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4YOUth is an informal group of young people, students and graduates of diverse faculties (political sciences, sociology, philosophy, film, cultural and European studies etc.), living in a small town Milanówek in the suburbs of Warsaw. Since the beginning of 2011, 4YOUth collaborates with other youth organizations and local cultural centres, implementing projects on a variety of topics. By running various cultural activities and events (public debates, cinema forums, concerts, workshops, integrating/intercultural meetings, picnics) we promote active participation of youth in local social and public life. At the same time we extend our cooperation outside the local level, taking part in Youth in Action Programme and carrying out projects together with other groups of young people and organizations from abroad, with the objective of creating an international network for supporting youth initiatives in Europe and all over the world. Among our members there are former councilors of Milanówek’s Youth Town Council (which ceased to exist several years ago and until today no other form of youth representation has yet been established) as well as other social activists who, by bringing international atmosphere in their hometown, want to change their local environment for a more friendly, interesting and tolerant one – full of youth initiatives and devoid of prejudices. By gaining diverse experience in the world of volunteering, participating in a number of international youth projects and sustaining cooperation between the young inhabitants of Milanówek, the local cultural centre and the local government, 4YOUth members prepare themselves for running a foundation. Thus 4YOUth foundation, in a formalized way, will continue supporting youth civic initiatives in their hometown and consolidate international network of cooperation with other non-profit NGOs. With an aim of activating young people and increasing their participation in decision making processes, both on local and European level, 4YOUth involves in their initiatives everyone, not excluding the youth with special needs. We believe that our activity, at least on small scale, will contribute to fighting youth unemployment as well as raise a sense of unity and global responsibility among young people.
SPAIN – European Crossroads AssociationThe main aim of European Crossroads is to find opportunities and places to share experiences and knowledge with people from all countries and cultures.
We promote interculturalism, tolerance, youth mobility, intercultural dialogue, team working and exchange of ideas.
We offer also a youth service in the municipality where young people can come to ask their questions about how to do volunteering, how to do EVS (we are sending, hosting and coordinating organization), how to work / study abroad and so on.
We promote interculturalism, tolerance, youth mobility, intercultural dialogue, team working and exchange of ideas.
We offer also a youth service in the municipality where young people can come to ask their questions about how to do volunteering, how to do EVS (we are sending, hosting and coordinating organization), how to work / study abroad and so on.
GREECE – “PRAXIS” Association“PRAXIS” which is a cultural organisation aims at bringing the youth closer to the new developments in arts and communication. PRAXIS offers opportunities and cultural activities to young people…. Media and communication is one of its main activities.
These will be promoted mainly by means of the radio and the creation of a newspaper.
“PRAXIS” activities concentrate upon culture, media and environment. It also owns a non-profit making programme at the radio station and its broadcasts raise several issues that concern young people
“ PRAXIS” also publishes the magazine “MEDIART”, volunteers write articles, comments, opinions etc, and plan the layout.
The volunteers create the “Mediart” magazine, and make broadcasts in the “free youth expression zone” of radio-station “Rodon FM” and create radio-spots.
“PRAXIS” organises series of cultural happenings and events having to do with society, video, excursions, books-presentation, campaigns for social, ecological or athletic issues creating posters, social messages, and acts as a recognised sending and host structure under the E.V.S
Furthermore the volunteers support the Youth Information Centre, where they help to inform young people about the opportunities of voluntary service and other EU-project.
http://praxisgreece.com/
ROMANIA – Do Great Things AssociationDo Great Things Association is a non-governmental organisation which officialy started it’s activity in March 2011. The base activity and the main reason why we started this is an idea that is a couple of years old. This idea was born from the will and passion to take attitude and change something, first of all, in the community of each of our members and afterwards at a national and european level.
Also, at the base of D.G.T.’s coming to life, stays the wish of the founding members to give back all the beautiful things that they learned and experienced in the period of the previous years of volunteering. The name, „ D.G.T. „ represents the acronym from: „Do Great Things” and the motto is: „Do Great Things and leave your mark…”.
The mission of D.G.T. Association is centered on the creation and setting-up of a national and international network of youngsters, students, trainers and teachers of various nationalities and backgrounds.
This network tackles topics like getting to know other cultures and cultural exchange, non-formal education, ecology and climate change, sustainable development, european citizenship and, not the least, geopolitics.
Among all of these we add facilitation of the youngsters to accumulate, through voluntary activities, the necessary experience to efficiently adapt to the labour market, and also by offering the possibility to students to practice the theory learned in university.
Our members are young, dynamic, ambitious and they come from different academical environments, such as, for example The Academy of Economic Studies – Bucharest (the largest economics university from the South-East Europe), Polytechnic University – Bucharest, Bucharest University, Technical University – Cluj Napoca, National School of Political and Administrative Studies – Bucharest.
We have a vast experience regarding international projects like Youth in Action Programme, Action 1.1. Youth Exchange, Action 3.1.a, Action 3.1.b and Action 4.3., and we are also involved in local projects.
D.G.T. works, for now, as a one united block, in the way that all the members contribute at the realization of the project in the making. In the future, once we will increase our number of members and projects, we are planning to create coordinated departments, each of them having their own projects: Human Resources, Communication, International Relations, Local Projects.
Through it’s projects and activities, the organisation facilitates for it’s members, the development, after the university studies, of the interpersonal and communication competences that are essential on the labour market. More than that, D.G.
T. assures a good preparation and practice in various areas of management and other fields related to it. For now, the youth exchanges and trainings are our primordial preoccupation because through these projects we can send in the best way our own message and we can learn lots of important things for ourselves, for the „elders” of the organisation and for the others.
D.G.T. Association, together with other 13 organisations, participated at the national project „A Different Kind of Education”, financed by the E.U.’s Youth in Action Programme – Action 5.1., which started in the month of September 2011 and now we’re preparing for the „ A Different Kind of Education 2 ”, that will start in September this year, again as partners.
Because we want all the time to have great quality approved projects, the president of the association took part in many „writing YiA projects” trainings. In this way he learned the writing and the format (from the view of the organiser) of this type of projects and passed the know-how to the rest of the members. Besides this, our volunteers, along with the founding members that have quite a lot experience in this kind of this projects, got actively involved in the making of this project so this is very important for them and also for us.
In this manner, this active team, through hard work laid-down for making this project, took the oath for a long activity that will lead to an impeccable finalisation of the project.
http://www.asociatiadgt.ro/