens took part in a TV show “Zabranjeni Forum” at PINK BH. The topic was “Citizens’ Courage” and with other participants members of Urban Culture of FTC had the opportunity to ask various questions guests of this TV show.

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13.06.2006. - members of Urban Culture of Forum of Tuzla Citizens participated in a debate “Youth in Politics” organized by Radio Slon and Konrad Addenauer in Teatar Kabare, Tuzla.
Debaters were members of youth sections of the most influential political parties in Tuzla Canton. The discussion was about the position of the youth in political parties, their work etc.

Seminar "Mark These Elections"
Emir Hadzic, Mirela Arifovic and Jasmin Kurtic members of Urban Culture of Forum of Tuzla Citizens participated in seminar “Mark These Elections” organized by hCa Tuzla in hotel Bristol on June 26 – 27, 2006. This was the first seminar out of the three planned and each of them is conceptualised as an indicator of youth’ active involvement in electoral process.
This seminar and the next two have educational-interactive character and the youth can actively influence creating of pre-election campaign which hCa will organize at the end of September 2006.
The facilitator of this seminar was Aleksandar Zivanovic from hCa Banja Luka and the lecturer was Vehid Sehic, president of Forum of Tuzla Citizens and member of electoral commission in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

"Shake Up the State"
During the campaign "Shake Up the State", Info caravan of the Youth Information Agency (YIA) came to Tuzla on July 20, 2006. The local partner to YIA was Urban Culture of Forum of Tuzla Citizens.
During Info promotion, activists of YIA BiH and Urban Culture of FTC distributed Info brochures about elections, introduced them with electoral process and the importance of their participating in them. Besides having the opportunity of informing about elections, the youth were introduced to the first Bosnian social game “Play, Win, Vote!”, created by members of YIA in order to clarify the principle of electing and deciding to the youth, when they come in the situation to elect or to be elected.
In café Desperados two groups of eight players played Bosnian social game “Play, Win, Vote!” after distributing of promotional materials. In one of the groups, the winner was a member of Urban Culture of FTC Majda Junicic and won the trip to Sarajevo on September 3.

The Project "Info Board"
During the August the Urban Culture of FTC started with the implementation of the project "Info board". Mott Foundation and the Municipality of Tuzla financed the project. The aim of the project is to inform young people in Tuzla in order to influence on their activism, because young man/women can only be active if he/she has information. Info board is placed in the centre of the city, in front of the office of Forum of Tuzla Citizens. Useful information for young people about stipends, scholarships, seminars, training, actions, projects etc. are updated everyday.

Participation in TV Show "Open Parliament" On BHT 1, September 15, 2006
The Youth Information Agency BiH invited members of Urban Culture of FTC to participate in TV show "Open parliament" on BHT 1, on September 15th, 2006. . This TV show is realised by Youth Information Agency, Radio Free Europe, BHT 1, and OSCE. Topic of two episodes of this TV show, which were shot that day was "Youth and Elections".
Audience i.e. participants were students from 5 Universities in BIH (Sarajevo, Bihac, Tuzla, Mostar 1 and Mostar 2) as well as representatives of several youth non-governmental organisations from BiH.
The guests were representatives of 18 political parties i.e. candidates for General election 2006. The concept of this TV show is that representatives of political parties present programs of their party dedicated to youth and has 2 minutes for that, and then audience (students and representatives of youth non-governmental organisations) has opportunity to ask concrete questions. The focus of the questions should be on education, employment, visas and place for living. The research among young people showed that these are the greatest problems of young people in BIH.
Members of Urban Culture of Forum of Tuzla Citizens took active participation in this TV show and asked great number of questions.

Campaign "Vote Against", September 2006
During September 2006 Urban Culture of Forum of Tuzla Citizens realised the project “Vote Against” which aim was to influence on young people to vote during the General Elections on October 1st, 2006. Co-ordinator of the project was Mirela Arifovic.

Central Manifestation of the Campaign "Vote Against" –September 14, 2006
The central manifestation of the campaign “Vote Against” took place at Korzo on 14th of September 2006. During the manifestation everyone, passers-by had the opportunity to write their questions to candidates of political parties on the following elections, and those questions we addressed to the candidates on the public tribune in the cinema “Art”. The activists of Urban Culture FTC distributed promotional material of the campaign, flyers, notebooks and magazines of AEOBIH, and Adnan Hamidovic – Frenkie, the promoter of the campaign, joined the activists as well. DJ Soul was a deejay during the manifestation. He played socially provocative songs in order to influence the young people and all citizens because it is high time they changed the situation in a country. The change in a country will happen if they go to the electoral polls on October 1, 2006.
A large number of people supported and greeted members of Urban Culture FTC, especially young people for this type of activity and from the 14th of September 2006 Urban Culture of FTC has ten new members.

