Graines de Paix

National Network
Lebanon
Address

99 Bd Raspail
Graines de Paix, rue Cornavin 11
75006 Paris
France

Telephone
+41 79 446 1778
E-Mail
delia.mamon@grainesdepaix.org
Website
http://www.grainesdepaix.org
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2005
Fields of Activity
  1. Environment/Sustainable development
  2. Human rights
  3. International/Cultural relations
  4. Others
  5. Youth and education
General Information
Focus We are an international NGO that develops education solutions for sustainable peace. Our expertise is in merging creatively quality education pedagogies based on psychosocial skills and culture of peace-based values and competencies for preventing violence and radicalization. Structure Headquarters: an association employing 12+ employees + interns/volunteers, Geneva, Switzerland. Graines de Paix - France, a mainly volunteer-based partner association. Budget 1.2-1.6 M p.a. Funding Public institutions, Private foundations, private donors, revenue-generating activities. Concrete projects 1. Tailored training programmes for education hierarchies (Counsellors, Inspectors, Teachers, School managers) (Ivory Coast (since 2012), Lebanon, African countries (in the making) 2. Educational resources    --- Growing up in peace Collection (for school classes of children aged 4-12)    --- Growing up together (in development)    (In French, to be culturally-adapted and translated into Arabic and English now) 3. Education counselling for preventing violence Main partners Education Ministries, public and private schools, youth centres.
Mission and Objectives

 
Vision:
 

Main Projects / Activities

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Contact (1) Full Name
Delia Mamon
Job Title
President of Graines de Paix (intl), VP of Graines de Paix - France
Head of the organisation
Delia Mamon
Contact (2) Full Name
Oumar Baldet
Job Title (2)
Director, International programmes

Arabic Culture Forum

National Network
Lithuania
Address

Nugaletoju g. 1 J
10105 Vilnius
Lithuania

Telephone
+37061337566
E-Mail
info@arabicforum.lt
E-Mail (2)
maritana.larbi@gmail.com
Website
http://www.arabicforum.lt
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2016
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. Gender
  4. Heritage
  5. Human rights
  6. International/Cultural relations
  7. Media
  8. Research
  9. Youth and education
General Information
Arab culture forum is a platform for building a foundation for mutual cooperation and exchanging knowledge about Arabic culture.
Mission and Objectives

Our goal is to develop a peaceful cultural dialogue by promoting a critical approach to the opinions and stereotypes formed in the public space. We aim to change viewing perspectives and show a different face of Middle East, that is, in fact,  colourful, aesthetic and greatly unique. Our goal will be achieved through various aesthetic, visual and written means such as the dissemination of arabic literature, various educational programmes, language courses, exhibitions of famous artists from the Arab world, travel impressions and other discoveries. At the same time, we will provide an opportunity for the people from Arab countries to understand the Western world and , more specifically us – Lithuanians, better. So we join our efforts to contribute to a development of a global, peaceful and bright world

Main Projects / Activities

Youth education, exhibitions, literature events, integration, academic events

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

We can promote cutural, interactive, educational activities by fostering mutual communication, education and integration of peope from Arab countries.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

To exchange ideas and experience, to organize common events and to promote cultural cooperation.

Contact (1) Full Name
Maritana Larbi
Job Title
Director
Head of the organisation
Maritana Larbi

Ungdoms och samhällsarbete, Mölndal Stad (Youth & community Work - Mölndal City)

National Network
Sweden
Address

Gamla torget 43
Mölndal
Sweden

Telephone
0046704 67 78 14
E-Mail
johanna.nygren@molndal.se
Organisation Type
Local/Regional Authority
Year of Establishment
1950
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Gender
  3. Human rights
  4. International/Cultural relations
  5. Media
  6. Youth and education
General Information
The unit of Community work lies under the Culture and Leisure department. We are a unit consisting of 10 people with different specialities.  We are nine people hired at the unit Community work; four working for community based developement, two working with public health, two with youth influence and one with international projects/Eurodesk.  We cooperate in a lot of different issues and projects and we think that our common experiences and knowledge strenthens our unit. Adding to the team is our manager with former head executive experience of the regional "Rädda Barnen" (Save the Children) foundation.
Mission and Objectives

Our mission and objectives - Youth and community work unit - Culture and leisure department, City of Mölndal.

