Coordinating organisation
Associazione InformaGiovani, Italy
Associazione InformaGiovani is an non-profit organisation active since 2001 in the field of youth promoting the right to information, local and international volunteering activities and youth mobility with a special focus to young people with fewer opportunities.
The association is leading an informal European network on social volunteering, recognised by the EACEA of the European Commission with partners in 14 EU countries.
By this time, InformaGiovani has widened his experiences in implementing and coordinating activities (training, seminars, youth exchange, volunteering projects) in the frame of EU Programmes on interculturalism, inclusion, volunteerism, Non Formal Education, active participation. InformaGiovani runs voluntary workcamps at local and national level for promoting tolerance, diversity and cultural understanding.
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Partner organisations
Università degli studi di Palermo, Italy
The University of Palermo (UNIPA) is a consolidated cultural, scientific and teaching presence in central-western Sicily. Its 5 Schools and 20 Departments cover the most important domains of contemporary scientific and technological knowledge.
The Department of Pedagogical Psychological and Educational Sciences, in particular, deals with research and intervention areas related to education and social issues from a psychological and pedagogical point of view. It has academic courses in Childhood education, Primary school education, community education, adult education, clinical and development psychology, social education.
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Established in 1973, University of Aveiro (UA) quickly became one of the most dynamic and innovative universities in Portugal. Now a public foundation under private law, it continues developing and implementing its mission to provide undergraduate and postgraduate education, generating research and promoting cooperation with society.
The UA’s mission is to create knowledge and expand access to knowledge through research, education and cooperation for the benefit of people and society; to undertake the project of global development of the individual; to be active in building a European research and education community; and to promote a model of regional development based on innovation and scientific and technological knowledge.
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Col·legi d'Educadores i Educadors Socials de Catalunya, Spain
Col·legi d'Educadores i Educadors Socials de Catalunya is an association gathering social educators in Catalonia Area. It gives service of training, promotion, debate and lobby of its members.
Social educators are professionals that through action and social, educational, cultural and community research use structured strategies and educational activities to work with individuals, groups, collectives and communities in order to promote and facilitate identity construction, develop potentials, including the full circulation, social emancipation and the effective exercise of their beneficiaries’ rights of citizenship.
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Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Finland
SAVONIA is one of the largest and most versatile Universities of Applied Sciences in Finland and it has around 6.000 students.
In 2009, SAVONIA was awarded the Quality Assurance Certificate by the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council. Today quality work features all key activities. Our team of experts educates strong professionals in six different fields of study. The social service training team is specialised in bachelor and master level training of professionals in the field of social services, child protection, kindergarten teachers and social workers with specialisation in services for disabled, mentally ill people, drug and alcohol abusers, migrants and elderly population. The social service team consists of 21 specialists engaged in research, development and teaching.
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Comitato Provinciale Arcigay Palermo, Italy
Arcigay Palermo aims at promoting and defending Human and Civil Rights, fighting against homophobia and heterosexism, against prejudice and discrimination. It is committed to the establishment of equal dignity and equal opportunities for people regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and any other condition.
Arcigay Palermo provides the LGBTQ community and the territory with several services: socialisation and reception, counselling and psychological support, legal advice, medical advice. Also volunteers are involved in promoting the LGBTQ culture, in promoting awareness about sexuality and protection against sexually transmitted diseases, in promoting and organising meetings in schools and universities, in celebrating and remembering anniversaries and celebrations of the community, in fostering advocacy.
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Aventura Marão Clube, Portugal
Aventura Marão Clube (AMC) is a non-profit organisation created in 1993 by a group of young people of Amarante. The main objective is to promote a healthy way of life among the population, especially youth. AMC opened in 1999 the first Portuguese Fair Trade shop and since 2009 it has been running Casa da Juventude de Amarante (Youth Centre and Hostel).
The association is involved in Youth in Action (youth exchanges, training courses, European Voluntary Service etc.), Lifelong Learning Programme (Grundtvig, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.), Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps. In the last years AMC coordinated more than 90 European projects in its centre and involved more than 1.000 local youngsters in volunteering and international mobility.
