ESC: Summer in the city vol.2

Institute for youth and sport Trbovlje (Zavod za mladino in šport Trbovlje - ZMŠT) is a public institution, which was founded in 2020 by the municipality of Trbovlje with the purpose of gathering and dissemination of information for young people, coordination and implementation of activities for youth, European cooperation in the field of youth, service activities for individuals and organizations, the implementation of activities of a broader importance and fundraising in the field of youth sector. In the field of sport it was established to care for the development of sports in the municipality and the management of sports facilities. ZMŠT is the legal successor of the Trbovlje Youth Center which has years of experiences in the field of youth work and was established in 2001.In the following text, we will focus on the experience and references gained by the Trbovlje Youth Center in the years since its establishment and which are now continuing within the ZMŠT institute.

ZMŠT in one part of the institute’s purpose (important for the field of European volunteering and purpose of this accreditation) operates under the law of public interest in the youth sector and follows the statutory requirements of this Act in the field of youth. ZMŠT operates mainly at the local level, but connects and operates in the whole Zasavje region.

At the local and regional level, we work with many public institutions, organizations and societies, as we are recognized as a reliable and effective partner. We also regularly participate in national projects and we perform a number of international activities. Since 2005 we carried out more than 70 different international projects within different national calls and calls of European and other programs (perform host and sending seminars, trainings, study visits, youth exchanges, European volunteering projects, local and trans-national initiatives etc.).