Von Liebig Str. 20
53359 Rheinbach
Germany
- Youth and education
"Intercultural Youth Dialogue Association e.V." (IYDA) was established by a group of highly motivated Multicultural Teams, IYDA is recognized as a Migrant organization from their sister NGO IYDA Egypt established 9 years ago, IYDA has risen to a well-established organization, registered as a non-profit, non-governmental organization.
IYDA is a non-profit association that is a member or associated member of 30 international networks (4 of them are EU networks: Mine Veganti, Comparative Research Network, NGO Nest Berlin, Euro NET).IYDAe.V has 8 people making up its team, 6 employees, and 2 volunteers working in his office located in Rheinbach, Germany. The currently budgetary provisions for 2020 is about 250, 000 Euros for staffers and administrative related expenses including specific project-based funding. The sources of funding are from the European Union and association working in the field of youth mobility and strategic partnership project management.
IYDA e.V is one of the founders of Euromedable Youth Network, one of the biggest networks of youth councils in Europe to gather European organizations and youth councils and south Mediterranean organizations and youth councils. We have over 40 partner organizations in 22 different countries in Europe.
IYDAe.V gives to children, young people, and adults these services:
- information and project development center
- organization of training courses, exchanges and cultural, artistic or sport activities
- sector study, research
- counseling, crisis support, and prevention
- e-learning, networking, partnerships, training courses and workshops
- publications, newspapers and web sites
IYDAe.v is working towards many developmental issues, such as integration of refuges, Sustainable Development Goals SDGs, as well as European megatrends and societal challenges, we are achieving our objectives through Youth Exchanges, enforcing Training Courses and local and international workshops, due to our existence as part of University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein Sieg's community for running our operational office, IYDA trying to be a platform for students as well Young people enabling them to understand the intercultural differences and comprehending it as an important tool for self-development.
The Association co-operates with many public Administrations with which it has particular agreements for the diffusion of juvenile and adults’ activities and helps all juvenile organizations and any other type of organization to realize European programs.
IYDAe.v 's mission is to promote peace among fellow nation’s key competencies in terms of intercultural understanding through youth participation and civic education.
We believe in the essential value of “cultural diversity” and are convinced that intercultural understanding is a key condition for a more peaceful world.
Our main objective is to promote peace and mutual understanding through an international exchange program for the youth, and intercultural dialogue in order to strengthen the importance of human rights among the German community and throughout the world.
IYDA has a wide experience in the youth field and owns permanent and highly qualified facilities for training courses, meetings, apprenticeships, workshops, youth exchanges or initiatives, etc. with different skills: its facilities, together with the staff’s skills, allow to always meet the stated goals.
Partnerships with organizations all over the world regarding any co-operations in different fields of culture exchange, community services, minority, and refugees’ crisis. IYDA applies short time programs either inside or outside Germany for the two different « categories «youth exchanges» or «Training courses» through Key Action one or Two.
We have a focus of helping migrants and refugees through our projects whether it’s local or national or European as we had a very important role through our participation in projects such as project HOME which was held in Luxembourg study visits to showcase how they reintegrate them into society and how they help them with languages.
Moreover, IYDA develops «internships » programs will the co-operations with organizations and companies in most of the European countries, ex (European countries, caucus, and south Mediterranean countries). We aim at reinforcing the dialogue of understanding and inclusion within the sphere of youth, contributing to a more inclusive society.
In the "Journey to Peace" program, and during workshops, We easily managed on how to teach the participants about conflict management and how to organize a debate for a better outcome and knowing more about the intercultural mix and exchange of ideas smoothly and safely.
Its staff comes from different educational backgrounds and fields of study, such as Engineering, youth in action, media, human rights, European citizenship, minority-majority relationship, Marketing, Public Relations, Project Management, etc. All of them, during the year, take part in several training courses, at local and European level, based on non-formal education to improve their skills and competences as mentors and facilitators.
We focus on our activities on a long-lasting experience about European project management, promotion of social inclusion of disadvantaged people and sharing skills, and best practices.
Finally, IYDA gets itself unique by mainly focusing on the « Culture exchange, minorities and youth engagement» concept, and the methodology of applying this aspect at the organization takes place by enhancing the dialogue for any conflict resolution in the cultural differences between nations.
IYDAe.V is working towards many developmental issues, such as the integration of refugees, the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as focusing on European megatrends and societal challenges.
We are achieving our objectives through Youth Exchanges, enforcing Training Courses, and local/international workshops.
IYDAe.V regularly organizes events, training, seminars on leadership and communication skills as well as international exchange programs in order to spread its ideas to as many societies and people as possible, and to sustain the concept of equal chances among youth, also to promote women's role and enhancing gender equality.
By doing so, IYDAe.v will contribute to the promotion of the ALF objectives among partners, by offering :
- new opportunities to connect and network with ALF partners,
- area of expertise
- introductions and ideas to improve on the projects they are working on,
IYDAe.V will be acknowledged as a resource, connector, and trusted source.
Being part of a network like ALF will allow us to benefit from various advantages and interests. Joining a structure intended to bring together a large number of NGOs with a global approach to developing the performance and potential of its projects, will also allow us to improve our functioning.
ALF allows exchanges between "the colleagues of development", to benefit from their know-how and experience. In addition, it is an opportunity to expand our network, to develop our skills and our projects. Moreover, whether it is oriented towards exchanges or rather promotes the sharing of skills, the ALF network continues to interest more and more to strengthen the work of NGOs, more and more aware of the need to work on their strategy and their posture.
The ALF network plays a very interesting role, for example, that of bringing together project leaders and partners. Our motivation to join this network is focused on networking and the concept of collaborative work.