Increased security and well-being in Mölndal

Increase youth's overall experience of influence in the city
To reach these objectives we work with sustainability, co-creation, inclusion and democracy-issues in all our acitivities. At our six youth centers we daily work to strengthen the youth to be independent and active in the community, through group activities, workshops and discussions.
Except for working within our own department we want to further our cooperation and work together with other departments in the city as well as associations and the civil society. We want to develop the international perspective in the city and find collaborations community overrun. 
 

Main Projects / Activities

Our main projects and activities consists of: 

4 coordinators that work with Community based development acording to the area with projects like: Residential cultivation, women's empowerment, integration, young people giving tech and phone support to elderly, safety tours

Development and establishment of youth council where we work with democracy issues and development of the youth policy in the city.

HBTQ group for youth that works with tolerans and inclusion

Public health issues concerning dug and alchol prevention, mental health issues, integration, unvoluntary solitude and exclusion, parents support and human rights.

Eurodesk / International work- We work with EVS because we can offer informal and non-formal learning opportunities for the volunteers, which often lead to new or better jobs, along with personal and social development. We also believe that hosting volunteers in our organisation is a great enrichment to our activities on many levels. When volunteers are hosted in the youth centers we see that the youngsters grow in an intercultural aspect in the interaction with the volunteers. 

Contact (1) Full Name
Johanna Nygren
Job Title
International Coordinator
Head of the organisation
Mikael Olow
Contact (2) Full Name
Åsa Banic Pedersen
Job Title (2)
Head of community work

C:ntact

National Network
Denmark
Address

Edisonsvej 10
1858 Frederiksberg
Denmark

Telephone
20437210
Telephone (other)
26312053
E-Mail
hartmann@contact.dk
E-Mail (2)
naghmeh@contact.dk
Mobile Phone
20437210
Mobile Phone (other)
26312053
Website
http://www.contact.dk/
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
2005
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. Gender
  4. International/Cultural relations
  5. Media
  6. Youth and education
General Information
C:NTACT is an independent theatre and media organisation dedicated to social and cultural integration and education, based at the Edison stage in Copenhagen, Denmark. Every year C:NTACT launches stage-, film-, radio- and journalistic productions in Denmark and elsewhere. Our core objective is to provide a platform for living encounters between people with different backgrounds in order to create dialogue and reconciliation. Our principal task is to nurture and encourage the ability to communicate thoughts, dreams, ideas, and visions. C:NTACT offers a wide variety of production processes and workshops – primarily for and with young people. Our target groups cooperate with our professional artists, teachers, and directors who assist them in creating and developing artistic products for large audiences. Through theatre, film, radio and other media C:NTACT creates intercultural encounters between people who otherwise would not have met. C:NTACT’s starting point is always the personal story rising from each individual’s own reality. C:NTACT believes that our personal stories bind us together as human beings. We constantly define and reflect the world around us through our stories. The personal story offers possible worlds to us; when we relate our stories, we present our perspective on the world. Consequently, our young participants have a close personal relation to the artistic material, at the same time gaining experience and awareness of artistic modes of expression, such as theater and film. The participants are met at eye level – but they are also met with demands. Demands are highly significant in every artistic process which – besides learning basic methods and techniques – is also about being able to cooperate and develop a common project. C:NTACT believes that insight into the various techniques, methods, and frames of reference can be instrumental in creating greater understanding and tolerance – and we believe that our stories are capable of constituting a platform for developing “the common third”. Likewise, we believe in the broad concept of culture; that culture goes way beyond mere ethnicity and national borders. When working with theatre cooperations, we usually follow three steps: RECRUITMENT: Together, we gather a group of participants who represent different social backgrounds. The project will typically be given a headline signalling a current social issue. WORKSHOPS: The participants are taught various tools to tell and share their own stories. Together with professional artists and each other, they cooperate to bring a common vision into being. PRODUCTION: The project ends with a stage performance or documentary film that can be shown to a broader audience, who can mirror their own reality to what is presented on stage. Contact have 5 employed and 20 partners, main funding is private funding and goverment and municipality funding, in Denmark and abroad. 7 to 12 million DKR is C:ntact budgetary ressources in a year.
Mission and Objectives

