United Societies of Balkans (U.S.B.)

General information

United Societies of Balkans (U.S.B.) is a non profit and non governmental, youth organization based in Thessaloniki, Greece working in the field of youth mobility and facilitating youth awareness about social issues. It was founded by the inception of a group of active people in order to address the social issues which affect the Balkan and Eastern European region. It envisions a global and inclusive society, where citizens are equally empowered to contribute in the shaping of a world with less prejudice, discrimination and other forms of injustice.

United Societies of Balkans since 2008 has implemented many local and international activities, based on formal and non-formal education, by trying to underline the important role of experiential learning and non-formal education and to include tools and methods of the non-formal education to mainstream education.

USB has implemented more than 40 youth local and international projects on different topics, such as discrimination, human rights, ecology, media, intercultural dialogue, etc. It has sent around 2,000 youngsters abroad to youth mobility projects and hosted more than 2,600 in youth projects organized by USB.

In the field of EVS, USB has hosted 120 volunteers in projects of 10 months and has sent 25 volunteers abroad. The main tasks of the hosting project, are the run of a web radio, web-tv (www.balkanhotspot.gr) and e-magazine (balkan beats).

More information about the experience of the organization and the projects that has realized in the past can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2nYnBqqhri9V2hNZzAzd2ZtU0E/view?usp=sharing