Socrates Cafe at the Department of Cultural Studies with the theme: Youth and politics - can young people change the world?

The Department of Cultural Studies in Zenica continued its successful cooperation with partners from the TPO Foundation from Sarajevo this year. Students of all years of study participated in the first Sokratov cafes conceived as a space for free exchange of opinions on topics that directly concern young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Respecting the recommendations on working conditions in the conditions of the pandemic caused by the covid-19 virus, Socrates' cafes are organized online through the Google classroom platform.

The topic of the first Socrates cafes was "Youth and politics - can young people change the world", and the facilitator of the interesting discussion was Assoc. Ph.D. Mirza Džananović. The occasion for this topic was the past elections in the United States of America, but also the upcoming local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the participation of young people is noticeable.

The participants tried to answer the question why young people today are too passive, especially the student population, which in the past was the bearer of enlightened and humanistic values and the initiator of social changes. They discussed the interest of young people in problems in their communities, and the extent to which young people are willing to volunteer in the work of local communities, student associations, and various cultural and social organizations. The question arose whether young people can contribute to changing the current situation in society by acting in political organizations. The open and dynamic discussion ended with the question: do young people in the current state of our society have the right to be passive.

A new session of the Socrates Coffee at the Department of Cultural Studies will be held next Wednesday at the same time, but with a new topic and a new facilitator. We are sure that the new session will be attended by an even larger number of students and that the discussion will be even more interesting and fruitful.