C:NTACT is an independent theatre and media organisation dedicated to social and cultural integration and education, based at the Edison stage in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Every year C:NTACT launches stage-, film-, radio- and journalistic productions in Denmark and elsewhere. Our core objective is to provide a platform for living encounters between people with different backgrounds in order to create dialogue and reconciliation. Our principal task is to nurture and encourage the ability to communicate thoughts, dreams, ideas, and visions.
 

Main Projects / Activities

C:NTACT is an independent theatre and media organisation dedicated to social and cultural integration and education, based at the Edison stage in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Every year C:NTACT launches stage-, film-, radio- and journalistic productions in Denmark and elsewhere. Our core objective is to provide a platform for living encounters between people with different backgrounds in order to create dialogue and reconciliation. Our principal task is to nurture and encourage the ability to communicate thoughts, dreams, ideas, and visions.
C:NTACT always works with local theatre professionals and social organisations to set a theme relevant to the local audience they want to address, and to engage people in society who do not normally find themselves on stage––but have every right to stand there. In every single country we have visited during the years, we have entered profound partnerships with local talents and producers with whom we develop our method. We never not just arrive with a ready-made concept. Instead, we learn from new colleagues and participants––every time.
Over the years, we have worked with many organisations: NAKIPELO, Kharkiv Crisis Infocenter (Ukraine), Ma3mal 612 Think Factory (Jordan), Jordanian Women’s Union (Jordan), Hillbrow Theatre (South Africa), Irbid Art Theatre Troupe (Jordan), MedeArt (Jordan), Hala for Art Production (Egypten), NAYA for Training and Community Development (Jordan), ActionAid, ActionAid Regional Invitiative (Jordan), Community Development Committee (Jordan), Palīdzēsim (Latvia), The Danish Cultural Institute in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (Latvia).

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

By sharing methods, knowledge and network.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

Because we work internationally and in Denmark with intercultural, intersectional understanding, and would love new friends and new inspiration.

Contact (1) Full Name
Henrik Hartmann
Job Title
CCO/ kreativ direktør
Head of the organisation
Henrik Hartmann
Contact (2) Full Name
Mahmoudi Kashani
Job Title (2)
projektleder

Bargad Org.

National Network
Cyprus
Address

John kennedy road building # 4 flat # 18, nicosia
New Multan, Multan. Pakistan
1087 Nicosia
Cyprus

Telephone
00357-96-885952
E-Mail
azeemrasheed24@yahoo.com
Mobile Phone
00357-96-885953
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1997
Fields of Activity
  1. Gender
  2. Human rights
  3. Youth and education
General Information
I had work with different Organisations in Pakistan. Now i am in cyprus at nicosia. I want to do work with organisation. I have 5 year experience on Education survey, Human Rights, child abuse, youth engagement, peace and different more. Now i am willing to join you. Can your organization offer me job.  Thank you.
Mission and Objectives

My mission about to sustainable society where i libe.
my objects about youth engagement, spread peace, confilict management, increase litracy rate, awarence about children rights, democracy awarence.

Main Projects / Activities

Main project where i can fully focus on education, increase litracy rate, Humanity and youth engagement.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

As i told you that i have 5 year experience with different organizations with including International and national organizations. I have personally network in my country and i know about main issues of my country. If you provide me platform then i can spread your network. I will tell you about issues of my country and their solutions with areas. In this way i can provide a team in my country  for work. 

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

I have my 5 year expierence in NGOs in Pakistan. But now i am in cyprus. I want to to do work here. I search and find ALF i thought its good platform for do work in society. This playform where i can increase my knowledge, my exposure & my networking. I can avail opportunity. I will try to to best of my work. And you will never disappoint by me. Thank you.

