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	Macedonian National Committee
	>	Background
	>	Tasks
	>	Preparing activities
	>	Establishing of the Macedonian National Committee
	>	Pilot-contest
	>	Prize-giving ceremony
	>	Long term activities

MACEDONIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE

Background
European house Skopje is familiar whit the existing of Europe at school project on international level since the founding or the organization. Since then it is in the annual plan of work. First contacts whit Europe at School were made whit the European House Zagreb. Due to the complexness of the situation in Macedonia in the past several years, our priorities were set on different issues, and we had to set Europe at School as a second priority. Since the stabilization of the situation in Macedonia, we realized that we could work more actively on the project this year. European House Skopje was accepted as a Macedonian Preparatory Committee of Europe at School on the 45 th Meeting of the European Committee in Brussels, 8-11 March 2003. Since then the Preparatory Committee is in a closer communication and preparation for introducing the project in Macedonia.

Tasks
The task of the Preparatory Committee is to set all necessary conditions for establishing of the Macedonian National Committee of Europe at School. In order to do so, the Preparatory Committee will start an intensive communication whit the relevant institutions, organizations and respective citizens.

Preparation activities
The work of the Preparatory Committee , till now , was based on making contacts and promoting of the project Europe at School preparing for establishing of the Macedonian National Committee of Europe at School and organizing the pilot Competition . Because of the nature of the project we had to get opinion from the Bureau for development of the education and formal permission for realizing the project from the Ministry of Education. In the preparing period the Committee was focused on realization of the following activities:

Establishing of the Macedonian National Committee

The Macedonian National Committee of the Europe at School is comsisted of representatives from the relevant institutions, organizations and respective citizens that participate in the activities created with the international project Europe at School under the Forum for Education of the European House Skopje.

The Macedonian National Committee of the Europe at School was established on 1 th of April 2004. The delegated representatives are the following:

Veselinka Ivanova		The Ministry of Education and science
Sofka Koceva, Petre Nanevski, Blaga Paneva		The Bureau for developing the education
Agon Demjaha		The Balkan Children and Youth Foundation
Toni Masevski, Zoran Dimitrov		European House Skopje
Violeta Zivkovska		The Agency for Youth and Sports
Jovan Cenev		The Macedonian Committee of the European Youth Parliament
Pane Kocevski		Art Teachers Union of Macedonia
Goce Cvetanovski		Union of the Organizations for Macedonian language and Literature of Macedonia
Jordan Gligorov		Sector for European Integration of the Government of R. Macedonia

In this phase the National Committee will work for performing the pilot-contest with the activities, as follows:

Pilot-contest

The target group of the pilot-contest will be ten Secondary schools, whish will be defined afterwards.

Target-group of the competition are students from I-IV grade from the State Secondary schools that are already defined. The students will compete in two categories:

Competition in literature and
Competition in art

The students (pupils) participate in the competition on voluntary basis. The pilot-contest will be announced by posters and leaflets, containing all the necessary information about the contest, like: rules, dates, awards etc. The school-level winners works will be handed to the National Juries that will reach the final decision and will announce the final prizewinners in both of the categories, art and literature. The final prizewinners will be announced during the Prize-giving ceremony on May 9 th, The Day of Europe.

Prize-giving ceremony

All the school-level winners works, that were in the final, will be exposed at the ceremony, so the public can see them. The announcement of the award winners will also take place, and the written works of the winners will be read. The award winners will be the ones that will give speeches, sending the European massage to Macedonia.

Long term activities

Regardless to the previous project development, the Europe at School contest will continue to be realized on annual basis, following the timelines that are recommended in the European Committee of Europe at School, starting from September 2004. The complete structure will be defined by then. The Macedonian National Committee of Europe at School will define the forms of contests that will be announced, the target groups and the level of implementation.