Partners

In the year 2000 the youth association ON&OFF was created in Logroño as a non-profit organisation to join together all the ex-students and current students of a local theater school: Teatro Dinámica. The main aim of ON&OFF is to promote cultural and artistic initiatives, with a lack of political, religious or favourable intentions, and always trying to create an intercultural framework for the participation, understanding and inclusion of all its members, the society of Logroño and the youth in general. According to this the main aims of the organisation are: To join together those young people interested on the theater and drama using learning groups, experimentation and staging; To organize cultural and leisure time activities for youth; To take part on participative events such as meetings, exchanges, contests, etc. at local, national or international level; To cooperate with local entities and administrations on the implementation of theater spectacles at local, national or international level; To carry out training courses, workshops and activities for educating children, youth and adults (intergenerational projects); other ones related to the promotion of the participation of children and youth on the theatre and training field. Furthermore, the non-formal and drama methodologies used regularly by the entity, make all its acitivities accesible and suitable for any kind of users, promoting the participation of young people with fewer opportunities and especially of those with mobility, expression and/or communication difficulties.

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Youth Empowerment Center is an informal group of young people active in Youthwork who has participated in various international and local activities based on non-formal, formal and informal education. Our group involves 3 founding and experienced youngsters who are ready to develop high quality activities for social change, equality, tolerance and creativity, together with the help of another 9 youngsters who share the same beliefs and willing to provide their knowledge on non-formal education workshops. Our goal is to create space and opportunities for every young person to express and develop themselves according to their needs.

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United Societies of Balkans (U.S.B.) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation based in Thessaloniki, Greece working in the field of youth, human rights and intercultural dialogue. It was founded in 2008 by the inception of a group of active young people who wanted to address the social issues which affect the youngsters in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. The vision and aim of the organisation is the promotion of youth empowerment, participation in the economic and political life, youth mobility, voluntarism and human rights.

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Oriel was founded in 2017 and its main office is in the province of Verona, Italy. Despite the fact the association is quite young, the founders and the key staff have several years of experience in the youth work field. The mission of the association is to promote the active participation of young people in their local communities and to give them the chance and the tools to exploit fully their potential and to provide them a support in discovering their path and to develop their skills, by using non-formal education and intercultural learning methods. To pursue these goals Oriel organizes cultural events, seminars, workshops and study sessions to promote mostly creativity, entrepreneurship, youth employment, volunteering, youth democratic participation but also about several different topics according to need and situations. During the events of Oriel, youth are encouraged to share experiences and ideas and the youth workers act in order to foster social integration, active youth participation and to transmit the necessary and requested information for the youth to develop their ideas and to fulfill their learning needs.

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Crooked House has organized youth exchanges since 2003, Youth Initiatives since 2004, and Erasmus+ Training Programmes since 2014. We have hosted many exchanges, festivals and seminars, based in Newbridge. We have sent members of our youth project on a number of youth exchanges and encounters over the years. At this stage, we are aware and can be prepared for most practical issues that arise in both hosting and sending young people on international projects. We have a detailed Child Protection Policy, and our leaders are trained in all relevant skills. We continue to learn, particularly about new methods of working with young people, and also about structuring longer projects. We have built a wide but focused network of partners in Europe, most of whom work with young people in creative contexts (like theatre, or music). Our exchanges and festivalls strenghten this network each year, and we like to add at least two new organisations to the network every year. We work outide of Erasmus+ as well, taking part in training opportunities offered by the network; and giving training in specialised arteas of youth work to our network organisations. The network is informal, but we would like to explore ways to make it more structured. We have pioneered in Ireland the use of theatre of the oppressed methods of groupwork in the field of Youth & Community Work, using both artists and youth workers to develop projects with young people. We specialise in theatre work about gender, power, social justice issues, and mental health. All of our projects try to find innovative and creative ways to explore these issues. Our philosophical positions are influenced by the work of theorists like Paulo Freire, Augusto Boal, Germaine Greer, Pierre Bourdieu, and second-wave feminism. Our aesthetic view is shaped by the work of William Shakespeare.

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Young Improvers for Youth Development is a NGO founded in the spring of 2015 out of passion for non-formal education and active involvement of young people in the community.
We are group of young people who are always ready to learn something and share it. Although we have known each other for years, each of us studies at a different university of Bulgaria. We are aware of our social responsibility as youth and we are willing to be more active and dynamic and use our potential in a good and useful way. As one of the group’s aims, we want to reach more youngsters and give them the opportunity to travel, meet people from other countries and learn through participation and cooperation. By doing this, we believe that not only those youngsters will have a chance to extend their horizon but also they will be able to come together with young people from other countries, share their, ideas, cultures, traditions… etc. with each other. We aim at acquiring new skills and using them for young people around us to make them realize the power, energy and potential they have. Participation of young people, Community development, Human Rights, Intercultural dialogue and Volunteering are some of the topic we are focused on.

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