Contact (1) Full Name
M.Azeem Rasheed
Job Title
District Coordinator
Head of the organisation
Sabeeha Shaheen

Artistes Sans Frontieres

National Network
Tunisia
Address

imm saida , App 2 , ceinture Bourguiba Route Ain - Afrane (coworking space coart)
3003 Sfax
Tunisia

Telephone
+216 24 33 13 23 21624331323
Telephone (other)
+216 21 67 12 76
E-Mail
artistes.sans.frontieres.tn@gmail.com
E-Mail (2)
malek.maazoun@gmail.com
Mobile Phone (other)
+21624331323
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2016
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. International/Cultural relations
  3. Media
  4. Others
  5. Research
  6. Youth and education
General Information

Artistes Sans Frontières – Tunisie is a cultural association that consists of an executive board of four members and an employee, as well as volunteers. We are sustained by cotizations from the executive team, as well as donations from various organizations and revenue from the organized events. Our partners can be divided between the four stages of our artistic projects: formation (Evora Musical School, Cesaria Training) creation (Nostalgia Band), production (Studio FX) and diffusion (Tunivisions), but we also collaborate with international brands that support our activities (Institut Francais, Hard Rock Cafe, Goethe Institut and Ministry of Cultural Affaires).

Mission and Objectives

Artistes Sans Frontières – Tunisie is a team of talented youths whose mission is to democratize local people's access to world culture with a low budget. Our main target is young people who are open to creative intercultural events, and our objectives include bringing such forms of artistic expression closer to the people of Sfax, and hopefully extend the concept all through Tunisia in the years that follow.

Main Projects / Activities

Our association works with international artists and has been organizing cultural exchanges since 2012. At this time, we have made musical residency activities with our partners in Germany (Mano Muzik Festival) and France (AixQui, Poitiers) and we would like to enlarge our network and diversify our projects. The residency program aims to be a creative exchange between Tunisia and a foreign country. Our most recent project aims to take our mission one step further by creating the Cultural Container co-working space that will make Sfax an international capital of culture. We were inspired by improvised spaces in developing countries, and now we want to make the ultimate space for artistic expression, using shipping containers - this way we can optimize the production costs of events, while also centralizing and sharing the skills and expertise of the main cultural actors (organizers, freelancers, and artists). You can find links to some of our projects below: Production in Tunisia: https://youtu.be/Z-iAfdR0UXM?list=PLTpJtef-a-wpXMHWH7joHbxNIH8Ivm-iI Reportage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI7cTIbtHZg Production in France: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiGxyhw2Mr8

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

With the musical residencies and exchanges we organize, we try to get closer to our goal of democratizing the access to world culture for both the people of Sfax and their foreign counterparts. Moreover, we wish to change Tunisia’s unequal distribution of artistic events by creating the Cultural Container, a co-working space inspired by improvised spaces in developing countries, that should become the ultimate space for artistic expression. Using shipping containers, we can achieve the same effect as the great cultural spaces of the world with a low budget and make the people of Sfax feel like real citizens of the world.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We believe our activities are ideally in line with the mission of Anna Lindh, and we feel confident that a collaborative relationship would allow us to centralize the resources, talent and skill of both our association and the foundation and can greatly benefit the national Network, as well as our target audience. Together we can improve social understanding between the corners of the Mediterranian and discover the diversity, but also the shared traits of our complex cultures.

Contact (1) Full Name
Melek Maazoun
Job Title
President
Head of the organisation
Melek Maazoun
Contact (2) Full Name
Helmi Kobbi
Job Title (2)
secretaire général

