Tanja Herceg
Tanja Herceg
Youth Ambassadors and Youth Participation Director
The Governing Board member responsible for Youth Ambassadors and youth participation ensures the successful piloting and development of the ERYICA Youth Ambassadors Commission and the overall participation of youth ambassadors in ERYICA. She supports the Secretariat with the organisation of the framework.
Organisation
ZICM
Country
Croatia
Tanja Herceg is a distinguished psychologist with a Master's from the University of Zagreb's Psychology Department and a Ph.D. student.
She has dedicated over 15 years of her career to youth development, social innovation, and education in Croatia. She is the founder and ongoing President of the Association for the Promotion of Positive Affirmation of Youth in Society, “Impress”, since 2008.
She also served as the President of the Zajednica Informativnih Centara za Mlade u Hrvatskoj (Association of Info Youth Centers of Croatia) from 2021 to 2023.
She has notably served as the President of the Advisory Board of the Government of the Republic of Croatia on youth issues, was the first UN Youth Delegate of Croatia, and represented Croatia at the 2019 UN Youth Climate Summit in New York and the 2020 CONUN in Bruxelless organized by the Council of Europe.
Additionally, she was a member of the Steering Committee for the EU Youth Dialogue during the Romanian-Croatian-Finland Presidency of the Council of Europe from 2019 to 2020.
