Initially, the core of this organization was created in the spring 1998, by the group of enthusiastic teachers from several vocational schools in Macedonia . This group was enlarging especially with y outh participants, and as the time passed by and in the early spring 2000 it was registered as Civic Association "International Education and Resource Network – Macedonia" - iEARN Macedonia (or IMOR) (This name originates from International Education and Resource Network - iEARN
( www.iearn.org ). . This association is non-profit, non-governmental, non-religious, and non-political organization. It is one of the 100 member organizations of global iEARN network around the world.

Open Society Institute - Macedonia during 1998, 1999 and 2000 supported this initiative. The idea of founding this association was to encircle the whole set of activities that were already done and to put this initiative into legal frame, in order to empower youth and teachers to fundraise and to work on global citizenship.

IEARN Macedonia, have President of the Association (Programme Co-ordinator for Macedonia ), Board of the Association (7 members including youth), Assembly of the Association. In each city/town where iEARN Macedonia has members, there are responsible educators and students for the city/town, and for separate iEARN Macedonia member institutions there are again responsible educator and student. There are iEARN Macedonia members responsible for development, newsflash, programmatic support, training, and youth.

iEARN Macedonia have 2 mailing list services. One is for teachers, educators, and adults - iearn_mak@freemail.org.mk , and the other one is for youth- iearn_mak_mladi@freemail.org.mk . These services are used for faster and more efficient communication and discussion among iEARN Macedonia members, and project work.

The vision of iEARN Macedonia association is to empower and prepare youth for successful life in dynamic contemporary society via their involvement in project based learning and teamwork by the use of ICT in regular communication with the remote and local peers. Acting this way youth is open to intercultural learning and awareness rising. Emerging young leaders are identified, motivated and encouraged to gain, acquaint, and learn in the spirit of cosmopolitism.

First aspect is to promote youth as a "driving wheel" of the progress, the biggest treasure of the community and the biggest challenge for the society.

Second aspect is to empower youth, so youth can take and make meaningful difference in their lives, community, and internationally for the benefit of the mankind. They can think locally, but they are acting globally. They should be and are ambassadors and in the same time construction workers that are building bridges across digital divide.

Predominantly, activities are student based and student centred, structured on-line collaborative projects/activities. Projects are proposed by students and teachers jointly and are put together in one booklet – Project Description Booklet. Students are working on their contributions and submit them to the forums, or directly to the co-ordinating person. Projects can be national, regional, and international. Also project can be divided into action taking, community service, environmental, scientific, civic education, artistic, interdisciplinary, etc.

There are a lot of gatherings (again national, regional, and international once) when students and teachers are meeting each other in person. There are a lot of camps, youth summits, and conferences where Macedonian students and teachers were presenting their achievements. They might know each other for a long time but on-line, not in person. That is the biggest reward for hard working youth.

We are engaging a lot of energy in establishing good collaboration with the governmental institutions. At this point we are starting to cooperate with the Presidential Cabinet; we are negotiating our cooperation with the Ministry of Environment; we had established some cooperation and have approval from the Bureau for Education Development of Macedonia.

We have strong links with the rest of the global iEARN network. We are exchanging ideas, comments, suggestion, contributions on a daily basis, we are sharing the same attitudes towards our life and future, we are sharing the same technology, the same iEARN publications and the same forums/newsgroups.