Distribution of Promotional Materials of the "Vote Against" Campaign In Srebrenik, Lukavac And Gracanica
After the central manifestation of the campaign, activists of Urban Culture FTC promoted the other activities of the “Vote Against” project – the public tribune in the cinema “Art”, concert in Club 65 with Frenkie and Defence. The youth from these municipalities showed no interest for the elections and political situation in the country, and our activists tried to encourage them and animate to go to the polls on 1.10.2006. They said if there was no one to vote for, the youth can vote against those who brought our county in situation like this

The Public Tribune – September 20, 2006
The public tribune took place on 20.9.2006 in the cinema “Art” where represenatives of eleven political parties participated, and they are: Robert Jovanovic (E-5), Dusko Stevanovic (SNSD – Milorad Dodik), Selma Novalija (SBiH), Mirza Kusljugic (SDP), Ismar Kutlovac (LDS BiH), Salko Bukvarevic (SDA), Rado Pejic (HDZ – Croation coaolition – HNZ, HSP), Danijel Senkic (BOSS-SDU BiH), Almir Arnaut (BPS – Sefer Halilovic), Denis Dedajic (Movement for Changes BiH) and Ivica Ivanic (HSP- Djapic- Dr Jurisic and NHI – Coalition for Equality).
Faruk Mustacevic was a moderator of the tribune. After the introductory speech of moderator, each candidate got three minutes to represent the program of the party they come from. The emphasis was on employment, education, culture, and social politics. During the central manifestation and distribution of promotional material in Srebrenik, Lukavac, and Gracanica, Urban Culture of FTC analysed the questions and saw that 95% of the questions were from the aforementioned fields. When three minutes were up, a member of Urban Culture of FTC by a whistle blow announced that it was other candidate’s turn. After having finished with their speech, moderator asked several questions concerning employment and education - fields citizens were interested in. the candidates gave the answers and then the audience got the opportunity to address the candidates. Most of the questions were addressed to Mr. Salko Bukvarevic, representative of Democratic Action Party (SDA), and questions were about the previous term of the party, because it was the ruling party in Tuzla Canton. The audience was also interested in employment, education, culture, and social politics, and therefore asked questions regarding these areas of life. The public tribune lasted from 14:00 – 16:00 and there were around 120 of the young people. Participants of the tribune supported members of Urban Culture of FTC for organising this kind of event. They had the opportunity to directly address the candidates of the political parties and make even better choice when it comes to electing on October 1, 2006.

Concert – Frenkie and Defence – Club 65, September 30, 2006
On September 30, 2006, the day of pre-electoral silence, and as a part of the “Vote Against” Campaign, Adnan Hamidovic – Frenkie and Defence performed in Club 65.
At the entrance of the Club members of Urban Culture of FTC distributed promotional material and talked with the visitors about the campaign, the importance of voting during elections etc. They also tried to encourage them to vote on the following General Elections. During their performance, Frenkie and Defence invited all young people to go to the polls on the following day, October 1, 2006 and to vote against those who brought the youth into the situation like this. Damir Smigalovic (VJ Schmigi) was in charge of VJ-ing. Members of Urban Culture of FTC prepared a large material of famous quotations, parts of the songs and those were presented on the screen (don’t give up the fight, fight for your dreams, you’ll be OK, because there’s no one like you in this world, during the fight they’ll try to pull you down, but let’s use this opportunity to change the things and tonight we can truly say that we’re invincible etc.). The photographs that showed social situation in Tuzla and passivity of the youth (beggars, people’s kitchen, a large number of the youth in cafes), GROZD etc. – were also a part of VJ-ing. All of the aforementioned things were supposed to influence the young people to elect the authorities that will be able to improve the situation in the country. Around 2000 of the young people were present on the concert, from Tuzla and neighboring municipalities, who heard for the concert from the activists of members from Urban Culture of FTC, during the promotional part of the “Vote Against” campaign. There were no incidents on the concert.

