Organisations and Activities
On this page, you can find out about the practical projects carried out in different countries. All information is supplied by the responsible organisations.
Albania
"Youth and Cultural Heritage"
Participants from Macedonia and Albania explore the diversity of their two cultures.
Organisation: NEHEMIA School, Pogradec
Contact person: Ms Eralda Jesku ()
Further information:
Austria
"Young People Help Old People"
4 young people from our city district give internet, mobile phone and computer lessons to 15 elder people from Salzburg city.
Organisation: Corner Salzburg
Contact person: Ahmet Yagmur ()
Further information:
http://www.corner-salzburg.at/index_en.htm
Germany
“colored kids 2010-2011”
In this EVS project, the volunteers (with migrant background) will work with children,mediate their life experience trough their culture and enrich the children's education with cultural and social diversity.
Organisation: IFAP – Institut für angewandte Pädagogik e.V., Apolda
Contact person: René Leisering ()
Further information (in German):
"German-Ukraine-Russian Academy of Cultural Youth Work"
This international academy is organised every year by organisations of young migrants in Germany and organisations of German minorities in Ukraine and Russia.
Organisation: djo-Deutsche Jugend in Europa Bundesverband e.V., Berlin
Contact person: Johanna Bontzol ()
Further information (in German):
Internationale Akademien für Jugendkulturarbeit 2008
JunOst, djo: Migrantenselbstorganisationen als Akteure der internationalen Jugendarbeit
"Integration through Online-Counselling"
The online counselling aims at providing assistance to young people with migration background, who cannot be reached by the traditional JMD (Youth Migration Services) counselling services or where barriers exist to address those services. The JMD online counselling will include mail counselling, individual and group chat counselling, discussion forum and advisory forum.
Organisation: BAG EJSA, Bonn
Contact person: Özcan Ülger , )
Further information (in German):
"Integration of young people with migrant background in long term volunteer service"
In joint effort with migrant organisations, ICJA promotes the possibilities of a long term volunteer service with EVS or other programs to migrant youth in Germany.
Organisation: ICJA Freiwilligenaustausch weltweit e.V., Berlin
Contact person: Timo Kiesel ()
Further information:
"Interactive Workshop of Europe"
The Interactive Workshop of Europe is a two-stage training program about methods of intercultural learning in European youth meetings, where experienced actors of international youth work share their knowledge in a series of interactive workshops.
Organisation: Tor-Weg-Wohnung e.V., Hohensolms
Contact person Sina Burghard ()
Further information:
http://www.workshop-of-europe.eu
"International Teamer School"
This project aims at the education of teamers and trainers from different European countries in the following fields: intercultural and international youth projects, adventure education and workcamps, ecological, cultural, political and social youth projects, young people with special needs in youth projects (integration), fund raising and project development.
Organisation: Grüner Grashalm e.V., Fahren
Contact person: Horst Laube ()
Further information:
"PoP – paths of participation. New ways for inclusion and active participation of young people living in suburban and marginalized areas in European cities”
The projects will seek to support the integration of young people with fewer opportunities living in suburban areas in Europe, in line with the programme’s (Youth in Action) overall priorities, which are intended to encourage participation by young people, cultural diversity, European citizenship, social integration and 2007’s special priority, promoting equal opportunities. The final conference will be held in Berlin 10.-13.5.2009
Organisation: ISIS Berlin e.V.
Contact person: Dominik Ringler ()
Further information:
"Roots&Routes Experience 2008"
More than 100 people from 10 European countries met at the Remscheid Academy in July 2008 to create together a live show with music, dance, media and graffiti elements on the topics of intercultural dialogue, unity and old school HipHop that was performed for a large audience at GLORIA theater Cologne on July 18th.
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"Roots&Routes TV"
ROOTS&ROUTES TV is a Web TV platform for youth, music, lifestyle and cultural diversity, with young editorial crews in five German cities and all over Europe. Young people with different cultural roots get together in workshops and editorial groups, producing creative products and reports on urban culture and cultural diversity in their everyday life. The website is currently available in 12 languages, with partners in 13 countries.
Organisation: jfc Medienzentrum, Cologne
Contact person: Sascha Düx ()
Further information:
"Windows on America"
Two weeks scholarship program for migrant youth to the USA.
Organisation: Experiment e.V., Bonn
Contact person: Tom Kurz ()
Further information:
www.experiment-ev.de (German website)
"Y.E.S. Forum - Youth and European Social Work"
Founded in 2002, the Youth and European Social Work Forum (or Y.E.S. Forum) is a network of different organisations across 14 countries in the EU. It is bound together by a commitment to social inclusion and active participation of children and young people who experience disadvantage and exclusion.
Organisation: Y.E.S. Forum - Youth and European Social Work, Stuttgart
Contact persons: Annett Wiedermann, Alicja Masievič ()
Futher information:
Macedonia
Youth Exchange "Feel Macedonia"
27 civil engineering students from whole Europe have spent one week in Macedonia in order to see the beauty of Macedonia and the civil engineering situation in Macedonia.
Organisation: IACES ( International Association of Civil Engineering Students), Skopje
Contact persons: Natasha Cvetanovska (LC-Administration) ( and Bojan Pelivanoski ()
Further information:
Portugal
"Integration of the Gender Perspective in Immigration (SIGI)"
Social intervention project (2008/2010) financed by the European Social Fund, which targets the immigrant population and consists on a Personalized Attending and Support office, informative sessions about gender equality and immigration issues, and research on immigrant empowerment.
Organisation: ASI – Associação de Solidariedade Internacional (International Solidarity Association), Porto
Contact person: Ana Coutinho ()
Further information:
Serbia
"Meet Differences Find Equalities"
This project aims at finding similarities and differences between different cultures in order to break down prejudices between different nations.
Organisation: OSMEH - Organization for Solidarity, Mobility, Ecology and Humanity of youth, Belgrade
Contact person: Ana Jovanovic ()
Further information:
Meet differences, Find Equalities
