Training Course DEAL is being implemented by 15 different organisations from around Europe. If you are searching then for quality cooperation in the future, check out our partners:
UNITED KINGDOM – Consilium Development and Training
Consilium DT is a not-for-profit NGO established in 2009. Our aim is to provide learning opportunities which help people to grow as a person and to develop skills for employability. We are experienced in running community programmes and projects such as Youth in Action training courses, Leonardo placements (hosting and sending), Grundtvig Workshops and Senior Volunteering. Staff also have 10+ years of experience managing Youth in Action EVS projects, providing vocational training and assessment for college students, and delivering continuing professional development training to teachers and youth work staff.
POLAND – My Dreams Come True Association
My Dreams Come True Association (MMS) was set up in Poland in 2011 by a group of young people passionate about the overall societal development, intercultural education as well as building capacity and working towards self-realization of youth. By means of supporting young people in making their dreams come true, we would like to positively influence the negative perspectives of many youngsters in our region and elsewhere. Many of them still do not feel confident to rich out for success and thus take steps towards their own bright future. Hence, our aims are to:
• Break barriers which negatively affect the development of youth and stop them from achieving their goals
• Work toward building precious skills, competences as well as developing positive attitudes among young people
• Supporting youth is full professional and personal development
• Enable young people the access to mobility opportunities existing in and outside Europe
• Creating platforms of understanding and cooperation at all levels of the society.
MALTA – Malta UNESCO Youth Association
MUYA is a youth association represented in Malta in cooperation with National Co-ordination Body (National Commission of UNESCO in Malta). MUYA works in the field of developing culture, education, science and communication and spreading the ideas of UNESCO amongst youth and grown up population in Malta and internationally through organisation of programmes and projects including training courses, seminars and exchanges on a national and international level and through the publishing of diverse literature.
In all fields of the organisations’ activities MUYA has always done its utmost to offer the possibility for participation to those with fewer opportunities and at risk of social exclusion, i.e. younger people with lower education and from disadvantaged societal groups. This has been done through various international youth exchanges, seminars and training courses funded by the YiA programme as well as through volunteering in the local projects run by MUYA.
TURKEY – Tekkeköy District Directorate of National Education
Tekkeköy District Directorate of National Education is situated in the centre of the district, Tekkeköy in Samsun/TURKEY. It is coordinating and operating all the educational activities over the district as it is the most authorized educational institution in Tekkeköy. It has a core staff with the number of 20, but with our schools, teachers and students, we have about ten thousand people involved in our directorate. There are 4 workers in the project coordination unit. We have been accredited by our National Agency as sending and coordinating organisation for EVS(2010-TR-49) in July, 2010. With our project coordination unit, we always search for the programmes, national/international projects,contacts for making all people who are related to our institution (students, youngsters, teachers, workers, managers, parents, etc.) be familiar with all concepts of youth in action, come together, have contact and work with other people from other countries of Europe. Since we are in a rural area, our young people don’t have so many opportunities as the people in urban area. We try to develop and improve our education and social activity opportunities provided to students and young people by following all new technologies and best pedagogical, cultural and social methods in order to present the most desired and beneficial education for our society. We would like to make our children and young people be ready for the life mentally,psychologically and physically and eventually upper the social, economical and educational level of the society.
CROATIA – Udruga mladih PHARINA
Youth Association “Pharina” association at the level of activity of the island. Brings together young people from 14-35 years, who live in this area. The scope of action, we are very wide from working with high school age in the development of tolerance and democracy, preparing them for admission to colleges and orientation in the new towns, informal skill development with all types of knowledge in young II, the organization of various sports, humanitarian action, and action in bodies the city and the development of applications related to improving the lives of young people in the city. Our main aim is to share our experience among the associations and young people who are interested in European topics or making any project with any other European association. We believe its is important to contribute to the youth associations with resources as for example the youth programme among others .
ITALY – Associazione Puzzle
Association Puzzle is situated in the north of Italy in the city of Turin. Some of its main objectives are:
– Provide citizens, particularly young people, places and occasions for meeting and leisure, through the openings of the Puzzle center and weekly events on the territory.
– Develop personal creativity and enhancing the skills of young people involved in various activities.
– Implement initiatives and events aimed at an audience of young and old.
– Promote opportunities for interaction and debate between generations.
– Encourage the involvement of citizens in dialogue and cooperation;
-Increase the skills and knowledge of the participants with the aim of helping them to find work.
– Promote the self-organization of young people.
– Promote the value of legality and environmental sensibility
ITALY – Città di Torino
Our organization is a public body that has presented and got approved since 1990 around 50 projects to “Youth in Action” under the actions 1,2, 3 and 5, giving the opportunity to more than 300 Italian youngsters each year to have a great experience. In the last years, being a big city, we couldn’t have access to European grants any more, but we usually give consultancy and support to youth organizations about EU programmes, expecially in organizing exchanges.
We also organize training courses and we give information about training courses and workshops for group leaders in Italy and abroad. Being an umbrella organization and being in touch with all our youth centers in town, we can easily recruit participants according to the target group required (including those with fewer opportunities).