"Shake Up the State", Tuzla, September 2006
During September 2006, Urban Culture of FTC was the local partner to the Youth Information Agency BiH, in realization of the campaign "Shake Up the State", the goal of which was to encourage the youth to vote on this years elections. So during this campaign on September 25, 2006 Info promotion took place, and on the following day, September 26, the Auction. During Info promotion, promotional material was distributed (T-shirts, posters, timetables, games, and flyers for SMS game). The promotional stand with materials of Info promotion was put at 10:00 a.m. in Tuzla pedestrian zone (the most crowded part of the town) Korzo. The local music organization Different Style was in charge of music and they also played the promotional jingle of the campaign "Shake Up the State".
Activists of Urban Culture of FTC invited the youth to vote at the elections, explaining them the purpose and the goal of Info promotion, announcing the Auction planned for the next day and invited them that at 13:00 a.m. to play the first social game “Play, Win, Vote!” at café Riyadh.
Great number of the young people was interested for Info promotion and they eagerly talked to the activists of Urban Culture FTC, but the greatest interest was for the SMS game. At 13:00, in café Riyadh on Korzo, two teams played social game “Play, Win, Vote!” After the first round of the game, the youth was absolutely delighted. The winners got their own samples of the first Bosnian social game “Play, Win, Vote!”

"The Auction", September 26, 2006
This auction took place at Soni trg. Stands with the name of political parties were placed from the square in order to provide some kind of order and easier passing by of the citizens. The stand with promotional materials of the campaign “Shake up the State” was placed at the end of the square, and DJs from Different Style were in charge of the music and campaign jingles.
One group of activists from Urban Culture of FTC prepared the performance in the shape of labyrinth, symbolizing Bosnia and Herzegovina, where roads are so complicated and tangled, and the entrance is clearly pointed out, but with no way out. At the entrance of the labyrinth, there is a table where the youth could write their own attitude connected to the current situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, alluding to the labyrinth. Comments from the table are signifiers of the sentiment among the young people, denoting some really optimistic stands, while other comments were totally opposite from those ones. Labyrinth was really attractive to the media and participants, and some of them dared into the adventure of finding the way out from Bosnia and Herzegovina, in every possible way.
The activists were separated in teams which distributed the rest of the promotional material. They invited the youth to come to Soni trg and ask the candidates about the following elections everything of their interest, to ask for the clarification for everything unclear to them, and to achieve a direct communication with the potential politicians and find out what sort of programs they offer to the youth.
A thing worth mentioning is that some parties took really seriously their tasks by coming earlier and asking the organizer about positioning and decorating of their stands, as well as what they are allowed to do during the activity and what they are not allowed. Unfortunately, only eight parties came to the Auction, from 25 of those invited. Parties that came with great ease equipped their stands, impatiently waiting for the questions from the youth.
The turnout of the youth was low, but to be more precise, a great number of the youth was circulating through the square and a very small number dared letting themselves in conversation with the candidates. Several of the bravest young people approached some of the stands (there was a group of 5-8 young Tuzla citizens at every stand) asking questions, and at some of the stands you could hear very interesting discussions, conflict between the candidates and the young people, exchange of ideas, opinions and experiences in working with the youth.

Participation in "The Summer School of Democracy and Social Justice", September 2006
From September 21st to 24th, 2006 member of Urban Culture of FTC and the President of Assembly of Forum of Tuzla Citizens participated in "Summer School of Democracy and Social Justice" which was held on Supetar/Brac (Croatia). Organizers of the schools were TOD (Transition to Democracy) and Citizens' Board for Human Rights from Zagreb. Seminar had around 20 participants, senior activists of civil society and youth activists (students) members of youth sections from the ex-Yugoslav area (except Macedonia and Slovenia).
The first day (21st September) passed in arrival of participants and informal meetings. The program of the school had two parts, the morning part (from 9.30-12.00 o’clock) and afternoon part (from 17.00-19.30 o’clock) including discussions after every lecture.
During the second day, following topics were treated:
- Possibilities for degenerations of democracy (moderator: Zoran Pusic- Citizens' Board for Human Rights)
- Science and democracy (Miroslav Radman-MEDILS)
- Civil society between service and mission (Lino Veljak- Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb)
- Development of democracy in the region (Pero Jurisin-STINA)
- Economical sustainability versus social instability (Jagoda Milidrag Smid-SSSH)
- Globalizations and repercussions on the region (Milan Gavrovic independent journalist)

