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Ersilia Foundation aims to promote innovation in education, by any non-profit activity, and especially the following:
• Development and maintenance of educational resources aimed at specific courses and training programs.
• Design and production of multimedia educational content.
• Development and maintenance of educational resources to foster citizen participation processes and public awareness of sustainability.
• Activities for the exchange of ideas and knowledge through meetings, talks, seminars or conferences.

The main activities of the FGUV are related to culture:
- ARTS: The University of Valencia’s exhibition hall welcomes in its many rooms, exhibitions in the field of painting, photography, drawing, throughout the year by great national and international artists.
- MUSICAL ACTIVITIES: the Philharmonic Orchestra of University of Valencia and the University Choir
- THEATRE: annual programs, permanent workshops, Theatre Group and Performances of “Erasmus Scene”.
Furthermore, the FGUV is an important cultural tool for the University of Valencia and fulfills its tasks through these centres:
- EUROPEAN DOCUMENTATION CENTRE: designed by the European Commission to collect and disseminate the European Union’s publications for the purposes of research and education.
- EMPLOYMENT: through the Observatory of job insertion and occupational guidance, whose main aim is to facilitate and promote the employment of all University students and graduates.
- DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION: the FGUV manages development co-operation projects, that promote sustainable economic growth and improvements in the living standards in emerging economies, promoting the dialogue,
- DISABLED: We provide aid for disabled students

Recherche, diffusion du patrimoine culturel, etc.
Projets européens: Medtaste (Mediterranean taste for languages), industries culturelles Valle del Cauca et Cauca, Taste for Peace, Résau Ibertur, etc.

Our areas of work include the following:
? Applied research, on areas including cultural policy, culture and local development, cultural rights, creative industries, international cultural cooperation, etc.
? Multilateral cooperation, through the organisation of or participation in international debates, conferences, networks and publications on cultural matters.
? Information services, including monthly e-newsletter Cyberkaris.
? Training activities
? Advice and consultancy to public and private organisations in the field of culture.

The main projects currently being executed or waiting to be started are:
From the International Cooperation and Human Aid Department:
-Student exchange Program in Georgia:
-Enlargement of a building and academic cooperation with Hotel & Tourism School in Namibia
-Human Rights and social development seminars in Equatorial Guinea
-Construction of a Special Education School in Jericho
-University Spanish-Syrian Seminar
From the Academic Area:
-Set of activities, whose objectives are complementing university studies and promoting the values of solidarity in culture of every person interested in our activities. These courses are recognised with university credits by Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
-Meeting at Sant Jeroni de la Murtra
-Economy Meeting at S’Agaró

Our projects in the Euro-Mediterranean region are the following:
- Support to trade union training for the promotion and strengthening of workers’ actions as democratic agents in Algeria.
- Support to the programme of assessment to unemployed Arab women of Israel in order for them to become employed in the agricultural sector.
- Programme for the strengthening and training of metalworkers’ trade unions in Bosnia-Herzegovina , Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia.
- Awareness campaign for the respect of labour human rights of women workers in the countries of the South: Egypt, Colombia, Israel and Balkans Region.
- Programme for reciprocal visiting and training of teachers between the towns of Chefchaouen (Morocco) and Girona (Catalonia).
- Publishing of an audiovisual work related to the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Our main projects in Latin America are the following:
- Strengthening of trade union organizations from Central America for the accomplishment of the Strategic aims of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
- Strengthening of the organisation structure of the trade unions belonging to the cleaning sector in the Callao region of Peru, together with the promotion of a gender focus in those organisations.

o Career counseling and job placement for people with disabilities or in other vulnerable groups
o Employment for people with intellectual disabilities or in other vulnerable groups
o Child, adolescent, and disabled residential care
o Foster care
o Preschool management
o CSR consulting
o Training
o International development
o International programs and projects with people and organizations in the public, business, and social sectors
o Volunteering

Our activities are in the fields of:
- Participation and local development
- Mediation and Community Action
- Accessibility and Equal Opportunities
- Social inclusion: community plans, social creativity, sport, gender issues and evaluation
For each activity, FDC offers:
Research work
Consulting
Training
Services and Projects Management
Innovation and pilot projects
FDC has an International Area which promotes projects in these different fields at the European, Mediterranean, African and Latinamerican levels. Actually, FDC international activities is the continuity of the work done in Catalunya, so that the exchange of good practices in the field of Community Development contribute to build a more coherent, more democratic and more just society at both local, regional, national and international levels.

On July 2015, we won the XII Blas Infante Solidarity Prize 2015 with our "dream project" multi-cultural civic center.
http://www.casares.es/es/BLAS_INFANTE/-___Premios_Blas_Infante__Casares_...
http://casaresinformacionlocal.blogspot.com.es/2015/07/ongs-y-asociacion...

To optimize the prize and raise funds for the civic center, we decided to organize three to five educational solidarity days through lectures, workshops on social, health and personal development, ecology-feeding and other activities (such as social relational art, music and cuisine from around the world) on weekends throughout 2016.
This series of specific activities in a day would replicate the model of the civic center and would finance the final project, a Multicultural Civic Center.
We want to promote interrcultural exchange through arts and creative process, personal development and education for immigrants, youth and  people on risk of social exclusion.
At the same time, we participate with the Time Bank Network of Palma and Adventreks Eco-Society and Welfare Association in India.It focuses on humanitarian projects in India for the integration and development of children, oppressed communities and impoverished families.

Our projects are focused in the socio-labour inclusion of disadvantaged gropus through employment and entrepreneurship projects.
In 2014 we have run 25 projects, 19 of them still implementing and the rest finished during the first part of 2015. The total number of beneficiaries of our projects is more than 2600.
The activities are the following:
• 18 employment programs.
• 5 projects on entrepreneurship for youth at risk.
• 1 project on micro-financing to women.
• 3 projects on social entrepreneurship for NGO that will generate employment.
• 1 research on market niches for the youth entrepreneurship.
In 2015 we started to work in social action interventions in development countries. We are transferring the methodology of the Employment shuttles (Vives People), to the project "Livelihood Initiatives to foster employability and entrepreneurship of IDPs (Internal Displaced Persons) and host populations in Georgia - LIFE Georgia", funded by the Development and Cooperation - EuropeAid Directorate-General of the European Commission.