Partners

 Coordinator organization: EU 'n' U Mobility- Greece

Our group was established by university students and young professionals from Thessaloniki and Athens in order to provide mobility opportunities to young people that come from marginalized societal groups and rural areas with fewer opportunities, and to introduce non- formal education into the lives of the next generation of European citizens. According to our status and individual skill sets, we are a non-commercial organization which can provide educational services in multiple topics, such as social inclusion and intercultural exchange, digital competencies and professional skills, social entrepreneurship and sustainable innovation, well-being and mental health. We are trying to attract young talent to create and implement youth projects, aimed at development of multicultural communications, cultural diversity, interreligious dialogue and tolerance in today’s society. The mission of our group is to provide non-formal education opportunities to the least priviledged members of society, and help foster a more tolerant, open-minded and creative

next generation.

Objectives of the organization:

􀀀 To facilitate young people in achieving their creative potential

􀀀 To foster intercultural communication and social inclusion

􀀀 To enhance digital competencies of participants

􀀀 To support youth initiatives in various fields, adjacent to the core competencies of our group

􀀀 To create conditions for active involvement of young people into social, economic and cultural life 

􀀀 To promote the

notions of well-being, sustainability and social entrepreneurship

􀀀 Popularization of democratic ideas, institutions of a civil society

􀀀 To develop respect for public, liberal, democratic and European values

􀀀 To develop the international youth cooperation, to cooperate with foreign youth organizations

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS:

1.Simas Education,Culture and Sport Association was newly established association in order to contribute to the social, cultural and economic development of the civil society, we organise educational, cultural, sportive and social projects at

national and international level for all segments of the society, especially disabled and disadvantaged.

We are organising following activities:

* Women’s right education: We are organising workshops with women and other part of society to inform them about their

rights, how to organise campaign and creation of political papers.

* Music activities: We are organising musical workshops with disadvantaged including youngsters, disabled and migrants to improve their musical skills and skills on human rights, cultural differences and intercultural dialogue.

* Technology

- Improvement digital skills of teachers and youth workers: We are providing training about technology planning model,

technology integration model and digital tools that can be integrated into learning process eg. Web 2.0 tools, design of multimedia, educational videos, augmented/virtual reality environment, gamification and as well as training about design of blended learning, flipped learning, educational games and gamification

- Improvement digital skills of youngsters, elders and disadvantaged: We are providing training about media literacy, digital literacy and visual literacy, coding skills including MIT App inventor, Scratch, Pyhton, digital citizenship, cyber bullying. -

Design of e-learning platform: we desing e-learning platform for distance, blended and flipped learning with our distance education designer and educational technologists.

* Sport activities

To let our community members to refresh their bodies and minds as well as increasing their participation in physical activities and social inclusion , we organise recreational, leisure and sport activities for members of our target group.

*Environmental Activities:

To raise awareness of target group about environmental sustainability and change their life in sustainable way we organise beach cleaning activities, waste management trainings, compost creation activities, environmental sport activities like orienteering for environment, craft making from plactics

2.Blue 11 is an informal youth group based in Vrnjačka Banja with members that come from different regions of Serbia. As young people with different life backgrounds, we came together under the idea of being proactive, useful, culturally and politically active individuals of our society. We are aware of the importance of youth activism, both for society as a whole and

for individual development. Our mission is to create and expand the network of young people and work together with united knowledge, enthusiasm and strength on non-formal education, peer to peer learning, raising social awareness of basic, but also burning / delicate phenomena of contemporary society. Our vision is oriented towards near future due to which we feel

a responsibility to make a change and contribute to the networking of young people across Europe - in creating a generation that will enlighten its society. Following the bottom-up methodology, we intend to create activities with which we will fight against various prejudices, discrimination and, finally, the socio-political impotence of the youth. We will advocate for the propagation of a culture of multi / inter / transculturalism in communication, intergenerational dialogue, fostering enterprenurial attitude, boosting the creativity, environmental awearness and responsibility, cherishing the democracy and tolerance. This way, our ultimate goal is a certain change in perspective from notion of being "different" to richness of being "diverse". Our mission and vision are reflected through our main objectives:

- To provide youngsters the opportunities for social and cultural development (with the emphasis on the young people with fewer opportunities)

- To boost youngsters’s communication skills and feel of easment of mobility

- To be a part of the future as enlightened and hardworking youth

- Educating ourselves and the youth with the goal of understanding "differences" as "diversities"

- To have an international social network

- To be defenders of human rights

3.Erasmus Free Minds of Royan is a new established informal group of youngsters to make its local works international. It provides local music courses and jam session as well as informal activities about women rights, human rights, racism, discrimination, digital marketing, video-making, social media and plant-raising. 

Erasmus Free Minds of Royan consisting from motivated and experienced young people in Erasmus+ who aims to spread the knowledge across the society in France and Europe.The group has been formed from motivated and students of Universite Bordeaux in Francewho wants to make positive changes. The vision of the group is producing solutions to the societal challenges through innovative youth work. Erasmus Free Minds of Royan organizes informal trainings to raise awareness of youngsters in humanitarian topics such as human rights, diversity, tolerance, LGBT rights, common values of freedom as well as equipping young people with key competences from digitalism to personal development, soft skills development to critical thinking and media literacy.

4.Do Great Things. Latvia (DGTL) organization is a non-governmental organization, whose objectives are:

• Support non-formal education in Europe, volunteering in the local and international level;

• Promote young mobility, intercultural exchange, voluntary and social cooperation among young people.

• Promote youth entrepreneurship.

• Promote social involvement;

• Promote environmental sustainability

• Fight against discrimination, intolerance.

• develop and implement projects according to public needs.

• Promote intercultural understanding, equal opportunities, respect, active citizenship and solidarity.

• Organisation is engaged youth initiatives support, project consulting, couching, youth initiatives support, mentorship,

public events organisation

• Involve and support young people with fewer opportunities.

• Acquire new skills

• Encourage the participation of young people in European programs in training courses, youth exchange, volunteering

(Erasmus +)

- Activities organized by Do Great Things. Latvia in areas relevant to

this topic this year:

-YE “Into the Wild” with 5 partnerships to raise awareness on the topic of climate change. -"Aiz vāka" local event made in 4

workshops about printing and graphic design business, one of the workshops was fully made about business management

and how to lead business and some business management

basics.

-YE “Into the Digitalization”

-YE “Stress or not to stress?”

-YE “Move on”

-“Making impact” Local soap making workshop

-Another events organized by DGT Latvia is presentations on the topic of leadership.

5.Oriel was founded in 2017 and its main office is in the province of Verona, Italy. 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 needs 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.

Nowadays our association counts more than 100 members.

Since his birth, Oriel association has tried to build network with other local like-minded organizations:

-CPS ONG, an organization founded in 1974 with the mission to improve the world, particularly in the south of it, in african and south american vulnerable countries.

-Progettomondo, an ONG created in 1966 in order to support sustainable development and global education.

-The Eurodesks in the region of Veneto, a group of organizations with the mission to communicate and raise awareness about European opportunities.

- Europiamo ETS – an Italian network of organisations involved with the Programme Erasmus +, that has as a goal to create young ambassadors for a more participative, sustainable and involved idea of Europe. (We ́re founding members)

- The youth departments of the municipalities of Verona, Padova, Schio, Valdagno, Brescia, Bosco Chiesanuova