The association World Youth Wave is a group of students and young professionals, with a mission to give young people a chance to express themselves, their thoughts, ideas, believes, and connect them on a global level through projects which promote culture and education.

Recognising the fact that the youth sector is the future bearer of stable democratic societies in the region as well as in the world, and realizing that all present and possible future burning issues can be dealt with only through mutual respect, understanding and learning, an idea about fresh and enthusiastic organization was born.

World Youth Wave was founded on October 24, 2005, as a non-party, non-governmental and non-profit organisation. The organisation was established with the following goals:

• Strengthening the youth sector in Serbia - promoting and supporting involvement of youth on the Serbian public scene
• Promoting and encouraging student and youth projects, ideas and experiences in culture and education
• Improving communication among students and youth in the country and across Europe
• Setting the basis for a long-term and established co-operation between the participating organisations - promoting closer regional cultural cooperation and interethnic dialogue between youth and student NGOs in the different countries of SEE
• Promoting the values of mutual respect and understanding as well as need to fight against prejudice, racism and xenophobia through processes of cultural exchange and intercultural learning among young people
• Cooperating and networking with organizations of similar orientation and other relevant institutions in the eve of regional and overall European integration and unification.

When we take a closer look at the concrete situation in the country, unfortunately we have to face the fact that young people are still one of the biggest marginalized groups in Serbian society, without being given chance to participate in the society in a way their European colleagues can. Creating a healthy, well educated and open minded youth is undoubtedly of utmost importance for one nation and represents one of the greatest reasons why a lot of things need to be done urgently to allow for new youth programmes. WYW tends to actively take part in all discussions and initiatives which have been agitated in past few years regarding youth issues.


The central project of World Youth Wave is International Student Week in Belgrade, which has been organized twice, in 2006 and 2007. ISWiB 2007 has gathered over 150 students from all over Europe who participated in variety of workshops, panel discussions and lectures, covering fields of economics, education, art, culture and ecology. Beside ISWiB, WYW runs another successful project - international web magazine for students, Wave Magazine. Also, WYW was establisher of Erasmus Student Network Section in Belgrade, and was organizer of Erasmus Day in April 2007.

Through each of the projects that World Youth Wave has launched so far, especially ISWiB as the most comprehensive of all, our organization has promoted in practice the objectives that has promised it would stand for.

We are registered with the Register of Citizen Organizations/Associations of Ministry for Human and Minority Rights.

Decision reference number: 210 1955/2 2005-06
Registration association number: 17639382


BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS

Tax Identification No: 104184159
Account number: 205-105607-69, Komercijalna Banka A.D. Beograd

For international transfers:

Intermediary Bank / Correspondent Bank:
SWIFT - BIC: DRESDEFF
Name: Dresdner Bank AG
City, Country: Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY

Account with institution / Beneficiary's Bank:
SWIFT - BIC: KOBBRSBGXXX
Name: Komercijalna Banka A.D. BEOGRAD
Street: Svetog Save 14
City, Country: Beograd, SERBIA

Beneficiary:
IBAN / Account Number: RS35205007080003196466
Name: Svetski omladinski talas, World Youth Wave
Street: Prve pruge 25/24
City, Country: 11080 Beograd, SERBIA