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The team at the Lille Youth Center of the Tartu Youth Work Center is organizing Youth Day for the fourth time this year, which will take place on August 12. This is an international day dedicated to understanding the needs of young people. The event will take place in the courtyard of the Lille Youth Center, where a variety of activities will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. For example, young people will have the opportunity to participate in psycho-bus activities, learn parkour, make leather bags, take photos of themselves and their friends with a photo booth or Polaroid camera, learn about CrossFit and BMX, refresh themselves with finger food from the Youth Café, and much more. According to youth workers Liisi Trummi and Markos Parve, last year's biggest attraction was the rodeo bull, which was ridden several times...

Starting September 1, regular visitors will not be able to enter the Anne Youth Center grounds by car. If necessary, please call the director of the Anne Youth Center.

Summer is halfway through, which means the youth work camp summer is in full swing. This year, Tartu youth work camp participants are working in Maxima stores, on strawberry fields, and dismantling smart devices at Foxways, among other places. For the first time, youth work camp participants are also working at Naerumaa kindergarten, assisting kindergarten teachers. As every year, the Tartu Youth Work Center also hired youth work camp participants in its own buildings this summer. There was work available at the Anne, Lille, and Ilmatsalu youth centers. Together, outdoor areas and basements were cleaned, a mini-ramp was painted, various maintenance tasks were performed, and old furniture was dismantled. This summer, 161 young people aged 13-19 from Tartu city will be working in the youth work camp. This year, more job opportunities than usual were open specifically for 13-14-year-olds, for most of whom this is…

On September 1st, 2022, the 'Festival of Wisdom' event, organized by Tartu Youth Work Centre, will take place once again. The event will be held from 3 PM to 8 PM (15-20) in and around the parking lot of the University of Tartu Library. The target group for the 'Festival of Wisdom' is young people. Tartu Youth Work Centre invites youth bands who wish to perform at a city-wide event and thus increase their recognition. Please express your interest by emailing karolin.valge@tartu.ee by August 2nd, 2022, and we will contact you afterwards. Please also include a brief description of your activities with your expression of interest. Tartu Youth Work Centre (TNTK) is a youth work institution managed by the Tartu City Government, operating under the administration of the Department of Culture. TNTK manages three youth centres in Tartu: Lille, Anne, and Ilmatsalu, and two children's centres: Lille and…

Renovation work will take place in the buildings of Anne and Lille youth centers until the end of August. The construction work will not disrupt the centers' activities.

A young Turkish student, Beyza, has come to our organization for an international internship. We conducted a short interview with her to get to know her better. In the interview, you can also learn more about how young people from other countries view the youth work situation both in our country and in their own. Happy reading! [dt_gap height="10" /] [dt_divider style="thin" /] Please introduce yourself in a few sentences. My name is Beyza Göl. I am from Turkey and I am 23 years old. I study International Relations at Ege University in İzmir. [dt_gap height="10" /] Why did you decide to come to Estonia? I came to study at the University of Tartu as an Erasmus+ exchange student. I chose Estonia because I wanted to experience Northern Europe. I wanted to learn about a different climate, culture, and way of life. [dt_gap…

On June 1, the city-wide Tartu Children's Protection Day, themed “Dare to be You!”, took place, encouraging young people to engage in activities that make them feel most like themselves. For those who hadn't yet found a hobby they enjoyed or simply wanted to try something new, the long-standing Children's Protection Day program offered diverse activities. For instance, participants could join a Brain Games outdoor games workshop, explore police and rescue vehicles, try weightlifting at the SK Jõud Junior area, learn football skills at the JK Tammeka and FC Helios area, inquire about study and work opportunities from the Unemployment Insurance Fund, and discover the services offered at the Tartu Youth Work Centre tent, among many other things. Next to Tartu Kaubamaja, a stage featured a program created by Tartu 2024…

Soil and landscaping works are taking place on the Uus 56 plot until the end of July.

At the proposal of the Tartu City Government, starting in July, the children's day center service will be merged with the Culture Department of the Tartu City Government. The Tartu Youth Work Center (TNTK) will become the implementer and responsible party for the children's day center services, operating as a sub-institution of the Culture Department. The children's centers will open their doors from autumn in the Anne Youth Center building (Uus 56, Tartu, 2nd floor) and the Lille Youth Center building (Lille tn 9, Tartu, 1st floor). The future premises of the children's centers will be renovated and adapted to be suitable and modern. The existing Anne, Lille, and Ilmatsalu youth centers will continue their activities as usual. Helen Siska, head of the youth work field, explained that the decision originated from a mapping of the sector conducted in autumn 2021, which revealed that few young people were participating in the service and it was insufficiently accessible to the target group. "To improve the quality of youth work..."