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Stichting CAAT Projects, Netherlands
Stichting CAAT Projects is a non-profit NGO created in January 2016 and established in The Hague, developing local and international activities. CAAT stands for Creating Arts and Alternatives Together and it uses creativity and arts to empower vulnerable groups and promote tolerant communities. The organisation have two main lines of work: one is to advocate for equal opportunities for all by using mainly human rights education connected with art, the other is to empower vulnerable communities (or groups), by collaborating with local initiatives and using participatory arts.
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Fundació Catalunya Voluntària, Spain
Fundació Catalunya Voluntària (FCV) is a not for profit and non-governmental independent organisation created in 2007, as the initiative of a local youth association established in 1999. Its vision is “a world, where everyone, especially young people, has the willingness and the capacities to take actions with a positive impact in their communities, as global active citizens”. FCV actively promotes young people’s initiative and solidarity as driving forces to transform society and as a real opportunity to gain relevant competences, using non-formal, intercultural and experiential learning methodology.
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Fundació Privada FICAT, Spain
FICAT was established in 1996, with the aim of promoting equality and social justice through the defence of Human Rights in the practice of advocacy and human development. It is conceived as a space for providing assistance and legal advice, and, as well, training for new lawyers and those citizens interested in the defence of a democratic and equal society. This work is complemented by the search, together with other legal professionals, social entities, universities and public administrations, of legal and institutional action strategies that might favour the defence and the rights of individuals and groups at risk or in a situation of social exclusion.
Since 2013, FICAT has been developing new social inclusion projects with the aim of working towards social cohesion.
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Município de Lousada, Portugal
Município de Lousada is a local public administration. It aims to pursuit the interests of the population in the territorial area of Lousada Council. The council of Lousada belongs to the district of Porto and has approximately 59.000 inhabitants that are distributed within the 15 parishes of Lousada.
Through the Youth Affairs services, the Municipality has developed a strategic focus on engaging local young people in building a youth policy and taking active role in society. Several structures (such as the Youth Advisory Council) and services were recently created and the Municipality has been directly promoting or joining several international projects focused on youth and youth workers’ mobility.
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Comune di Palermo, Italy
The Secretariat for Citizenship Rights manages, on behalf of Palermo Municipality, all services and policies related to social services for young and adult people. Since summer 2014, it is responsible for the Special Unit created in co-ordination with other public authorities of the area, with the objective of assisting the incoming migrants.
Moreover the Secretariat is legally responsible for tutoring all unaccompanied foreign minors arriving in Palermo. As such, since 2014 has developed a specific competency in promoting and managing different aspects of unaccompanied minors’ life in a multicultural environment, taking care, together with Palermo University and a wide range of local NGOs, of their lodging, schooling, training, legal assistance and so on.
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Roma Capitale, Italy
Roma Capitale - Department of Tourism, Training and Employment - promotes and coordinates local development plans, conceived as integrated projects to favour employment and social development. The Department manages and coordinates the initiatives promoted by Roma Capitale with regards to training, employment and job orientation, especially aimed at vulnerable groups, people with less opportunities in accessing the labour market (e.g. refugees, unaccompanied minors).
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Service Volontaire International asbl, Belgium
Service Volontaire International is a non-profit, non-religious, non-political franco-belgian association created by and for volunteers. SVI is officially recognised as a youth organisation by the Belgian Ministry of Youth and accredited by the European Commission to send and coordinate Erasmus+ and European Voluntary Service (EVS) programmes. SVI takes part in international exchange programmes in more than 80 countries. Main focus is to prepare, send and host volunteers who wish to take part in international projects/workcamps organised by other local, non-profit associations.
SVI also defends the view that international voluntarism should be non-commercial, open to all, it should also involve citizens, and condemn the ill-effects of voluntourism. Each year, SVI allows more than 900 young volunteers to experience voluntary and solidarity work abroad.
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Südwind Association for Development Policy and Global Justice, Austria
Südwind bases its work on the principles of the non-partisan, non-denominational ÖIE - Österreichischer Informationsdienst für Entwicklungspolitik (Austrian Information Service for International Development Policy) that was founded in 1979 and renamed Südwind in 1997. Südwind is financed through national and international public funds and private contributions.
Südwind applies the unique international development expertise it has acquired to both its teaching work, particularly “Global Learning”, and its PR and Campaign work.
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