10 years MKC Bitola Celebration with debates on the name and Corridor 8 The Youth Cultural Center – Bitola (MKC) was founded in 1997 under the name Youth Cultural Association (MKA). In the beginning it was an informal group of young enthusiasts – intellectuals, freelance artists, musicians, actors… The people from Bitola remember the cultural events (poetry nights, concerts, alternative theatre shows and exhibitions) organized by MKA, significantly enriching the town’s cultural offer. In September 1999 MKA was registered as a citizens’ association and in May 2002, after the organizational reconstruction, it continued working as Youth Cultural Center – Bitola. MKS carries out its activities through several programs: Culture and Art; Voluntary Service; Education; and Civil Society and Democracy Development. In the past ten years MKC has implemented a number of festivals, exhibitions, concerts, theatre performances, publishing projects, campaigns, project management trainings, team building and leadership, negotiating skills, representation, human rights, theatre school, computer skills, oratory…MKC is also a Macedonian national voluntary service. MKC marked its jubilee in the period between 20-25 December 2007 with lots of activities. A public debate was held on topic “Whether swap – name for NATO?”, where Prof D-r Ljubomir Frckovski discussed. At the Technical Faculty in Bitola an academic forum was held for the project Corridor 8 and it was discussed from a traffic, ecological, energy and economic aspect, as well as about the opportunities for economic, political, cultural and other kind of cooperation and its turning into a linking bridge of South East Europe cultures. Non-governmental activists, professors and students from the Technical Faculty from Bitola and the Faculty of Economy from Prilep took part at the forum. In the MKC premises a photo exhibition was opened from Corridor 8.