23rd September was dedicated to following topics:
- Gender dimension of memory – about politics of memories (Vesna Kisic- independent journalist)
- Judiciary and war crimes (Mladen Bajic- State lawyer of Republic of Croatia)
- From regional cooperation of non-governmental organizations towards political cooperation in the region (Vehid Sehic-Forum of Tuzla Citizens)
- Concrete examples of cooperation: Regional networks (Aleksandar Popov-CENTRAG)
Participants also had opportunity to see two episodes of documentary “They Talked Differently” which was produced by Igman Initiative.
During the last day of the school following topics were treated:
- International factors and Western Balkans (Bogdan Denic-TOD)
- Relations in the region, reality and perspectives (Zlatko Dizdarevic- independent journalist). Students evaluated this lecture together with the lecture by Mialn Gavrovic, as the most interesting.
Organization of this year’s school was on high level. Attitude of senior colleagues towards the young ones was great. There were no generation barriers. Students also had great relations, even they were different nationalities and religions, by which our member was really impressed. Unfortunately, one incident happened. Student from Croatia said some inappropriate and offensive things about students from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, which can be compared with the politics of Ante Pavelic and political party NDH. One of the organizers Bogdan Denic promised continuation of the summer school in next year, which already become a tradition, and emphasized possibilities for common projects.

Participation in the Youth Program, October 1, 2006
At the invitation of the Youth Movement Revolt, members of which has their own radio show, activist from Urban Culture of FTC – Emina Babovic, was guest on this show on the Election day October 1, 2006. The show was dedicated to the analysis of pre-election campaigns lead by political parties during September 2006, as well as to the different activities of various organizations in order to encourage, and therefore increase the number of the young voters in General Elections 2006. Hosts of the show were Dinko and Azra, and guests were Damir for the YM Revolt and Emina Babovic for Urban Culture of FTC.
In this radio show Emina revealed all activities Urban Culture of FTC realized in September in order to influence on the awareness of the young voters, present the importance of voting, that is the process of electing of our representatives, who will be making decisions for us in the next four years, in a new original way.
She also mentioned the central manifestation of the campaign “Vote Against” which tool place on September 14, 2006 at Korzo of Tuzla. In that event, activists of Urban Culture of FTC distributed promotional materials and in a direct contact with the youth explained the importance of voting and invited them that on October 1 go to election polls, promoting their slogan of the campaign Vote Against (those you think brought the state in this position).
The public tribune from September 20, 2006 was also mentioned. The public tribune took place in the cinema “Art” with the representatives from almost all political parties, and the youth had the opportunity to directly ask candidates various questions. The tribune was rated as very successful by the moderator of the radio show and from the second guest in the studio, concerning the fact that all invited candidates participated in the tribune and that the tribune itself was made in an unusual way, and precisely this was the reason of the great number of young people who participated in this stand.
The concert, with Frenkie and Defence, held in Klub 65 on September 30, 2006 was also mentioned. The purpose of the concert was that they, as the role models of the young people, send the message about the importance of going to the election polls. Great number of people at concert confirmed that the youth communicate at a very special way, in special language, and that the music is the language all the young people understand really well and some of them speak really well.
In the show, the collaboration between Urban Culture of FTC and YIA BiH was also discussed and attendance to the TV show “Otvoreni parlament” (Open parliament) by the members from Urban Culture of FTC , organized by YIA BiH, BHT 1 and OSCE. During the radio show, it was pointed out that this was the great opportunity for the voice of the youth to be heard loudly and clearly, and that the youth should have more opportunities of this kind, because being present in media is surely one important pre-condition for building up or the change of consciousness among the youth when it comes to various aspects of their lives.

Participation in the Programme of Tuzla Television Regarding the Elections October 1, 2006
A journalist of Tuzla Television invited representatives of Urban Culture of FTC to participate in open-air programme regarding elections, since Urban Culture of FTC is one of NGOs that organised certain activities during pre-electoral period. Mirela Arifovic and Armin Dervoz went to Tuzla Television, as representatives of Urban Culture of FTC. They talked mostly about “Vote Against” project, activities and other projects of Urban Culture of FTC. Mirela Arifovic, coordinator of Urban Culture of FTC pointed out that members of Urban Culture of FTC will monitor the elections. Members of Urban Culture of FTC want to determine whether the number of young people who will go the polls will be larger comparing to the local elections. On the local elections, members noticed the rather small number of the youth who voted.

Monitoring Of General Elections –October 1, 2006.
On October 1st, 8 members of Urban Culture of Forum of Tuzla Citizens monitored the voting process during General Elections, as some kind of evaluation of the project “Vote Against” which was realized by Urban Culture of FTC during September 2006 with the aim to influence on young people to vote during the elections, and take more active role in social and political life of community.
Members of Urban Culture of FTC visited nine different election polls.

