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THE ASHA 'VOLUNTEER FOR CHANGE' EVS PROJECT 9th edition

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The ASHA Foundation is a charity which encourages and supports philanthropy worldwide and works for youth empowerment, interfaith and intercultural understanding and sustainable development. This EVS project involves eight volunteers from Spain, Germany, France, Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia: for a period of ten months (October 2016 – July 2017) to volunteer at the ASHA Centre, Glouc...
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Discover the Caucasus – Volunteering across cultures 3 (Part 2)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The European Voluntary Service “Discover the Caucasus – Volunteering across cultures 3 (Part 2)” brings four volunteers from Germany to get active in two EVS hosting organisations in Armenia and Georgia.The EVS services will take place from October 2016 to September 2017, for a total of 12 months each.The involved partner organisations are:1. Sending and Coordinating Organisation- European Intercu...
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Discover the Caucasus - Volunteering Across Cultures 3

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The European Voluntary Service “Discover the Caucasus – Volunteering across cultures 3” brings seven volunteers from Germany to get active in four different EVS hosting organisations in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.The EVS services will take place from September 2016 to August 2017 (Armenia), a total of 12 months.The involved partner organisations are:1. Sending and Coordinating Organisation- E...
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Reconciliation through DialogueCreating a Shared Understanding of the Past

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Youth projects aimed at peacebuilding often fall short on addressing the historical memory of a conflict. When legacies of violence are not addressed, historical wounds are left to fester and diverging narratives of an otherwise common past continue to haunt relations between antagonizing communities (e.g. negative stereotypes, fixed enemy images and propaganda in the Caucasus region). Reconciliat...
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Youth Empowerment and Social Transformation

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

EU countries and its Eastern partners are being challenged by cuts of individual and collective rights in the last years, and by an upraise of ultra-nationalist and anti-EU social and political movements that represent a thread for the maintenance of these rights and the amend of those that have been already set aside. The cuts on the rights and the populist ultra-nationalist uprising differ on it...
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Multicultural Kids

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

Project is open for volunteers form Germany, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Portugal and Bulgaria, motivated to work with children in primary schools and kindergarden. It consists of 4 activities coordinated by Volunteer Center. In activity 1 a volunteer will be involved in work of Kindergarden with classes integrating children with disabilities and in other activities the volunteer swill be involved in w...
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Scout Centre Project 2016

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Houens Odde Spejdercenter is biggest scout centre in Northern Europe. It is owned by KFUM-Spejderne i Danmark - the biggest scout association in Denmark. The main ideas of our scout organisation is to educate children and youth through activities, learning by doing, and children teach children, and non-formal learning. By doing this we help developing children and young people in to becoming inde...
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Peace from the grassroots

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2017,

The UN Security Council approved last December the resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security, to recognize the role of youth in building sustainable peace and to lay out the need for governments and other stakeholders to support young people in this role. With this resolution, youth and youth organizations involved in peacebuilding see how their role in official or grassroots peace processes ga...
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Youth Empowerment for Inclusion – Change Making by Capacity Development

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2017,

Against the background of a raising number of refugees and IDPs in Europe, predominantly due to the war in Syria and Ukraine and not to forget the “old” IDPs from the wars in the 1990ies in the Caucasus, the project would like to provide youth workers from Western and Eastern Europe with a platform debating reasons and effects of migration as well as approaches and concrete activities for addressi...
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Discover the Caucasus - Volunteering across cultures 2

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The European Voluntary Service “Discover the Caucasus – Volunteering across cultures 2” brings four volunteers from Germany to get active in two different EVS hosting organisations: - Youth Cooperation Centre of Dilijan (YCCD) in Dilijan, Armenia (2 placements) - SIQA – Georgian Association of Educational Initiatives (SIQA) in Rustavi, Georgia (2 placements) The volunteers are sent by the European...
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Youth Empowerment for Change

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

When analysing the current situation in the EU, Eastern Europe, and the EECA countries we observe that youth face several common challenges, with obvious peculiarities and different levels of intensity depending on the country. To mention some of them, youngsters face difficulties to access the labour market, ineffective political participation, low-quality and limited opportunities for personal d...
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THE ASHA 'VOLUNTEER FOR CHANGE' EVS PROJECT 8th edition

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The ASHA Foundation is a charity which encourages and supports philanthropy worldwide and works for youth empowerment, interfaith and intercultural understanding and sustainable development. This EVS project involves ten volunteers from Spain, Germany, Ukraine, Turkey and Palestine for a period of eleven months (September 2015 – August 2016) to volunteer at the ASHA Centre, Gloucestershire, UK. ...
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Embodied Peacebuilding - Compassion in Action in a Changing World

Start date: May 3, 2016, End date: Dec 2, 2016,

In current political and social situation with spreading nationalism, radicalization of the political and religious groups, it is essential that people are equipped with peace building skills, as well as understand themselves in midst of conflict and thus decide to act from place of tolerance and respect. Project ''Embodied Peacebuilding - Compassion in Action in a Changing World" is an 8-days tra...
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Mainstreaming Peace Education: Competence Framework

