Reducing obstacles to young people's access to culture

In BiH, there are no policies, programs, projects and initiatives organized or financed by the highest-level authorities that facilitate the access of young people to cultural environments. In relation to other European countries that implement the European Youth Card program, and financial support is provided by competent institutions, BiH has not received financial support for that program from any level of government since 2019. Cultural institutions in BiH, even those on whose foundations cultural heritage is built, are not financially strengthened, and do not receive sufficient financial support for the implementation of activities that would provide quality cultural offerings to young people.

Dissemination information on cultural opportunities

According to the research presented in Voice of youth 2024 presented by UNICEF the majority of youth spend their free time browsing the Internet/Facebook/social networks, with more than 81% using the internet at least once a day. While there are no significant differences between different gender and age groups, the youth with disabilities tend to use internet and social networks less. Youth from rural areas typically spend their free time similarly to the general population, with few differences. Youth from rural areas more often report spending time with the family at least once a day (75%) compared to general population (65%). Furthermore, youth from rural areas more often report performing religious duties at least once a day (41%) compared to general population (30%). However, the youth from rural areas less often spent time in cultural activities (cinemas, theatres, concerts) as 55% have never attended cultural activities, while in general population 43% reported never attending cultural activities.

In BiH, there are no official websites and media that are specialized and focused on informing young people about their opportunities. Information about grants, cultural content and programs is an integral part of the official websites of relevant ministries, public institutions, non-governmental organizations and other organizations such as the Peace Building Network, as well as youth web portals such as mladi.bl, hoću.ba, lonac.pro, fontana.ba, etc. 

Knowledge of cultural heritage amongst young people

There are no policies, programs, projects or initiatives organized or financed by the highest-level government institutions to support the discovery and raising awareness amongst young people about the cultural and artistic heritage of European countries.