Evropa preko puta

„Evropa preko puta“- „Europe across the street“, was the title of a thematic evening organized by LDA and FOKUS on Thursday 27th of August in the Restaurant Stara Pizzeria. The evening’s program consisted of different movies and a round table on the topic of mobility and possibilities to travel for young people in Serbia. The first movie shown was “Beyond”, a documentary film produced by a group of young European volunteers. Over 40 young people in Serbia have been interviewed about what they think of Serbia, Europe and European Union, about their hopes and fears related to this topic. The film clearly shows that the visas are one of the main problems for young people in Serbia. The second film, a short movie elaborated in collaboration of international and local volunteers is treating the same topic but in a more artistic way.

After this two movies represents of different organizations and programmes that give young people the opportunity to travel or volunteer abroad were discussing the topic of mobility for young Serbian people in a round table. Sonja Kozlina And Afrim Uka are future EVS-volunteers from Novi Sad and they are actually the first Serbian young people with invalidity ever that are going on a longterm volunteering service. Further participants were Igor Marjanović from AIESEC, Hubai Laszlo from hospitalityclub.org, Miroslav Šokčić from couchsurfing.org and Marko Aksentijević, author of the guide for cheap traveling „Priručnika za jeftino putovanje“.



In the end of the evening the german road movie „Im Juli“ (In July), showing the journey of two young people across the Balkans to Istanbul, was projected.

The whole event was certainly a success. The garden of the Pizzeria contributed to a cosy and friendly athmosphere. The movies made people laugh, as there are for sure very funny moments, but they made reflect and even angry as well, as they are talking about a difficult topic for the young people in Serbia, about their feeling of being imprisoned, isolated of the world. Hopefully the round table could motivate some of the young people in the public to try to travel, altough all the difficulties. The copies of the „guide for cheap traveling“ should help themin doing so. As Marko Aksentijević said: „The most important is not to have money, just start your journey and everything will resolve itself on the way“.