Jovem Cascais (Cascais, Portugal)
Jovem Cascais is the Youth Division of Cascais’ Municipality and it interventenes on three main areas: Communication; Youth Empowerment; and Youth Participation.
The Youth Division was created in 1998 as an inevitability the Municipality encountered to meet young people’s needs. It started with Young Volunteering Summer Programs and now it has Projects happening all year long. At the moment it can count with +4500 young volunteers!
Our mission is one: To empower our young people and simultaneously creating a posture of agency and belonging, so they can contribute to a more inclusive society. We invest in young people because it couldn’t any other way if we want to build a better tomorrow, a better today.
FORMA.Azione (Perugia, Italy)
FORMA.Azione is a VET provider founded in 1997. In 2003, it became an Accredited Regional Training Centre, and it has developed strong relations with local and national public authorities, private companies, schools and other VET providers, Trade unions and Civil Society Organisations, for designing and providing training pathways and integrated projects aimed at Human development and the educational domains.
Staff is especially expert in designing, delivering & evaluating training activities to improve the competences of professionals of different educational domains, such as Early Childhood Educators, School teachers, Trainers, Adult Educators, offering training courses addressing both unemployed graduate youth in the education field and professional development activities for educational workers.
Youth Focus North West (Manchester, UK)
Youth Focus North West is an organisation with strong youth work roots. We work in partnership with young people and organisations to have a voice where it counts. Our youth voice work gives young people the opportunities to make a difference individually, locally, regionally and nationally. We nurture youth work practice and we create networks, broker partnerships and open up opportunities for young people and organisations to work together.
Forum Regionale dei Giovani dell’Umbria (Perugia, Italy)
Forum Regionale dei Giovani dell’Umbria (Umbria Youth Forum) was established in 2014 by youth associations and represents 74 organisations that include more than 59.000 young people from the Region of Umbria, Italy. It is a non-profit private body which inclused active participants in the regional youth policies and has eleven working groups focused on main topics such as youth social policies; non-formal education and volunteering; youth labour policies; formal education, research and training; cultural policies and cooperation and international relations, which involve more than 140 young people. The Forum has a proper Statute and 9 elected members of the Board comprising a spokesperson, a deputy spokesperson and other seven members.
Europa Jovoje Egyesulet (Kecskemét, Hungary)
The Future of Europe Association (Európa Jövoje Egyesület – EJE) was established in 1990 with the primary objective of helping young citizens of Europe become a more tolerant generation, free from all prejudices, accepting people and their differences, so they become active European Citizens in a democratic Europe. To support this idea, the Association organizes large biennial meetings for the youth.
The biggest achievement of “Csiperó” and an advice/lesson to be followed is that it builds continuity. It is not only a festival, it is an intercultural dialogue based on continuous cooperation. The main elements of this project are mutuality and equal opportunity. All the cultural performances are equal; the main aims are the unbiased respecting and interactive adoption of cultural values.
Fundatia pentru Tineret Timis (Timisoara, Romania)
Fundatia pentru Tineret Timis (Timis County Youth Foundation – FITT) is an umbrella organization for youth NGOs in the west part of Romania.
Founded in 1990, and with 31 youth NGO members, FITT is the most important and oldest youth NGO in this part of the country.
Programs and activities implemented by FITT range from social programs for disadvantaged young people to cultural programs, active citizenship and policy development.FITT’s board fully lead by young people and it owns and administrates the Youth House in Timisoara, the only youth center in Romania having the Quality Label for Youth Centers from the Council of Europe. Also, FITT has turned several old industrial buildings into youth centers, safe spaces for free development and expression of young people.