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Bosnian Representative Association for Valuable Opportunities (BRAVO)

Bosnian Representative Association for Valuable Opportunities (BRAVO) is Bosnian NGO that in all it's activities follows the main principles of tolerance, democracy, diversity, voluntariness and openness. BRAVO with local communities and partners to implement variety of activities during the year, celebrates traditional dates, but also educates young people and does monitoring. Youth and volunteers are the biggest power of BRAVO and they are the most valuable part of it. They are involved not only in the structure of BRAVO but also are main holders of all activities, persons who take responsibility and take actions.

Main fields/topics: Human Rights, Anti-Trafficking, Reproductive health and STD-s, Sport on daily bases, Audio and Video production, Youth events, Humanitarian actions, National and International projects, Support in fight against Criminal and Corruption, Publishing books, brochures and other publications.

Our main target group is young people (age 13 to 30),but we care for all people who need help and our support. Focus of our organization is on international projects,include sport in our organization, and work on creative actions such as photography, graphics,dance and music through which we promote human rights, fight against hate speech and taking care about European values and principles.

Our vision is: To inspire, encourage, facilitate and promote at all times all forms of humanitarian activities by National Societies,with a view to preventing and alleviating human suffering, and thereby contributing to the maintenance and promotion of human dignity and peace in the world.
Last three years our team members are involved in different kind of projects (national, regional and international) where we were using and where we are using creative activities and actions as tool.Through creative activities we are focused mostly on sport activities, fight against hate speech and human rights. We become so aware about this tool and we made Sector who is caring now for this kind of activities.

We are very happy to be new-comers in Erasmus+ activities as organization, but at the same time, all of our team to be part of the Erasmus generation and to live and feel the real difference that EU has made in our lives. We strongly believe that the EU values has to be transmitted through different activities,mainly focused on young people and empowering them to build the Europe they will live in. BRAVO will be very happy to start it's activities in Erasmus+ working with the experience partners in the consortium and to bring the view of the young people from Western Balkans on their aspirations and motivations for a common European future. As one of the main priorities of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2018, Western Balkans are part of the historical crossroads of intercultural dialogue between East and West,and in this regards, we want to work hard to promote the real educational connectivity in the region. In relation with the current project proposal,the team of BRAVO has implemented most of the creative campaigns in BIH in the last years and will be happy to share their experience. BRAVO, as one of the organization who is created from different ideas,always tends to improve quality of life of all people. In all our programs we are in direct connection with work on peace building,inclusion of minority youth, LGBTQI population, refugees from conflict areas, promotion of tolerance and fight against stereotypes and prejudices, as well as fight against hate speech.

Educating youth we try to raise their awareness about peace, tolerance, vulnerable groups and the meaning of informal learning. We are proud of the project which we implemented in our organization in the fight against human trafficking, Reproductive health and STD-s. From the beginning we encourage youth of BRAVO to attend all kind of workshops and we train them to teach other of values that are base of our societies. With this application and project we could extend our reach with youth. Education in this area very important for the Youth people in BIH especially after 4-years conflict in our country. Our organization has different kind of sectors where we puts SPORT as one important thing for volunteers and healthy lifestyle of volunteers and people from our society. BRAVO puts social impact of organization that aims to promote a lifelong enjoyment of sports, while emphasizing a positive consumer experience and instilling the core values of discipline, teamwork, safety, respect and integrity. BRAVO is in an effort to bring together volunteers who share interest in photography, IT and video production as a profession or a hobby and to enrich our learning experience by sharing our ideas, needs, and creativity and therefore enhancing our overall educational experience at the Erasmus+. BRAVO is here to offer volunteers the opportunity to work, create and expand their knowledge of photography outside of the working room and office.