The Youth Activism program started working in 2011 when there was a need to open a program that would focus on informal education related to youth activism, provide space for creative and free expression of young people and encourage them to undertake activities that will change the current state in which they operate. The program aims to reduce the gap in communication between young people and institutions and to improve youth organizing through the integration of young people regardless of their social status; demographic, cultural and ethnic background; and sexual orientation. The priority of the program is knowing, respecting and promoting tolerance among young people, as well as increasing their participation and influence in the decision-making process at the local and national level.
Members of the program have the opportunity to be members of Artivism clubs and to implement and participate in activities such as: organizing events, creative actions, workshops, exhibitions and performances. The program has about 100 members who actively use the learned creative skills, multimedia and artistic techniques.
In the past years, the Youth Activism program organized the annual events: the Conference for Social Activism – ENGAGE, the Traveling Exhibition “Anne Frank – History for Today”, the film festival Movies that Matter, as well as other local and national youth events and initiatives. The most significant successes of this program are the establishment and support of the first youth online radio in the country – Radio MOF and the creation and support of the informal performance group Kunstwerkstatt which operated between 2014 and 2020. This amateur theater group twice won the Grand Prix award at the DAF – Kochani Amateur Drama Festival, in 2017 and 2019.