Kultur- och fritidsförvaltningen, Karlstad kommun

We, Kultur- och fritidsförvaltningen, are a department with responsibility for culture activities, sports, leasure, recreation and youthwork in Karlstad and we run 8 Youth clubs, 4 adventures playgrounds and one Youth Centre. Those Youth clubs manage organized youth activities and like open door activity, group activity, youth arrangements and international youth exchanges for teenagers. The playgrounds manage organized children and family activities. We are member of the Swedish national organization “Fritidsforum” and the international organization “ECYC”. We have many years experiences of youth exchanges and volunteer service in the EU-programme “Youth”

MJA vzw is the short name for Maatschappelijke Jongeren Actie - if we translate it in English - Social Youth Action NGO. MJA is a youth-organisation, recognised by the Flemish government. We organise vacations, summercamps, youth-activities, training courses and other non-formal educational activities for and by young people. We inform and sensibilisate about health-topics and we are a youth-movement in motion. MJA organises socio-cultural trainings (non-formal education): for starting youth workers, for youthworkers that want to become a travel guide for our group vacations, for starting as well as for advanced trainers, for youth-health-workers,... We organise as well trainings on domestical level as on international level.

Greece
INSTITUTE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES (INARE)
www.inare.org

? he Institute of Sustainable Development and Management of Natural Resources –INARE- founded in 1989 and realize studies, trainings, projects European, national and international one. The projects fields are protection of Environment, Education, Training, Health, Youth, Social Integration, Tourism, etc. INARE participates in such projects as coordinator or partner.

The last years among other projects participated in two Comenius projects of education and training one was untitled « ? are e Vita » coordinated by Italy and the other in Bulgaria for the training of unemployed young persons and Romans. In total 325 young persons were trained and among them 75%-85% found a work place immediately after the training .

INARE organized in November 2005 a feasibility study in Athens for the creation of a cultural tourism network, participated in contact making seminar in Corsica in May 2005, in Xanthi ( Greece ) in April 2006, in Bansko Bulgaria on October 2006 and we participated in A1 in Xanthi on November 2006.

Promote the cultural exchanges and the social integration of the Youth on Cross border Region between Greece and Bulgaria for disseminate the European Union principles and identity.

Nahla is a non-governmental organization dedicated to improve quality of life and promote positive values in the society providing education and support for woman and family and developing health and stabile personality with interdisciplinary approach and teamwork. The Centre has opened at the beginning of the year 2000. It works as a club, with an annual membership fee which offers various facilities and services.

Why Nahla?

• “Nahla” is an arabic word and it means “bee”. It is also the name of a chapter in the Holy Qur’an.
• “Nahla” is taking an example in honeybee’s community. It functions as an almost perfectly disciplined teamwork in the society.
• We hope that our programs and activities will be as useful and good for community as final product of the bees

Nahla´s goals

• Promote moral values in the society
• Educate woman and provide her opportunities to acquire new skills which needed her as a woman, a citizen, a parent or an employee.
• Encourage an understanding and appreciation of the diverse cultures of the world and acquiring knowledge about history and culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• Provide education about the faith.
• Break the prejudices about Islam.
• Improve psychological and physical abilities of a woman in order to help her to navigates the challenges of her daily life
• Put health education on a higher level in order to form a healthy and stabile personality.
• Confirm the relationships with NGOs in BH in order to accomplish our mission and improve our relationship with the government.
  
  

Beyond The Barriers is an NGO for young disabled, protect and promote their rights. Our members are young disabled regardless of the type or degree of disabilities. Everyone who helps and support our work can become a supporter of the association.

Our final goad is to promote a social model for disability in differences from existent medical model which treat person with disability like sick person. For us a social model is an essential step for an equal participation, mainstreaming and equal opportunities for all young disabled regardless the type or degree of disability.

Our working areas include human rights, education and professional training, infrastructure, employement, youth exchange in and abroad country.

Lithuania
Lithuania Children Theatre Society

Our organization is connecting 53 theatre educators-directors and their collectives. The purpose of our 5 last year – extend perception of theatre methods and to show how wide and versatile it could be by practising with youth. For example, in this year we are introducing process drama methods pursuing theatre environment project “environmental awareness rising through art”
Field of activity our organization are:

• Introducing of theatre methods
• Dispersion for theatrical and non-theatrical groups
• Integrated theatre projects to the youth arrangements and pursing
• Organization of festivals
• Organize competence courses for people who have less experience

We invite youth groups with fewer opportunities from small towns or sparsely populated localities to our projects. We also invite theatrical groups from special scholastic institutions wherein some movement or optic disabilities having schoolchild are being thought to theatre festivals. Our organization collaborates with social workers training centre and organizes seminars- workshops for working with the blind or physical problems having youngsters. We lead practical seminars for the social pedagogic student of Vilnius pedagogical university. We have arranged a program “The Line” it’s a progress drama about dependences prevention. We have introduced it for 15 times in two years to different audiences.

If you are young, full of ideas and crazy then you are one of us because we are Youth Generation”. Youth Generation NGO is a youth organization nowadays working on national level but intending for future to be an international organization as stated in its statute. It is going to be the first international organization with the central office in Moldova. The organization has several departments like: Culture and art, human rights, environment protection, international relations etc. Our members and volunteers are actively involved in each activity of Youth Generation, in this way we are creating a big family.

Azerbaijan Volunteers' Public Union
www.avpu.org

Azerbaijan Volunteers' Public Union (AVPU) is non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in November, 2001 and registered in August, 2003. As non-profit organization AVPU's main activity strategy based on grants awarded by different local and international donors. Since the time of the establishment AVPU successfully co-operated with European Youth Foundation based in Strasbourg/France, Eurasia Foundation, Open Society Institute – Soros Foundation, Globalfund, UNVP, UNICEF, Ministry of Youth and Sport, Embassies of Japan, UK & Northern Ireland, USA in Azerbaijan, Royal Norwegian Embassy, World Bank etc. In November of 2005, Azerbaijan Volunteers' Public Union jointly with Ministry of Youth and Sport of Azerbaijan established Azerbaijan Youth Parliament consisted of 51 elected young people. Azerbaijan Volunteers' Public Union is awarded with the “European Youth Award” of the Council of Europe according to the active participation in youth policy in Europe .

 The aim of creating the AVPU is to develop the volunteers' work in Azerbaijan , promote solution of society's problems and improve the well - being of vulnerable population. The youth of AVPU, with the help of attracted volunteers, creates all the necessary conditions for rendering gratuitous benevolent assistance to the vulnerable people of all the different social levels of society; promotes the democratization process in Azerbaijan by educating human rights in various regions and settlements of the country. Moreover, the AVPU set a task to take serious measures for restoring the cleanness of environment , planting greenery in the city and drawing population's attention to existing ecological problems . In the period of strengthening the process of Azerbaijan 's integration into the World, the broad exchange of experience promotes the development of volunteers' work as well. One of the activity forms of the AVPU is to create working camps for providing, at least minimum needs of vulnerable population (refugees, homeless children, invalids, etc.). Organizing seminars, conferences, scientific debates and doing other kinds of activities not prohibited by legislation strengthens the AVPU' s integration to international organizations and contributes to determining the volunteers' role in the world.