City Hotel, Ljubljana
Powered by the Western Balkan Youth Cooperation Platform – WBYCP.
Western Balkans Café aims to enable participants to engage in peer discussion, share ideas and provide input required to critically assess salient issues in the region.
Five different tables will be available to all Young BSF 2018 participants to discuss the following topics: reconciliation, internal and external security, economic development and youth participation. Discussions will be moderated and conducted over two blocks of 90 minutes, with one break of 30 minutes between blocks. This will allow participants to select topics that most interest them, and to learn from their peers from around the globe.
All five topics are interconnected in terms of regional and global prosperity and sustainable development. Discussing sustainable economic development without taking into account youth participation is a Sisyphean task; discussing collective security without discussing reconciliation is equally difficult. Therefore, the Western Balkans Café will be set up to enable participants to engage in ideas, share their thoughts and reach lasting solutions.
The peer-to-peer discussions will promote regional cooperation, provide an excellent networking opportunity and promote efforts to engage with civil society in constructive, yet innovative ways to find answers to pressing regional issues.
