C. Sant Agustí, 3-5. Baixos
08012 Barcelona
Barcelona ( Catalunya)
Spain
- Youth and education
The Fundació Kontrast was created in 2001 with the aim to collaborate for the sustainable development of the Third World.
To achieve this aim, a group of companies and professionals joined forces and resources to create the foundation.
The main objective of FK is to create and maximize activities focusing on the promotion of the social, economical and cultural development of the disadvantaged collectives of the Third World. Thus, the FK aims to be a platform for ideas and proposals, oriented to improve the ways of cooperation between collectives and territories.
Therefore, the FK gathers companies and professionals in order to provide their participation in the activities of the organization so it can achieve a bigger social impact. With the creation of a common space for dialogue in which converge the different initiatives and contributions, its intended to achieve greater efficacy than would be obtained individually.
“The Third Cycle Students”:
This program aims to bring closer cultures, helping developing countries by financing the stay of brilliant students without means in Spanish universities, in order to carry out third cycle studies (master’s degree or postgraduate). The selected students, besides of attending to those studies, will acquire personal experience, that will be able to transfer to their own countries once they return, favoring its development.
After two years of preparation, the program was implemented for the first time in 2011, with the arrival of the first student that came from the Caddi Ayyad University, in Marrakech. He coursed the master degree in Event Management –Business tourism of the EUTDH from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
The Fundació Kontrast can contribute as an active part of the Network, spreading its objectives and trying to connect more organizations to the Network in order to increase its membership.
In order to do so, the FK’s webpage will have a URL link to the Anna Lindh Foundation web page. Besides, the FK has a large database of Spanish and Catalan civil society organizations (NGO’s, Foundations and charities) and Fundació Kontrast is going to spread the Anna Lindh Foundationd and Fundació Kontrast collaboration to all of them.
The Fundació Kontrast aims to link our organization to ALF network because one of our main priorities is to find potential partners in order to keep its main program, as well as other organizations that focus on the same field, in order to exchange experience and line works that can improve the “TCS” program.