Slovenia - DRUSTVO ZA RAZVIJANJE

Društvo za razvijanje prostovoljnega dela Novo mesto (Association for Developing Voluntary Work Novo mesto) is Slovenian non-governmental and humanitarian organisation, working in the public interest in the area of social care, youth and culture. Our mission is to contribute to more inclusive and open society for all. Our two leading programs therefore deal with inclusion of socially excluded groups and with the stimulation of the NGO development and civil dialogue. Our activities within the programs are performed by expert and voluntary work. We promote the values of solidarity, tolerance, voluntarism, active living, clean environment, citizenship awareness and inter-cultural dialogue… DRPDNM has 23 years of experience in education, youth, citizens, migrants, woman, workers empowerment, international cooperation, entrepreneurship, professions in history, culture and art, unemployment, disadvantaged groups empowerment, training and other activities that serve the goals of your projects DRPDNM Strategic objectives: 1. To provide a team of professionally trained workers employed for a number of years to ensure the continuity of the programmes and to expand voluntary work.

2. To increase the visibility of our Organization for key stakeholders (NGOs, public administration, economy, socially excluded groups) and to establish cooperation with them.

3. Empowerment of the narrower key stakeholders (young people, socially excluded and NGOs).

Programs to achieve our mission

A. The integration of socially excluded groups a) Day centre for children b) Day centre for Roma children (Day Centre Brezje, Day Centre Šmihel) c) Promotion of intercultural dialogue

B. Promote the development of non-governmental organizations and civil dialogue 2) working with young people using culture/arts as a factor in integration into the employment market

Latest projects on youth empowerment, youth unemployment, promotion of participation and inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities We are interesting in the program SEOSOS due to the fact that we are caring about clean environmental but also we have experience a lot of experience in entrepreneurship and we can have good ideas so to make the whole implementation of the program more interesting and more entrepreneurs to be there. All our members that will involved in the program have theoretical and practical experience in the fields of social work, minority cooperation, R&D, NGO, CSO, SME CONSULTING, intercultural dialogue, business planning, local government, migration, intercultural management, entrepreneurship, international relations and cooperation, foreign policy, citizenship, project development, local/regional authorities, decision forecasting models, control system design, marketing, international marketing, international economics, international market research, logistic systems analysis, business communication, human resources, innovation, strategic management, sustainable development