Presentation
INTRODUCTION
The National Youth Council of Slovenia is an umbrella organisation uniting all national youth organisations irrespective of their various interests or ideological and political orientations. Its efforts and activities are based on the premise that the association of young people should be autonomous and integrated into a free and democratic society. Since its establishment (April 1990), MSS has made a valuable contribution to cooperation among youth organisations at the national, local and international levels.
Since 2001, MSS has been registered on the basis of the Youth Councils Act, which regulates its status, operation, activities and financing and imposes on the Government, ministries and other state authorities the requirement to inform MSS about the drafting of laws and regulations that have an immediate impact on the life and work of young people.
PURPOSE AND TASKS
The purpose of MSS is to help create an environment that facilitates young people growing up into that mature personalities that society will need in the future. We want young people to become, as individuals and as members of society,
- autonomous, capable of making decisions and running their own lives;
- capable of showing solidarity with others and of actively caring for them;
- responsible for and capable of accepting the consequences of their own decisions;
- capable of commitment, and living in harmony with their values and supporting the ideals they consider worthwhile.
The tasks of MSS are defined as follows:
- facilitating the participation of young people in the adoption of laws and implementing regulations that impact on the lives and work of the young;
- providing conditions for the work and development of interest-focused association of young people;
- acting as an advisory body on all questions related to youth and their organisations and influencing the content of youth policy so that it complies with the interests of MSS member organisations;
- implementing activities in the fields of social policy for children and youth, education, leisure-time activities, culture, public information, and international cooperation;
- promoting the development of youth organisations as an instrument of the young and of their active participation in public life;
- promoting the development of young people’s voluntary organisation and strengthening the activities of youth organisations, irrespective of their different interests and ideological or political orientations in their operation;
- representing youth organisations at home and abroad.
