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Push LAB is a non governmental, not for profit and apolitical initiative formed to gather, educate and activate young people. Our goal is to inspire them to become actively involved in the life of their community and to organise activities which will help them shape the society they are a part of. Push LAB was founded around the idea of promoting creative and informed inclusion of citizens which shape the life of the community. We believe that anyone and everyone can and must do something about the problems they see around them. Our goal is to provoke positive change in society by offering trainings for people who wish to see changes happen. We do this by equipping them with skills needed to enact change. The practical trainings we organize are designed to empower young people to take up a leading role in changing the immediate world around them. We do this by putting them in settings where they are faced with real-life challenges of a community. This way young people learn about themselves, their relationships to others and improve their organizational skills. |
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This will be Petra's fifth summer school, third as a trainer. She spent all of her life (so far!) in Zagreb where she attended the School for Political Science, something she studied because injustice makes her angry (but in a good way). She moved to Budapest for a year where she got her MA in Nationalism Studies and Jewish Studies, and more importantly, found fiends for life, all over the world. When she's not working at her office, the Center for Peace Studies, she's trying to conduct research for her book, a little hipster guide to long forgotten Jewish Zagreb. |
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Tanja Slišković stands as the president of Pushlab organization. She also works at the Economics and Business college in Zagreb as a research assistant. Tanja is equally interested in social sciences and she is a Junior student at the Humanities College studying Sociology. She has extensive experience in volunteering for various community development projects both in Croatia and abroad. Tanja says that participating in this project as a participant changed her paradigm of thought profoundly and that she is proud to organize and contribute to a project that has such a positive and encouraging impact on young people's minds. |
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Ivana Ćosić has been involved with Global PACT since 2003, when she organised the first summer school in Zagreb with a group of enthusiasts. She just finished her MPhil in Leadership in Education at Cambridge University. Ivana believes that we can become better people by learning from one another, and the Global PACT trainings offer a platform where people, who would normally never meet, can learn from one another, exchange ideas and do good. |
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