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The project is set in the context of non-formal education for young people. It builds on the experiences of a Grundtvig Partnership Project “Mainstreaming Peace Education - Approaches, Methodologies, and Visions”. The project’s main aim is to build a Competence Framework for Peace Education in youth work. Specific project objectives include: - developing a competence framework including knowledge...
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Education for Peace – Developing Competences for Peace Education in the Youth Field

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Many types of conflicts exist in Europe ranging from social tensions, community conflicts to ethnic and identity-based violent conflict in Eastern Europe, namely in Ukraine and the South Caucasus. To aid communities and individuals affected by these conflicts, peace education - defined as a holistic, multidisciplinary and transformative process to develop competences in nonviolent conflict transf...
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Peace+: Building a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence

Start date: May 16, 2016, End date: Oct 15, 2016,

Context: The training team recognises the need to create trainings in order to be able to deal with and solve conflicts nonviolently, personally, interpersonally and internationally. We see a lack of opportunites for young people to learn and gain skills in nonviolence.There is an increasing violent atmosphere in Europe, with rising levels of Islamophobia, radicalisation and terrorist attacks. Thi...
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Service learning 5

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Association of social volunteers „ODIN/VITA” is going to coordinate the 12 months long EVS project „Service learning 5” with 4 volunteers (3 from Germany and 1 – from Portugal) in Daugavpils. The project gives a chance for youth (also for youth with disadvantaged backgrounds and fewer opportunities compared to their peers) to take part in the international project where they can improve their pers...
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“For Youth Cooperation Across the Mediterranean!”

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The events occurred along the shore of the Mediterranean Sea over the past months, in already sadly famous scenarios such as Lampedusa, the Straits of Gibraltar or the Greek coasts, depict over again the Mediterranean Basin as one of the main migratory and most border-controlled areas in the world. As social movements have pointed out, the Mediterranean has become a graveyard where the daily geno...
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“I Love Project” Contact Making Seminar

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"I Love Project" Contact Making Seminar is an Erasmus+ KA-1 Mobility of Individuals (young people and youth workers) partnership building activity to be realized in İstanbul, Turkey between 4 - 10 August 2016, by YOUTHART Youth Art Research and Training Association, as an active youth organization with Eurodesk and EVS accreditation and as an active member of European Youth4Media Network, National...
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Cross Border

Start date: Sep 16, 2014, End date: Sep 15, 2016,

Cross Border project aims to develop and enhance the process of search for a job or career of youth from urban and rural areas in difficulty in order to make their EVS a springboard for their future. Quality support (training courses, tutoring, follow-ups, individual interview, tripartite maintenance, linguistic workshops, workshop on youth pass, CV workshop...) with key partners (receiving and s...
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Peace Education in Youth Work – Competence Development for Peace Educators

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

On the background of a variety of societal and ethnic conflicts as well as social tensions in Europe, the project is based on the assumption that peace education is not only a form of education that is needed in so called conflict areas but a necessary form of education in all communities to ensure human rights protection, nonviolence and participation as fundamental principles of societal life. T...
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Youth Impact: Strengthening Organisational Capacities to Build Peace in Europe

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

In this project six youth organisations, all working on peace education, will work together to research monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) and create guidelines for youth organisations to embed MEL within their structures and processes. The partner organisations are the United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY) based in the Netherlands and five of members of the UNOY European network: EI...
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Youth lead peacebuilding initiatives

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Jul 1, 2016,

Anyone having a brief look into the EECA region on the last years would agree in a main conclusion: the escalation of tensions among the countries of the region and with the neighbouring Russia is a fact that no one can ignore. Ukraine is the lately most affected country, with an on-going war in the eastern regions of Lugansk and Donets, which is having consequences in the entire country and regio...
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Scout and Volunteer Project 2015

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Houens Odde Spejdercenter is biggest scout centre in Northern Europe. It is owned by KFUM-Spejderne i Danmark - the biggest scout association in Denmark. The main ideas of our scout organisation is to educate children and youth through activities, learning by doing, and children teach children, and non-formal learning. By doing this we help developing children and young people in to becoming ind...
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Action! Film and Theatre as tools for exploring and developing Community Cohesion

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Action! Film and Theatre as tools for exploring and developing Community Cohesion. A 7 day residential training course for youth workers, youth activists, community film and theatre practitioners and teachers held at the Eton Dorney Centre, Windsor. This is an experiential course in using theatre and film with young people to explore issues pertinent to their lives. The course will be delivered us...
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EVS IMPACT- PRESENT-PAST-FUTURE

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

The main activity of the project: "EVS IMPACT: Past-Present-Future" is a 7 day seminar in Santander, bringing together a group of 40 volunteers from 13 organizations and 12 countries. All young people from Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania, Norway, Turkey and Spain have participated in EVS projects coordinated by Asociación Ser Joven from Spain (coordinat...
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FIND OURSEL-EVS

