Education Culture Humanitarian Environment Sustainable development International exchange programs

Spaces Without Violence Project, a project downloaded in partnership with Abdelmalek Al-Saadi University. The Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Program was downloaded in partnership with the Moroccan Red Crescent Foundation and the Academy of Education and Training in the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region

For us, democracy isn’t just a word in the dictionary. It’s a commitment to action. Sometimes it takes courage and vision to break from business-as-usual and stand up for the common good. Because of this, some people consider us everyday heroes – we consider ourselves active citizens. *** European Democracy Youth Network – Berlin Declaration We, the members of the European Democracy Youth Network (EDYN) from: The Republic of Albania, Republic of Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Republic of Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Bulgaria, Republic of Estonia, Georgia, Republic of Kosovo, Republic of Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Republic of North Macedonia, Republic of Poland, Republic of Serbia, Ukraine in the EDYN Democracy Summit convened in Berlin, Germany on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall: Expressing our common adherence to the values of liberty, justice, and equality; Reaffirming our commitment to promote greater civic and political youth leadership in Europe, and; Hereby commit to: Ensure ACCOUNTABILITY is reflected in our conduct as individuals and built into our organizational processes; Principles of ANTI-EXTREMISM, opposing ideologies that seeks to undermine democratic values in society at-large through our words and actions; Work towards affecting political and social change through CONSTRUCTIVE POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT, good-faith dialogue, and debate with a diverse range of viewpoints; Conduct ourselves and our organization’s operations with ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS and consideration for principles of sustainability; Display ETHICAL BEHAVIOR – honesty, fairness, and dignity; Safeguard INCLUSION and equal opportunity for every individual, regardless of gender, disability, national or ethnic origin, religious beliefs or political orientation; Cultivate a MERITOCRACY of ideas in our personal and professional communities; Treat every individual with RESPECT and consideration for their feelings, desires, rights, and traditions; Foster SOLIDARITY and mutual support among youth committed to democratic principles; and Advocate for TRANSPARENCY, openness, and information-sharing in decision-making processes and collaborative work. Acknowledging our network’s geographic, vocational, and political diversity, we share individual responsibility for the health of democracy in each of our countries. We commit to building, sustaining, and reforming democratic institutions through greater youth participation and leadership, by Providing members with practical professional development and skills-building; Encouraging the exchange of best practices and experience through people-to-people linkages across member countries and between generations; Amplifying narratives around democracy’s impact on citizens’ day-to-day lives; Leveraging local youth networks in member-driven initiatives; Collaborating with organizations that share EDYN’s values and commitment to youth leadership, and; Advocating for the inclusion of youth voices in policy development processes at the local, national, and international level.

We are active in the areas of Peace Education, Environmental Education, Digital Education, and Civic Education.

We organise training courses, workshops, and youth exchanges. We are also planning to organise conferences soon once the pandemic situation improved and allows.

Currently, we are running 5 projects as the main coordinator and we are a partner in several projects with many other youth NGOs.
Two of our ongoing projects focus on Social Peacebuilding as a tool to enhance youth civic participation and one project focuses on policymaking and structured dialogue to enhance youth democratic participation. In addition, we have a project on environment and climate change and another one on the utilisation of board games as an alternative tool for youth inclusion.

