This year’s edition of the Maglaj Spirit Weekend festival is open to the preparation exhibition. Attention. Our Europe, which shows the most inspiring photos of young talents from all over the Western Balkans. The exhibition was realized as the final part of the regional photo competition in which almost 200 applications received. The competition was launched within the same name for the campaign conducted by the Webalkans – the initiative of the Directorate-General of the European Enlargement and Eastern Neighborhood (DG Enest). Photos of young authors show how sports goes beyond boundaries and connects people.
“We are especially glad that our city has the opportunity to host a significant event that opens the doors to the exchange of knowledge and international cooperation,” said Faris Habibović, the Assistant Chief of Municipality of the Festival Exhibition, preparation. Attention. Our Europe was previously organized in European houses in Belgrade, Podgorica, Skopje and Tirana. Maglaj is a station in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“I would like to welcome the representatives of Maglaj, our webalkans team partners and the local Youth Association” Dictum Factum “, whose commitment enabled the implementation of this event with our project” we can better “. The exhibition we open is part of the European Union’s regional initiative called Webalkans, and displays 18 selected out of 180 arrangements. The European Union strongly supports youth initiatives throughout the region and in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Young people are the future, and I would also like to announce the summer Academy of the “State of Peace”, which will take place in August 50 youth, “said Adebayo Babajida, Deputy Chief of the Delegation of the European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Stanislava Marojević, a representative of the Webalkans team, and the young European Ambassador, Han Kunić, who spoke about the campaign, also addressed the audit. The strength of the sport in connecting young people and strengthening mutual trust also spoke athletes of Emir Delić, Handball Team Course BiH, and Ema Suljaković, member of the local volleyball club.
Young European ambassadors from Serbia, Montenegro, northern Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina have also gathered to talk to the exhibition visitors prepares our Europe. After the exhibition, the Festival Program of the Maglaj Spirit Weekend continued, which was opened by the projection of the film Blum – the lords of their future directed by Jasmile Žbanić.
The festival gives more than a cultural offer – nurtures empathy, intergenerational communication and social inclusion. Films, exhibitions and conversations are focused on confronting the past, understanding the feeling of community and encouraging dialogue as a brave and necessary but also fun act in the spirit of all generations.
“Gathering on the Gradina, the new contents we have designed for the festival, and by connecting Maglaj, Doboj and Žepča, the whole region I really can do it. You are all here to do this. It is huge responsibility, but also the honor to serve this audience – Maglajska, “said young European ambassador Adi Softić, also president of the Youth Association” Dictum Factum “.
Maglaj Spirit Weekend is also supported through the project & quot; we can better & quot; funded by the European Union’s foreign policy instruments within the Neighborhood, Development and International Cooperation, and together they are implementing the European Union, the United Nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Council of Europe – Office
