ITALY
Associazione Agrado is a local youth organization which manages projects, activities and actions in order to promote personal development, mobility ad Interculturality. It has been working since 14 years with youngsters and community- on non formal education- and deeply believes in the positive contact between local and European dimension.
Local level: It manages the local Youth Centre, develops project about personal development (Life skills education in school), organizes national camps, workshops and Training Courses and creative/artistic projects and events. It supports youth creativity and entrepneurship organizing music events and festivals with other organizations.
International level: It organizes Youth Exchanges, Seminars, Training Courses and Actions within the frame of Youth in Action Programme/ Erasmus+. It worked on LLP Programme (Grundtvig) with adults too.
It follows the guidelines coming from Europe and also from Region, on youth and job, on opportunities for trainings and on other measures to prevent youth unemployment and to give youngsters opportunity to test their competences.
It works on EVS projects having accreditation as Sending and Coordinating Organization for EVS projects (2013-IT-66).
PORTUGAL
Check-IN – Cooperation and Development is a non-profit organization, and works in close cooperation with public and private entities, actively participating in everyday quality improvement activities. Check-IN was created in 9 of April 2010.
In order to achieve its aims, the association organises activities at local, national and international level, including national and international workshops, seminars, activity buildings and training courses (some of them within the Youth in Action Programme) as well as volunteering activities (ex: european voluntary service, national volunteering), international trainships (ex: Leonardo da Vinci), etc.
Our success lies in the quality and professionalism of our Staff, which are a group of dynamic and motivated people, with exceptional organizational and customer service skills.
CYPRUS
Our NGO (Non Government Organisation), Politistiko Ergastiri Agion Omologiton, has 10 years of experience in youth work within our local neighborhood working with dance, theater and music. Its activities vary from local to international with an emphasis on the involvement of youths an younger children in cultural activities, mostly involved in the local neighborhood.
Our neighborhood, and historical neighborhood dated since archaic – roman period a burial site in ancient times, one of the oldest settlement outside the wall of Lefkosia, has lately been reviving after a long period of decay. New families are moving in restored houses considered as national heritage architecture. The neighborhood consists of habitats from different tolerance an d participation.
Our organisation is actively collaborating with the local primary school, high school and the local church committee. This involvement includes co-organizing events or even responding to proposed activities.
SPAIN
OMIX Ribadavia has been established to support young people from our town within the framework of non formal education. Together with European volunteers we are creating a platform for young people to help them to reach their goals. We are working with and for the youth. We encourage their involvement by facilitating innovative free time activities, stimulating their creativity, developing different skills and sharing information. We support youngsters to organize diverse activities, participate in international events, and becoming active European citizens. We intent to give all young people from our town the possibility to increase their self awareness, to use and develop their capacities, and to actively participate in the construction of a united Europe to create one Eureopean platform for informal coorperation. OMIX Ribadavia is a member of the Galician Youth Information and Documentation Network.
AUSTRIA
The “Kinderfreunde“ organization was founded in 1908 to provide children and young people with community, education and fun. The general well-being, their interests and needs are the most important tasks in our work – now as well as then.
“Kinderfreunde” are a non-profit association. In the upper Austrian region called “Mühlviertel”, our organization is supported by a regional office in St.Georgen/Gusen, so that way we can provide our services were they are needed.
Our regional office and voluntary board support our hundreds of volunteers all over the region and are responsible for the “Eltern-Kind-Zentren”, our professional family meeting points.
The heart of “Kinderfreunde” is the voluntary work in more than 40 local groups all over the Mühlviertel.
Local groups: Excursions, group sessions, carnival parties, creative workshops, flea markets, seminars: The local groups work with children and young people directly in their home town.
Group sessions: In our children- and youth group sessions we play, laugh and talk together. With us, children from 3 years on, have fun without pressure or being pushed. Values like Solidarity and community are learned by the children, while having fun.
Social policy: We “Kinderfreunde” get into the act. We have one goal: A child and youth friendly society!
Integration: We strongly believe in the idea of a multicultural society. Everyone should be treated equally. We try to get in contact with migrants and bring the cultures together. Especially children should have the chance to experience and learn that working and living together in peace benefits all of our lives. Enabling equal chances to all people is another goal in the topic of integration.
European network
Kinderfreunde Mühlviertel is a member of EBZ (European centers of Education) and IFM (International Falcon Movement). Since more than 10 years we organize European youth-meetings and international seminars.
ROMANIA
Support 4 Youth Development is an Association entirely dedicated to the development of youth. Its mission is to stimulate and sustain young people’s active, civic and responsible participation to the educational, social, cultural and economic environment of the communities they live in.
Support 4 Youth Development concentrates its efforts on activities with clear objectives, such as the development, support and reinforcement of the counseling, informing and forming processes of the target generation, in a European context. These objectives will be met by means of creating the favorable environment in the communities of these young people for the enhancement of their personal and professional performance. Furthermore, their needs will constantly be identified and fulfilled through a large array of sustainable activities.
For its well-functioning, this association relies on the principles of responsible volunteering, self-motivation and self-determination, active civic participation, taking initiative, involvement and cooperation, adaptability, continuity, competence, competitiveness, friendship, mutual respect and support, democracy, transparency, equity, legality, durability, social dialogue, tolerance, versatility and non-discrimination.
At international level, since its establishment the Support 4 Youth Development Association is a member of the United Youth Development Organization, which has hundreds of members from 35 countries, and fights against global poverty, inequality and injustice affecting the young generation. Also, it is a member of IDA (International Development Alliance).
SLOVENIA
In our organisation we are around 70 members. We are an association for youth and culture, therefore all members are young and enthusiast people who act mainly for the interests of young people. Our biggest project at the moment is the organisation of the street festival “Ptuj – odprto mesto”, where we present various activities on the streets of the town Ptuj (street theatres, shows, animation, performances). We organise also workshops for street animation and seminars for youth and youth workers to promote activities for youth inclusion and participation on national and international level, empowering youth and environmental campaign in Slovenia, Europe and globally. During the year are organized creative workshops to develop personal capacity of youth. We are also busy with youth work and youth policy development in Slovenia and we cooperate with various NGO´s from Slovenia and the EU.
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