Observations of monitors:
- Members of Urban Culture of FTC noticed that there was greater number of voters on these General Elections than on Local Elections 2004 when they also monitored the voting process. For our organisation, the number of young voters was important. In addition, there were lot more young voters than in 2004. However, small number of young people who are 18 years old voted during these elections.
- The greatest problem during these elections was that great number of people was not on the lists of registered voters in election polls where they used to vote previously. Members of the Election Boards gave telephone number to people who had this problem. By phone call on this number, they could find out where they can vote i.e. the name of the election poll.
- Members of the Election Boards were not qualified for this job. Because of this, they often made confusion between voters, especially when it comes to process of voting by blind people and invalids who voted with the help of family member. There were cases when the members of the Election Boards tried to vote for some voters.
- At one Election poll, one page of the lists of voters was missing. This problem was solved in a way that it was received by fax from Sarajevo, and the voting process was continued normally.
- During the elections, there were monitors from political parties which noted names of voters, and they should not do that, because the right to vote or not is the private thing of every citizen.

Participation in TV Show "Views" On TV Tuzla
TV Tuzla invited members of Urban Culture of Forum of Tuzla Citizens to participate in political TV show “Views” on October 9th, 2006. The shooting of this TV show was realized in theatre Cabaret in Hotel Tuzla. The guests were representatives of political parties which entered in Canton’s Assembly: BOSS – SDU, SDP, BPS, SDA, HDZ, SBiH, and People’s Party “With Work For Progress”. The President of the Cantonal Election Board Mrs Nadira Asceric was also invited as the guest.

Audience had opportunity to ask questions to representatives of political parties. Almost all guests in audience asked questions, but they did not have opportunity to reply to politicians, because politicians are well trained to avoid answers to questions. Politicians also took a lot of time with their monologues, and moderators of this TV show did not know how to stop them and to give chance to audience to ask more questions, because this TV show is made for them i.e. citizens.
TV Tuzla followed example of other media and realized TV show of interactive character, but this task was not realized in a qualitative way. Because of the inexperienced workers or inappropriate equipment the shooting of TV show started one hour later then it was planned. There were no enough tape, and guests Salko Bukvarevic and Mirnes Ajanovic were late, which was one more reason why the shooting of the TV show was late.

Artistic and Literature Evenings in Club 65
Majda Junicic and Jasmin Kurtic, members of Urban Culture of Forum of Tuzla Citizens organized the night of poetry in Club 65, on October 26th. Mirela Arifovic, coordinator of Urban Culture of Forum of Tuzla Citizens managed to find space at Club 65 and by that she enabled the realisation of this idea, without writing projects and finding any funds from donors.
One week before, we announced the contest for young poets to participate and enrich the literature night in Club 65. Announcements were pasted all over the town, and faculties also. Participation of young poets from Tuzla was planned for the first night. Poet Sejla Sehabovic should come as our special guest, but because of obligation to her publisher, Sejla cancelled her participation, but greeted the idea and obligated us to inform her regularly about our future activities.
During the first literary evening, six young poets presented their work. Young authors read their literary work with appropriate music, made breaks in changing, and had a full freedom during their interpretation.
The visit was very weak, but expected. Small number of young people came, but they were true fans of art who greeted our idea and told us that we should place more posters through the city so that the visit could be greater. Impressions about this first night were good. During the conversation with some of our visitors, and with participants we felt satisfaction with the idea, and they told us, that such evenings should be organised much earlier in our town. The whole idea was realized without any financial support of sponsors, and Forum of Tuzla Citizens provided technical help for it.
On November 16th, the second poetic evening was organized. Five young poets and young violist Natasa Kakes participated. Team of Radio and Television of Tuzla Canton made a story about this happening in Club 65, which was broadcasted in their most popular TV show “Nedjeljni kolaz” (“Sunday Afternoon”). During the occasion the coordinator of Urban Culture of FTC Mirela Arifovc talked about the previous activities of Urban Culture while Majda Junicic presented the idea of artistic evenings in Club 65, and invited all interested ones to call us, and schedule presentation of their works.
Natasa Kakes opened the evening with her performance. Young poets, Davor, Melida, Mersa, Vildana read their poetry sitting by the table on the stage which was decorated especially for that occasion. Adnan Hrvic then played his performance “Glycerin Tears”, sitting on the floor, beside 40 candles, which formed the sign of internity, aromatic wands and Indian linen. Pauses between readings were followed with appropriate music. .
November 23rd was dedicated to photography exhibition of young Selma Delalic and Boris Pejic. They placed their works on the windows of the Club 65, trying to put the exhibition in unusual way. During the evening, two short documentary films of young director Damir Pejic were also played. Films are about the life in Tuzla, and Damir received the award for these films as very talented director.