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Youth unemployment is one of the biggest challenge of 21st century Europe. The skills required from the employment context are not always assured by the formal education system. Non-formal education, and European Voluntary Service in particular, is a useful tool to develop these skills and it’s an option increasingly more sought by young unemployed to live an experience that can open the doors to ...
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Active Citizens for Reconciliation Building Peace Together Through Remembrance

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Conflict transformation is of crucial relevance for all modern European societies as diverse conflict cleavages exists on international, societal and interpersonal levels in all European countries. Many of those cleavages have their roots in the legacy of the past and cannot be seen disconnected from the heritage of past authoritarian regimes or from former territorial and ethnic conflicts. While ...
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Active Citizens in the Caucasus 3

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

The European Voluntary Service "Active Citizens in the Caucasus 3" is the third edition of the series of EVS projects under this title. It involves four volunteers from Germany (sent by the European Intercultural Forum e. V.) in 2 different hosting placements in the Caucasus: Youth Initiative Centre in Gyumri, Armenia (2 placements) and Youth Public Union "Bridge to the Future" in Ganja, Azerbaija...
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We are multipliers

Start date: May 2, 2015, End date: Feb 1, 2016,

Erasmus+ Mobility of youth workers “We are multipliers“ was aimed for youth workers directly working with young people from different target groups or responsible for sharing and providing information about different opportunities (especially Erasmus+ programme) to young people, youth organizations, decision makers etc. Project took place in Istanbul, Turkey and involved 44 participants from 10 co...
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ASHA Volunteering in Youth Work Course

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

ASHA “Volunteering in Youth Work” is an Erasmus+ Key Action 1 – Mobility of Youth Workers (October 2014 deadline) project aimed at developing youth worker competences in volunteer management, promotion of volunteering among young people and exchanging expertise on volunteer projects. The project will take place between June and September 2015. Due to high demand and interest among European partner...
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Keys to employability - soft skills development for empowering young people

Start date: Jul 5, 2015, End date: Jan 4, 2016,

The main project activity, the Training Course “Keys to employability – soft skills development for empowering young people” took place between 8th -15th of September 2015 (plus 2 days for travel, in total 10 days between 7-16.09.2015) in Aghveran, Armenia. 27 youth workers(plus 2 trainers from ICRLD) and youth leaders from 11 countries (Poland,Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Macedonia, Ukraine, Bulgar...
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Create Equal Opportunities in the Cultural Diversity!

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Jan 1, 2016,

Discriminations which raised up cause of Cultural Diversity and Differences is getting more and more visible in Europe and the people from another cultures are getting unvisible in the societies. Within the training course which we want to implement, we aimed to create an awareness between youthworkers about diversity and equip them with tools for project development and to use these tools effecti...
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Innovative Cross-Sectorial Policies for quality, active youth participation

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Jan 1, 2016,

The project ‘Innovative Cross-Sectoral Policies for quality, active youth participation’ is a 5 day Study Visit to Brussels Belgium. The project aims to introduce the basis of cross-sectoral youth policies and empowering a group of youth workers and youth leaders with competences to make and advocate for genuine innovative, cross-sectoral policies possible and realistic in their communities for be...
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Rights for Everybody – Human Rights Education for Youth Inclusion

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The human right situation in Europe has to be described as very diverse. All member states of the European Union are categorised as free states, following the rating in the Freedom of the World 2014 report (Freedom House) only a few limitations in civil liberty and political rights can be found in some states. However, outside the EU in Europe, the post-soviet area is described by the very same re...
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Youth Empowerment and Participation

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

In today's society many young people tend to feel marginalised and unable to find their place. It is therefore very important that adults, in particular, youth workers and youth leaders encourage young people so that they can realise their capabilities and be actively involved within society. Youth participation and empowerment have indeed become very important issues in youth work and youth polic...
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In-Out: Youth Inclusion in Practice

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Against the background of a high youth unemployment rate in Europe, political marginalisation and exclusion of youth, the training course gathered youth and social workers from different countries and provided them with space to learn from and with each other by sharing their approaches and practises on youth inclusion and by analysing the European strategy on youth with the aim to draw conclusion...
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YOUTH BUILDS PEACE IN EUROPE

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Training course ?Youth builds Peace in Europe? was held in Kobuleti, Georgia, on 20 - 28 June 2015. In the training participated together 32 youth workers, youth leaders and youth educators as well as youth activists from 13 European countries: Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Moldova. Peace-building and conflict transfo...
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Structured Participation in Democratic Processes

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The 'Structured Participation in Democratic Processes' project has been the result of CNJC's and its partners' network active participation in the two editions of the Mediterranean University on Youth and Global Citizenship (MedUni) celebrated so far (2013, 2014 editions). The MedUni is the common space launched by Euro-Mediterranean youth associations and platforms, together with the Council of E...
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EVS for rising intercultural understanding

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Centre of Youth Initiatives Horyzonty invites 3 volunteers (from Spain, Germany and Ukraine) to participate in the projet: ?EVS for Rusing intercultural understanding?. Volunteers will spend 11 months (from 1st October 2014 till 30th August 2015) performing regular workshops for children and young people, using non formal education methods, arts and sports. Workshops will take place in local schoo...
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