During the years, Rondine developed different projects for Italian schools and international youth, aimed at fostering dialogue, conflict transformation, and exchange through education. Here are some of the most relevant projects (ongoing and completed).
The project that gave rise and inspiration to Rondine is the Studentato Internazionale – World House. It hosts young people coming from countries that are the scene of armed conflicts or post-conflict and helps them to discover the human being in their enemy, through the difficult and surprising effort that comes from living together daily. The program is structured in 4 areas: academic education, conflict transformation training, civic engagement, daily life. At the end of the two years, the youth of the World House has the tools to promote action and develop projects in their own countries and to be leaders in contexts characterized by transformation, high complexity, and rooted conflicts.
The Quarto Anno Rondine is a formative and educational opportunity officially recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities, and Research as an experimental course in educational innovation. It is designed for students from all over Italy from high schools who want to attend their fourth year (Italian high school is divided into five years) in an international environment such as the Citadel of Peace. The Rondine Method is applied to the education of teenagers who are about to face one of the most important conflicts of their lives: searching for their identity, in the passage from childhood to adulthood. They undertake a path of development and self-awareness, to become leaders and agents of real change in their territories, as active citizens. Rondine is currently experimenting with the adaptation of the “Quarto Anno” project in Italian public schools, training teachers and tutors to locally apply the Rondine Method, and support students. The pilot project is being implemented in Arezzo, planning further development in other Italian areas in 2022.
“Mediterranean: Frontier of Peace, Education, and Reconciliation” is a 2-year higher education program offered to young professionals from different Mediterranean countries, characterized by tensions or situations of conflict, who will access a course of higher education. The study program includes three modules: design of social, cultural, and research projects; conflict transformation and the Rondine Method; leadership and strategy skills. After the first year in Rondine, professionals return to their countries of origin with adequate skills to manage socio-cultural changes, initiate cooperation interventions, plan peacebuilding and social enterprise initiatives. They implement their projects, in partnership with local civil society organizations. The project was selected to be showcased at the Paris Peace Forum (November 2021) as an innovative solution to face global challenges, especially in terms of fighting the socio-cultural consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Upon the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked Rondine Cittadella della Pace to represent Italy at the United Nations with its experience of “a tangible example offering a fresh start on the vast topic of human rights, which today represent an urgent challenge for the entire planet”. Rondine rose to this challenge by launching a three-year global campaign, Leaders for Peace. The core element of this campaign is an Appeal, a text written by Rondine’s students and alumni, in which the Member States of the United Nations are asked to take a practical step towards training young leaders for peace, equipped with the skills to positively transform conflict situations around the world. The global Leaders for Peace campaign is Rondine Cittadella della Pace’s unique commitment to contribute directly, within a few years, to affirm a new culture of human rights, by training leaders for peace and enabling citizens all over the world to transform conflicts positively, by integrating training in the Rondine Method with education on human rights.
The project “Una nuova classe dirigente per la Sponda Sud del Mediterraneo” (A new leadership for the Southern shore of the Mediterranean) is an international cooperation process undertaken by Rondine in 2012 after the events of the so-called Arab Spring. It aimed to help the new generations from the South Mediterranean to understand the current transformation processes and actively participate in the phase of historical changes their countries were going through. The project is structured in local educational programs, implemented in 2012, 2013, and 2014 at the Citadel of Peace and the Centro per la Formazione alla Solidarietà Internazionale di Trento (Centre for the Education to International Solidarity of Trento). Through the application of the Rondine Method, fifty young people from the Middle East and North Africa have been trained to become agents of change. The project finished in April 2016 in Trento with the International Symposium “Sponda Sud. Nuove prospettive per il Mediterraneo” (South Shore. New perspectives for the Mediterranean).

- Seminars for the members
- Environnement activities : beach cleaning,..

The organisation works on a number of programmes through publishing research papers and holding workshops and seminars:

First: The Freedom of Speech and Expression Programme
The programme seeks to create opportunities for direct communication between policy makers and target groups (by creating a link between the two parties).

Second: Integrity and Transparency Programme
The programme seeks to promote the principles of integrity, transparency and responsibility to achieve the proposed objectives and policies to combat corruption.

Third: Counter-terrorism Watch Program
The Counter-Terrorism Watch seeks to monitor, follow up and confront extremist ideas and ideologies adopted by terrorist groups of all kinds. The programme seeks to use the social networking site to create awareness about terrorist issues.

Fourth: The Egyptians Abroad Programme
The programme works to document all violations and problems faced by Egyptians in Arab and European countries and the United States of America.

Recent projects:
BY LEAP - "Development of the Youth Entrepreneurial Mentality" December 2021 - August 2022, funded by the European Union
STEM - phase I "STEM classroom - the path to knowledge, science and innovation" September 2021 - December 2022" - donation of Republic of Croatia
ENTREPRENEURSHIP - "Young entrepreneurs - agents of change in the digital age" - funded by US Embassy july 2020 -July 2021
ERASMUS+ "Living diversity 2019" and "Living diversity 2020"

Birth Forward stands as an ambassador for parents wishing to make autonomous choices about their own and their families welfare throughout the full cycle of creating a family. We aim to provide advocacy, support and education for families and professionals in regards to the various stages of planning, creating and growing a family in Cyprus. Baby Buddy

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