Participation in the Seminar "Local Authorities and Youth"
Member of Urban Culture of Forum of Tuzla Citizens Jasmin Kurtic participated in seminar “Local Authorities and Youth” which was organized by Youth Information Agency BiH from November 10th-12th, 2006 in hotel Terme, Ilidza.
Participants of the seminar were representatives of youth non-governmental organizations as well as representatives of local authorities.
The first day of the seminar was dedicated to presentation of the Youth Information Agency BiH and its activities. On the second day, participants, in groups, should define the best way of communication between youth and local authorities, but unfortunately it did not happen because two workshops of one hour were held, while the rest of the day passed in presentation of youth organizations that were chosen by Youth Information Agency. The third day should been dedicated to making of conclusions, but because there were small number of activities during the previous two days, the conclusions could not be made.

Regional Conference "The Role of Youth in Struggle against Discrimination and Intolerance in BiH"
The Youth Information Agency and OSCE organized the regional conference "The Role of Youth in Fight Against Discrimination and Intolerance in BiH" on November 6th, 2006 in BIT Centre. Participants were high scholars and representatives of non-governmental organizations from Tuzla Canton.
Mirela Arifovic, Majda Junicic, Jasmin Kurtic, Igor Nenadic, Amela Osmanovic and Sanel Padzic attended the workshop on behalf of Urban Culture of Forum of Tuzla Citizens.
Before the workshop started two representatives of OSCE explained some terms related to context of discrimination and intolerance, and emphasized that discrimination should always be compared to someone or something. Through the workshop they also explained phrases such as positive discrimination, which is used on young talents, as well as difference between intolerance and discrimination so that participants do not misinterpret those two terms.
After work in groups, the moderator in cooperation with two representatives of OSCE chose following problems: discrimination on the basis of social status/employment, religious and national discrimination, discrimination of Roma people, discrimination because of the sexual orientation, discrimination on basis of physical appearance, culture – copyright, discrimination towards people with disabilities and discrimination on the basis of health condition (HIV/AIDS). Members of eight formed groups made sketches, afterwards the questions were asked and constructive solutions were given and suggested. Before the end of the workshop moderator Jan Zlatan Kulenovic and member of the Initiative 21 presented books that can be useful for nongovernmental organization which are fighting against discrimination. Some books that were presented are: Domino, Compass, and Introduction to Human Rights.

Visit to Parliament of BiH
Youth Information Agency BiH organised the visit of students of journalism from whole Bosnia and Herzegovina to Parliament of BiH, on November 16th, 2006.
Asim Saric the student of the journalism, member of Urban Culture of FTC visited the Parliament of BiH. Students visited rooms and offices of the Parliament, attended lecture on history of the Parliament building, structure and Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. TV Show “Open Parliament” was presented during the lecture. The aim of this TV show is to inform youth and present them the work of Parliament. The project is realized in cooperation with the NGO sector with support of international institutions. The goal is to influence on greater interest of BH public for the work of most important judiciary body in BiH.

Conference "Peace Building – Process and Results"
The conference on “PEACE BUILDING – PROCESS AND RESULTS” was held in hotel “Tuzla” on November 18, 2006 and moderator of this conference was Aleksandar Trifunovic, the journalist from Banja Luka.
This conference had three openings, and the first was the one from Dr. Lejla Panjeta (Research Documentation Centre, Sarajevo) on topic “The Process of Reconciliation and Peace Building in BiH”. The second was from Aleksandar Zivanovic (Banja Luka) on topic “Obstacles, Challenges and Possibilities of Peace Building in BiH”. The last one was from Ljuljeta Goranci Brkic “How to Reach Long-lasting Peace and Stabile Society”. Discussions followed after every opening. Around forty persons attended conference, and one half of this number were young people. Participants came from large number of cities and municipal in BiH (Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Vlasenica, Bratunac, Bijeljina, Tuzla…)
Members of Urban Culture FTC Selma Selimovic and Jasmin Kurtic participated in conference. Conference was successfully realized, because discussions were