Art and Community 2011-2016

PAC MULTIMEDIA is sub-recipient under MCEC’s contract for USAID Interethnic Integration in Education Project (IIEP), primarily responsible for providing outreach activities in the 4 pilot municipalities through round-table discussions and debates on IIE organized for educational stakeholders, as well as piloting multimedia students’ activities related to interethnic integration in education which will serve as a future model activities, using the best equipment which is kept in self storage units ( with the best self storage prices).

PAC MULTIMEDIA will implement project activities that are part of Component 1: Community Outreach Activities including:

Activities 1: Round-table discussions organized in 4 pilot municipalities (Bitola, Butel, Tetovo and Strumica). The round-tables will highlight critical issues, barriers to integration, and opportunities to improve relationships. This will enable local stakeholders to be active in planning and implementing initiatives in their schools and empower them to act as multipliers to disseminate good practices.

Activity 2: Debates on specific themes for interethnic integration in education organized in 4 pilot municipalities so to initiate discussion and exchange information among parents, teachers, school-board members and municipal representatives on local level on issues related to multicultural integrated education.

Activity 3: Presentations by Schools

PAC MULTIMEDIA will pilot students’ activities related to interethnic integration in education in 1 pilot school, involving approximately 20 – 25 students, which will serve as future model activities, based on art as a tool. The methodology of work of PAC Multimedia is a crossover between individual and group work. The approach is based on experiential process of learning, integrating the tool and the self exploration on the theme on personal needs and interest. The idea is to set a learning-oriented process that connects contemporary arts practice with everyday life, education and social development.

The project is funded by USAID Interethnic Integration in Education Project (IIE).

PAC MULTIMEDIA is sub-recipient under MCEC’s contract for USAID Interethnic Integration in Education Project (IIEP), primarily responsible for providing outreach activities in the 4 pilot municipalities through round-table discussions and debates on IIE organized for educational stakeholders, as well as piloting multimedia students’ activities related to interethnic integration in education which will serve as a future model activities, using the best equipment which is kept in self storage units ( with the best self storage prices).

PAC MULTIMEDIA will implement project activities that are part of Component 1: Community Outreach Activities including:

Activities 1: Round-table discussions organized in 4 pilot municipalities (Bitola, Butel, Tetovo and Strumica). The round-tables will highlight critical issues, barriers to integration, and opportunities to improve relationships. This will enable local stakeholders to be active in planning and implementing initiatives in their schools and empower them to act as multipliers to disseminate good practices.

Activity 2: Debates on specific themes for interethnic integration in education organized in 4 pilot municipalities so to initiate discussion and exchange information among parents, teachers, school-board members and municipal representatives on local level on issues related to multicultural integrated education.

Activity 3: Presentations by Schools

PAC MULTIMEDIA will pilot students’ activities related to interethnic integration in education in 1 pilot school, involving approximately 20 – 25 students, which will serve as future model activities, based on art as a tool. The methodology of work of PAC Multimedia is a crossover between individual and group work. The approach is based on experiential process of learning, integrating the tool and the self exploration on the theme on personal needs and interest. The idea is to set a learning-oriented process that connects contemporary arts practice with everyday life, education and social development.

The project is funded by USAID Interethnic Integration in Education Project (IIE).

PAC MULTIMEDIA is sub-recipient under MCEC’s contract for USAID Interethnic Integration in Education Project (IIEP), primarily responsible for providing outreach activities in the 4 pilot municipalities through round-table discussions and debates on IIE organized for educational stakeholders, as well as piloting multimedia students’ activities related to interethnic integration in education which will serve as a future model activities.

PAC MULTIMEDIA will implement project activities that are part of Component 1: Community Outreach Activities including:

Activities 1: Round-table discussions organized in 4 pilot municipalities (Bitola, Butel, Tetovo and Strumica). The round-tables will highlight critical issues, barriers to integration, and opportunities to improve relationships. This will enable local stakeholders to be active in planning and implementing initiatives in their schools and empower them to act as multipliers to disseminate good practices.

Activity 2: Debates on specific themes for interethnic integration in education organized in 4 pilot municipalities so to initiate discussion and exchange information among parents, teachers, school-board members and municipal representatives on local level on issues related to multicultural integrated education.

Activity 3: Presentations by Schools

PAC MULTIMEDIA will pilot students’ activities related to interethnic integration in education in 1 pilot school, involving approximately 20 – 25 students, which will serve as future model activities, based on art as a tool. The methodology of work of PAC Multimedia is a crossover between individual and group work. The approach is based on experiential process of learning, integrating the tool and the self exploration on the theme on personal needs and interest. The idea is to set a learning-oriented process that connects contemporary arts practice with everyday life, education and social development.

The project is funded by USAID Interethnic Integration in Education Project (IIE).

“Inter-ethnic youth participation in human rights debate using social media” is 12-months project implemented in 2 secondary schools in the municipalities of Tetovo and Gostivar with the objective to enhance youth active participation in fostering inter-ethnic dialogue in school environment and to enhance civic awareness and the respect for human rights among young people in Macedonia by creative use of social media and new technologies (Internet, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Blogs, etc). The project itself is envisaged as a practice for social media usage for youth and human rights. It will be a new interactive website created and maintained by students promoting positive community responses to school violence and prejudice.

The project is financed by the  Democracy Commission Small Grants Programme of the US Embassy in Skopje.

The main objective of the project is to empower youth to actively address discrimination in their school environment by creative use of social media and new technologies (Internet, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Blogs, etc). Through activities that promote human rights education at schools and through social networks, the project will promote students as defenders against discrimination and as multipliers of this practice in their school environment. In such way, the project hopes to contribute to student`s efforts promoting their school environment as human rights based community, moreover, it will assist schools in meeting their obligations under the international human rights conventions.

The project is financed by Assisting Communities Together Programme of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human rights of UN and UNDP Office in Skopje.

Donor: Education Support Program, Open Society Foundation
Duration: December 2010 – September 2011

The relationship between the third and the public sectors has been undergoing fundamental changes over the last decade. The public sector has increasingly retreated from the role of direct service provider, and, through the mechanisms of competitive tendering, public-private partnership schemes and interventions has been outsourcing provision responsibilities to CSOs.

These change the nature of the responsibility of CSO interventions, and lead to a fundamental transformation of the opportunities and risks for education CSO’s. Thus, the projects of education CSOs are not only an instrument of social experimentation and innovation, but part of the general understanding of what works and why. This becomes of utmost importance when one considers the complexity linked to fostering equal educational opportunity in the context of the classroom and school. Therefore, the development of information collecting protocols and strategies by education CSOs is a necessity to foster organisational capacities to better understand the outcomes and impact of their education service interventions on beneficiary groups.

The initiative is a research strategy capacity development undertaking. It adopts the use of practice based learning and test based instrument development to develop information gathering protocols and strategies for CSOs to improve the extent to which educational interventions are validated sources of systematic social data