PORTUGAL – Ananda Cooperativa Cultural
Ananda CRL, is a Cultural NGO founded in June 2009, non profit, working on Cultural and Intercultural area, Volunteering and Social issues at a local level.
Ananda promotes intercultural dialogue with people from all ages, focusing on finding common grounds between east, west, north and south cultures through activities like seminars, conferences, training courses, workshops, youth exchanges, cultural events such as art exhibitions, dance and music concerts.
The intent is to promote cultural awareness through formal and non-formal education using a creative and innovative approach.
SPAIN – Asociación juvenil Proyecto Barcelona
Proyecto Barcelona is a non-profit organisation based in Barcelona. The main aim of our organization is to improve employment opportunities particularly among young people and promote intercultural learning, resilience and creativity like means of empowerment for people at risk of professional exclusion or available on the labour market.
Proyecto Barcelona encourages the transfer and validation of skills through the European framework, by using tools from models as VPL – Validation of Prior Learning, Adaptem, aimed to emphasize the European dimension of learning, and ECVET system.
SLOVAKIA – A.D.E.L. – Association for Development, Education and Labour
ADEL is an organisation which tries to create opportunities for 
young people who would like to be active, try and learn something new and gain some experience and knowledge for personal and professional development. We would like to enrich the educational, social and cultural life of young people living in our country, mainly young people with fewer opportunities and coming from Eastern Slovakia.
Our organization is aimed towards community of youth development, because we believe that young people can play an active role in the public life and become partners in the decision-making processes, and a driving force in the shaping of the society they live in. We would like to contribute to the formation of new successful generation, which is determined to change the world for the better.
Our main goals are:
– to increase employment of young people and to support their personal and professional development,
– to inform and promote opportunities for young people about study abroad, internships, volunteering etc.,
– to promote European integration of western Balkan countries and constructive debate about EU,
– to encourage active citizenship and civic participation of young people in particular,
– to assist in building and developing a civil society based on the principles of democracy, freedom, pluralistic and rule of law, justice, responsibility and solidarity,
– to promote and seek the solutions for increasing the transparency in the allocation of public resources,
– to increase legal awareness of citizens and to promote and protect of human rights and freedoms,
– to encourage a responsible attitude to the nature and animals, to promote healthy lifestyles and environmental protection,
– to promote regional development and cross-border cooperation.
GREECE – Kids in Action
Kids In Action is a non-governmental organization established in 2003. The team is organize puppet shows, traditional shadow theatre, clowns performances, stilts, juggler, street theatre, magic show to children that they don’t have the opportunity and the chances to attend by virtue of economical/ geographical jams. The performances are given to orphans, hospitals, special schools, villages of the border even to small islands of Aegean sea. Through the entertainment children are learning about cooperation, solidarity and coexistence and further more about acceptance and respect of otherness of people.
BULGARIA – Association for Career Development and Training
ASSOCIATION FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING – AKRO is an NGO working in the field of education and training in the country and abroad organizing training programs and courses in the field of vocational education and training combined with key competencies. Association supports the dialogue in society, social integration and personal development. AKRO team work towards creation of conditions for the expression of knowledge, skills, qualities and talents of people from all walks of life; enhanced employability and successful realization in the labor market. Members of the association are national and international vocational schools, adult education providers, companies and prominent professionals as individual members.
BELGIUM – Spirit of Freedom INGO
SoF is an international Network Organization who develops the mind & talent in young people. Through developing the mind, youngsters are able to believe more in themselves and taking responsibility for their own creation process and results in their life. SoF believes:
The basis of life is FREEDOM, the purpose of life is JOY and the result of life is GROWTH…
SoF is reaching this outcome by organizing projects, training & workshops in the field of “Personal Development & Entrepreneurship” in an informal way based on EXPERIENCE and FUN.
ROMANIA – Association Do Great Things
Do Great Things (D.G.T.) Association is a non-governmental non-profit organization that was born from the passion of a few youngsters who wanted to take action and make a change in the society they were living into. D.G.T.’s founding members have had the desire to give back all the things they have learned and experienced during previous years of volunteering.
D.G.T.’s mission focuses on national and international networking among young people, students, trainers and teachers of different nationalities, cultures and backgrounds. It tackles topics such as inter-cultural exchange, non-formal education, ecology, climate change, sustainable development, European citizenship and international politics (geopolitics). All these are added to facilitate the accumulation of experience by young people, through voluntary activities and non-formal education methods, allowing them to put into practice the theory learned in school.
LATVIA – Youth center “Baze“
Youth Center “BĀZE” is institution of Gulbene District municipality. Idea of Base (Latvian – bāze) is to be a place for youngsters, where they can come and feel like at their own place.
Aims of organisation is to give support for local youngsters to realize their initiatives in local level and to enable young people to make informed decisions, to help them to avail of opportunities open to them, to realise their full potential and actively participate in community life. Also – organisation is coordinator of youth issues in Gulbene – by spreading youth information to organisations, foundations, youth groups.
Since 2006 – when organisation was established – there have been hosted different „Youth in Action” projects – youth exchanges, EVS, initiatives, trainings and seminars.
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