Formal Information:

• Non-Governmental Association "Focus Group" completed registration on April 12, 2002 (certificate of registration 05/0318).

Our Mission:

• Education as a creative process for active and young people.

Primary Aims:

• provide advisory service for teachers to fully employ their academic potentials
• support members' creative initiatives
• advise young people on the issues of adaptation and socialization;
• Research, develop and implement innovative methods on education and development;

Target groups:

• socially active teenagers;
• young people of marginal social status;
• representatives of youth organizations;
• students specializing in social pedagogy;
• young teachers & trainers

Nature of the work:

• the work has socially related and educational bias with education being dominant policy for the following categories of people: socially active teenagers, students specializing in social pedagogy, young teachers and representatives of youth organizations ;

The methods of the work:

• short seminars for young people;
• open corporate educational meetings;
• web-resource of the organization;
• social actions;
• dissimenation seminars;

Methods of work with the registered members:

• open educational seminars, invitation of the experts in the corresponding fields;
• tuition scheme of the work to upgrade skills and knowlege of the registered members;
• giving access to the resources of the organization;
• informing the members on the possibilities to take part in external seminars, reporting on the results of the seminars;
• arranging entertainment events for the members - holidays, going to the theatre;

Establishing of external contacts:

• join associations and networks of NGOs;
• develop web-resource, expand and promote;
• seek new partners through Internet and other means, develop partnership projects;
• develop strategy to promote the organization;
• get access to student target group by establishing stable contacts with Universities;

Decision making procedures:

• working meetings on a regular basis;
• autonomy in taking tactical decisions within the framework of the specific activity;
• informational transparency of activities, accessibility of information;
• Action plan, developed with the assistance of the curator, presented during working meeting before its implementation ;

Quality assurance schedule

• comparison of own achievements with those of partners and competitors;
• inviting experts to the events in order to judge and record the quality of the program;;
• reporting on the actions held;