Luxemburg

AGD's objectives are notably achieved by the following activities:
• International education, youth and cultural exchanges on sustainability issues, in particular in the field of environmental protection and development cooperation,
• Institutional support to organizations working on the SDGs (sustainable development goals), namely sustainable/global development,
•Promotion of science and research as well as art and culture by supporting the art-science dialogue as a means and expression of a sustainable transfer of knowledge,
•Reinforcement of positive discourses on sustainability issues, in particular education and environmental protection, through the participation and organization of events and conferences.

Main Projects in 2020:
1-AGD participated this year in a TRAINING OF TRAINERS project: Facilitating "hot potato" topics with multicultural groups as part of Erasmus + KA1 - Learning mobility of individuals Mobility of Youth Workers. The aim of this project is to support the capacity building of partner organizations through the professional development of youth workers, youth leaders, and trainers in the field of dialogue facilitation with multicultural groups.
2- Entrepreneurship to Empower project: This project started in February 2020. The aim of this project is to address the identification of existing best practices and the development of support schemes for the
transmission of attitudes, skills, and competences of Social Entrepreneurship to disadvantaged young people (NEETs) in partner countries and at the European level.

Project in 2021:

"Erasmus Me" project: this project aims to answer and satisfy identified needs of our partner organizations and colleagues youth workers, leaders and trainers and support them in development of competencies needed for the development of high-quality inclusive projects under the Erasmus+ program, first of all, activities within Key Action 1 (training and youth exchanges). the purpose of this project is to support capacity building of partner organizations and provide needed knowledge and support the development of competences of youth workers/leaders/trainers related to project management within theErasmus+ program, with the accent of development of inclusive projects and providing more mobility and learning opportunities for young people.

For the time being AGD is responsible of implementing two big European Projects :
1-Strategic Partnership in the field of Youth (Entrepreneurship To Empower ENTEM)
"Entrepreneurship to Empower" (ENTEM) addresses the identification of existing best practices and the development of support schemes for the transmission of attitudes, skills and competences of Social Entrepreneurship to disadvantaged young people (NEETs) in partner countries and at the European level.
The project objectives will be achieved by exchange of ideas, practices and knowledge between the partners and joint work in the elaboration of 3 educational modules as following:
1. Personal Empowerment –an educational module which will seek to accompany youngsters on a self-development path and will cover the following subjects - What is a personal empowerment, developing a personal vision, setting personal goals, planning personal development, job employability, entrepreneurial employability
2. Community surrounding – an educational module which will seek to make youngsters aware about their wider surroundings, foster connections and increase awareness on how they can relate to their communities through social initiatives.
3. Social enterprise– an educational module which seeks to develop youngster’s knowledge and skills in the development social innovation activities within their communities.
2-Training of Trainers under Erasmus Youth Mobilities:
AIM of this project is to support capacity building of partner organizations through professional development of youth workers, youth leaders and trainers in the field of dialogue facilitation with multicultural groups.
In addition AGD is preparing two major strategic partnerships in the field of Adult education and VET, which aims to dialogue among European Organizations regarding Citizenship issues, the second one is to empower migrant females in 6 European countries to create their own start up business related to sustainable food industries.

"Interculturando "
Objective to develop activities around the Book and literature

APL library of +/- 7,000 books

Refugibrary in Interaction

The Group of Seniors
Started in 2014, this is a project aimed at promoting the participation of seniors in various activities concerning them, in particular those in which the APL is a partner (“Café des Ages”, “Kino mat Häerz”)

Café des Rencontres
The project of this group is the inclusion of senior migrants in Luxembourg society either through internal meetings, or through external visits and other activities. The goal is to meet, to help each other, to share life experiences.

- Participation à différentes manifestations culturelles( comme le festival de l’immigration festival des cultures, etc...)et enrichissement du paysage associatif Luxembourgeois avec une présence tunisienne remarquée. - Lancer un projet de micro crédits pour les zones isolées en Tunisie. - Promouvoir l'art tunisien et venir en aide à la jeunesse révolutionnaire en lui offrant le soutien et cadre nécessaires pour exprimer son talent.

Despite the ALA was registered at the beginning of 2016 but the initiative group started its activities already in 2014 when the 3 of the representatives of the Armenian community in Luxembourg participated in the “No hate speech” campaign of the Council of Europe. As a follow-up idea, the initiative group of the organisation implemented a raising awareness campaign on combating hate speech. The organisation started several workshops on intercultural learning in the frame of which representatives of the different cultural, language, national and religious communities of Luxembourg had an opportunity to present the singularities of their cultures and try to find commonalities with the others. Since the initiative group of the organisation consists of youth workers, trainers of human rights education and intercultural learning specialists, ALA develops its methodological toolbox for the realization of Intercultural Learning activities and has developed several exercises, handouts, presentations, simulations, role-plays and other tools for intercultural, inter-faith and other types of activities.

Some of the previous projects:
“InFormalBasic Course” long-term training course (2018)
The main aim of the training course was the integration of a non-formal education approach to the formal education system for youth empowerment at the local level. It was an attempt to use non-formal education (NFE) to build a productive co-working platform for educators coming from formal education and the youth field. This training course was the third edition of “InFormal” project. Its idea was developed due to the experience and learning outcomes of the first 2 versions of InFormal and it was adjusted to the feedback and evaluation of the participants as well as general assessment by the project team.

“CommunicART” long term project (2019)
The main aim of the long term project CommunicART was to foster non-violent communication in the educational process addressing current challenges such as intercultural dialogue in the work with people coming from rural areas or preventing the radicalization of young people through music and drama as effective tools.

Facilitation Guide long term project (2019)

This long term training course was focused on building on facilitation skills targeting all types of educators working in the formal or non-formal educational sphere. Facilitation skills are often taken or educators have to learn them by practice, often instinctively. However, facilitation is an essential generic skill and it is hard to overestimate the importance of it in the group (learning) process. This long-term course was an attempt to give a structured approach to the art of facilitation among educators.

“WomInPower” long term project (2019-2021)

The aim of project "WomInPower” is the empowerment of on different levels: at the individual level, to support the creation of their autonomy and economic independence, and on the social level, to promote their equal access to political, social power and to the power enabling the forming of opinion. We are sure that the process of empowerment should be started by the youth workers and our project idea is to support them in this. The project is aimed to promote young women entrepreneurship by empowering youth workers from different countries with project development and implementation competencies.

ARTinclusive long term project (2019-2021)

Human rights practitioners prove that theatre is used as a powerful tool in human rights work and theatre exercises and tools have been particularly useful for groups and communities that are looking to solve their problems. Yet, despite this, one of the biggest "minority" groups of our world, people with special needs are limited in their possibilities to use this powerful tool. The idea of the project is to provide a space for youth workers to experience, exchange and develop new methodologies for implementing activities in the local reality for the inclusion of people with special needs by using theatre and performance arts. We have realized that even those who involve young people with special needs in their training courses or local activities never asked themselves such questions: How inclusive can we be in our creativity? Creative activities and self-expression can so often seem off-limits to many people – and this includes the world of theatre equally.

Événements culturels, rencontres culturelles, expositions