The culmination of the training program for Student Councils was the realization of the youth initiative Exchange of Student Councils and Parliaments. Its organizers were Christiana Kireva - chairman of the Student Council of Hristo Smirnenski High School, Hisarya, and Ivo Yovchev - chairman of the Student Council of the Private Vocational High School of Informatics and Computer Sciences Academic Blagovest Sendov, Plovdiv.
The main idea of the young people was to gather Student Councils and Parliaments from the city of Plovdiv and the region, so that they could exchange experience and good practices, as well as create opportunities for joint activities.
The Student Councils and Parliaments of the following schools took part in the exchange: Hristo Smirnenski High School, Hisarya, Academician Blagovest Sendov Private Vocational High School for Informatics and Computer Sciences, Plovdiv, National High School of Commerce - Plovdiv, Peyo Kracholov Yavorov High School ", Plovdiv, Tsar Simeon the Great High School, Plovdiv, Vocational High School of Transport and Construction Technologies Gotse Delchev, Plovdiv, Vocational High School Gen. Vladimir Zaimov, Sopot and Professional High School of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy Architect Kamen Petkov, Plovdiv.
The three-day program included topics such as: getting to know one another, student government and its alternatives, leadership, team work, task allocation, organizing an event, budgeting, aggression and bullying at school and the future of young people.
The initiators - Chrisy and Ivo together with Natalia Dokuzova were the main presenters of the event. Representatives of the Big Brother, Big Sister - Bulgaria Association also played the role of facilitators for some of the sessions. They presented the form National Student Parliament with its initiator Dimitar Ferdinandov. In addition, activists in student self-government participated - Petya Boekova, Simeon Markov and Atanas Nachev.
In the final session, entitled Together From Here On, Student Councils and Parliaments discussed their future plans for meetings and mutual assistance.
The youth initiative is realized as part of the project "Youth Centre Plovdiv - a powerful factor for local development" under the program "Local Development, Poverty Reduction and Enhanced Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups, financed by the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area 2014-2021.
Project № BG06-103 "Establishing a Youth Centre in the City of Plovdiv" under the programme "Children and Youth at Risk", component 1 "Care for Youth at Risk" with the financial support of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway by the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area 2009-2014.
Project № BGLD-1.003-0002 "Youth Centre Plovdiv - a powerful factor for local development" under the programme “Local development, poverty reduction and enhanced inclusion of vulnerable groups” funded by the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area 2014-2021.