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This week, January 16-20, Tartu Youth Center is hosting Board Game Week. The event is being held in cooperation with board game store Brain Games. Board Game Week runs from Monday to Friday, during which various board games will be played with young people. Games such as Carcassonne, Sushi Go, Klask, Lama, and others will be played, provided by Brain Games.   On Thursday, Brain Games game leaders will visit three centers (Anne and Lille centers for 12-19 year olds and Ilmatsalu Youth Center) to teach young people and youth workers how to play the board game Carcassonne. The lessons will take place between 3 and 6 p.m. We will end the board game week on Friday with board game tournaments in all centers, featuring games chosen by the young people themselves. The winners will receive prizes from Brain Games and Tartu...

During the first week of the year, our youth workers broke the routine in a fairytale glass house, in the magical Christmas city on Tartu Town Hall Square. Visitors who entered the house were offered various creative activities. For example, young people could design socks, t-shirts, and fabric bags; those who wished could draw, and those who wished could play board games. During the day, they met both older and younger visitors, as well as their parents, who also learned a lot about the Tartu Youth Work Centre. What do the youth workers who were on site say about the experience? Aveli: "I liked the atmosphere of the little house. Everyone who entered our doors was open to conversation and other exciting activities. The most memorable part of the Christmas city for me was the little friends who eagerly recycled..."

Perhaps you have already heard us mention terms like MONO or mobile youth work or inviting youth work? This is quite likely, because in addition to open youth work, our focus for two years has been precisely inviting youth work, which is part of mobile youth work! The goal of inviting youth work is to introduce youth work opportunities to young people and to reach young people who would not otherwise come to the centers. You can read more about it here. On November 24, the final seminar of the Erasmus+ project "Street Youth Work ABC", organized by the Tartu Youth Work Center and Baltijas Regionalais Fonds, took place at Tartu Kammivabrik. Participants were from both Estonia and Latvia, and together they discussed communication with young people, reflection, preparation, and interventions in street youth work…

Margit Kink, director of the Tartu Youth Work Center, shared her experiences with the Tartu Postimees newspaper regarding the involvement of a sign language youth worker in the activities of the youth center. "The Tartu Youth Work Center hired a sign language youth worker with the help of the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund. The center's director, Margit Kink, says that the experience was enriching, increased the empathy of the entire team, and showed them that there is no need to be afraid of communicating with sign language users."   Read more in the article⤵️ https://www.postimees.ee/7653252/viipekeelse-inimese-kaasamine-meeskonda-rikastab-kogu-kollektiivi

Are you at least 13 years old? Are you interested in the world of podcasts? Are you looking for a new challenge? Then YOU are exactly who we are looking for! Specifically, the podcast "Noorteaken" operating under the Tartu Youth Work Center is looking for awesome young people for its team. It doesn't matter if you are interested in hosting, scriptwriting, editing, or social media marketing – we will definitely find an opportunity for you to work with the "Noorteaken" team according to your interests. To apply, fill out the form you can find HERE by December 11th at the latest, and we will contact you very soon! PS: The first meeting will take place on the afternoon of December 14th, and a training day on January 5th. Additional information: Helene Toomeoks, TNTK Development Manager, helene.toomeoks@tartu.ee

On Thursday, November 17, the International Day of Premature Babies is celebrated. Within this framework, both Anne and Lille youth centers join the call to change outdoor lighting to lilac for one evening. Every tenth child is born into this world before the expected time, i.e., before the 37th week of pregnancy. On the evening of November 17, the day of the birth of premature babies, the world will be colored lilac in honor of prematurely born children, their families, and all supporters. Lilac is the characteristic color of premature birth, celebrating the beginning of life and symbolizing optimism. The lighting solution for the youth centers' buildings will be provided by Sound Group OÜ, who also helped with lighting last year and whose representative Ülari Toots came up with the idea last year. Read more: https://enneaegsedlapsed.ee/uudised/ Additional information: Maarja Enumäe Anne youth center…

What do you do with the pocket money you've been given? How do you plan to use the money you received for a birthday or special occasion? Have you also thought about how you could use the pocket money given by your family most effectively? Here are some ideas on how you can manage your own money: Think carefully about purchases before deciding to buy something. Having received a specific sum for a day, week, or month, you might feel an inner joy from getting money and the opportunity to spend it on yourself. Nevertheless, we recommend considering a few questions before making a purchase: 1) Is the upcoming purchase NECESSARY? 2) How long should this money last me? 3) What...

In September a cooperation project between Estonia and Finland took place in Tartu, within the framework of which a large interactive graffiti was made under the Friendship Bridge. The implementation lasted from September 6 to September 9. On September 10 at 11 a.m., took place the official opening of the graffiti. Grafiti is produced within the project "Diggiloo - Cultural production from youth to youth 2022–2023". In conjunction with this event, a new episode was also made in our podcast "Noorteaken". In this episode of the podcast, we can hear musician Liisa Tulvik, who will perform at the opening of…

Youth workers are the main characters of our center, around whom everything revolves. To emphasize and further highlight their importance, Youth Work Week is celebrated nationwide from November 7-13. In Estonia, the importance of youth work has been highlighted since 2010, and its aim is to showcase the opportunities in the youth sector and youth work by creating favorable non-formal learning environments together with young people and youth sector workers (Harno, 2021). This year, the focus is on creativity and self-development. We also celebrate Youth Work Week to value our dear youth workers for their great contribution to our young people. This week, young people can swap places with youth workers and try out what it feels like to be a youth worker, as well as put their own creativity to work by preparing for other young people (and for young people...