Youth Cultural Center – Bitola (YCC – Bitola) is an independent, non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit youth organization with the mission to unite and develop the creative potentials of young people and encourage civic activism.
YCC-Bitola is one of the leading youth organizations in Macedonia in the field of volunteering, non-formal education of youth, youth work and promotion of the urban culture. YCC – Bitola is national office of non-formal CSO network – Volunteer Center of Macedonia and coordinates the exchange of volunteers on local, regional and international level, educates volunteers, gives consultation services to other subjects and collaborates with different local and international organizations that promote same values.
YCC – Bitola is actively involved in working groups for creation of national and local strategies (Strategy for development of volunteering, Strategy for collaboration with civil society organizations of Municipality of Bitola, Local volunteering strategies for municipalities of Bitola, Tetovo, Kavadarci and initiative for creation of a National Youth Council). In partnership with Creactive – Skopje, SEEYN and NAPOR we are coordinating the national initiative to enhance institutional mechanism for cooperation of youth CSO’s with governmental departments as equal partners in tailoring youth policies and decision making regarding youth work in Macedonia.