Project desciption

We are 4 students from the KaosPilot School ( Private university for entrepreneur of social innovation, creative business design and project/process management) located in Århus, Denmark.
We are going to have our project management exam in the month of May. We have chosen to put our focus on the youth in Bosnia and their identity.

We will arrive 2. of May and depature to Denmark again the 28. of May. We will have our base in Mostar but will work in other regions of Bosnia as well.

We wish with this project to let the youth focus on hopes and dreams in serious future perspectives. We want them to build on what they are good at, increase their motivation and engage them to take choices and ownership in there own lives, that will benefit them a lot later on.
Otherwise we want together with the youth to research on educational needs and youth related culture.

We want to put the focus on future perspectives and not look at the past.
Bosnia is in Scandinavia often related with the war, even though it ended more than 10 years ago.
We want to change the picture and make Scandinavia and hopefully the rest of Europe combine Bosnia with development and growth instead of war and destruction.

We will work with a groupe of 60 youngsters from UWC high schools in Mostar. Through photos and interviews from their daily life, education and interests they will give their country and Scandinavia a picture of, who they are and what Bosnia is right now.

The project contains several parts.
It is going to start with a preparation workshop, where youth with different cultural and religious background will meet. Here we will facilitate a process that will lead to the headlines for the end product, interviews of youngsters in Mostar and a photo exhibition based on the results. The reason why we use this approach is that, only the youth in Bosnia know what is important for them. We from Scandinavia will set the frames that are needed, for the end product to be as profound as possible.
There will be certain frames, such as that the workshop will be about the future, hope, education and work possibilities and the identity of the youth.
After the preparation workshop some of the youths will be equipped with a camera and through interviews and pictures they will describe the headlines from the workshop and also new headlines that the interview creates.

An hopefully we will be able to raise economical founding to bring some of the youngsters with us on the trip, and let them work as photo-rapporters of other areas in bosnia still within the topic Youth & Identity
The project ends with an exhibition of the pictures the Bosnian youth has taken. In Denmark we have a lot of agreements settled already for exhibitions. In Bosnia we would like to have it in different youth houses and public places, we are working with the democracy office on making it on the bridge in Mostar.

We are in cooporation with Vejle Municipality, Denmark, who is making a rapport for the Foreign Ministry of Denmark and the democracy office in Mostar on education in Mostar and Jablanica.

Apart from the 4 of us from the KaosPilot we will have a professional photographer with us that will document the entire project and will be at help when it comes to technical challenges, give the young people a crash course in photography and interview techniques and help with the exhibition.