SIETAR Austria

National Network
Austria
Address

Kolschitzkygasse 12
1040 Wien
Austria

Telephone
+43 664 430 4037
E-Mail
info@sietar.at
E-Mail (2)
barbara.covarrubias@sietar.at
E-Mail (3)
saskia.lackner@sietar.at
Website
http://www.sietar.at
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2010
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
  2. Research
General Information
SIETAR  Austria  is  a  non-profit  organization  and  supported  by  a  Board  of  Directors  working  on  a voluntary   basis.   All   board   members   are   experts   in   the   intercultural   field,   or   international management area and have been engaged for several years with the relevant questions of the field. We provide activities and events on current topics and thus interlock various fields. SIETAR  Austria  is  a  networking  platform,  a  scientific  forum  and  a  facilitator  for  the  intercultural community in Austria and beyond. SIETAR  Austria  is  an  active  member  of  SIETAR  Global  and  SIETAR  Europa, the  biggest  association fostering   awareness   for   intercultural   subjects   in   research,   politics,   economy   and education worldwide.
Mission and Objectives

SIETAR  Austria  aims  to  enhance and promote intercultural awareness and understanding. We support the research and development of new training methods and tools for education, business and society
Our  members  work  as  consultants,  trainers,  coaches,  researchers,  of  any  kind  of  topics  or work  in organisations and public or social services.
Our goal is to improve the cooperation and coexistence of people with diverse cultural backgrounds..
Here is how we’re carrying out our mission in practical terms:

Activities

Publications

Member Benefits

Main Projects / Activities

SIETAR Austria offers  regular  events  like  Culture  Talks,  workshops,  conferences  and  panel  discussions  and  of course  publications.  Our  topics  range  from  intercultural  management,  international  business  to communication and cooperation topics in global business. Our  Workshops  are  held  from  top  national  and  international  speakers,  so  you  get insights  from experienced colleagues from across the globe.

We  also  included  a  new  format  since 2016:    SIETAR  Austria  Culture  Senses:
here  you get  to  know  the culinary aspect of culture, so it’s a first-hand cultural experience.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

We would like to join the ALF Network in order to fostering exchange in Austria in the intercultural field and look for partners/ projects etc. We want to  enhance and promote intercultural awareness and understanding and help building a network in Austria.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We would like to join the ALF Network in order to fostering exchange in Austria in the intercultural field and look for partners/ projects etc. We want to  enhance and promote intercultural awareness and understanding and help building a network in Austria.

Contact (1) Full Name
Saskia Lackner
Job Title
Lecturer
Head of the organisation
Barbara Covarrubias
Contact (2) Full Name
Barbara Covarrubias Venegas
Job Title (2)
Researcher

Operafabriken

National Network
Sweden
Address

c/o Malkki-Guignard
Tegelgårdsgatan 32
21133 Malmö
Sweden

Telephone
0761272676
Telephone (other)
0761272676
E-Mail
leenamalkki.operafabriken@gmail.com
E-Mail (2)
leenamalkki@yahoo.fr
Mobile Phone
0761272676
Mobile Phone (other)
0761272676
Website
http://www.operafabriken.se
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2010
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
Operafabriken is a free opera group and association based in Malmö. Our goal and purpose is to create opportunities for help all generations to experience opera, in an intimate and close format, with great music and high musical and scenic quality. We want opera to spread and convey our great passion for this art form that we know can appeal to everyone. Operafabriken produces and performs operaproductions and concerts in chamber format for tour in Sweden and Europe.  
Mission and Objectives

To reach out with the art form opera to more people and to preserve the cultural heritage.

Main Projects / Activities

We have produced and performed the following :
Don Giovanni by Mozart
Romeo and Juliet (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) by Bellini
Maria Stuarda  by Donizetti
Titus by Mozart
La Gioconda by Ponchielli
Otello by Verdi

Contact (1) Full Name
Leena Malkki
Job Title
Producer and board member
Head of the organisation
Leena Malkki

individual person

National Network
Austria
Address

Penzingerstr. 115/9
1140 Wien
Austria

Telephone
0678 1215164
E-Mail
puschbarbara@gmail.com
Organisation Type
Individual Person
Year of Establishment
1990
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
  2. Religion
  3. Research
  4. Youth and education
General Information
I studied Sociology, Turkology, Philosophy and Ethnology at the University of Vienna, completing a Master’s thesis on Turkish girls in Vienna in 1991. After successfully completing a PhD thesis on the green movement in Turkey, which I submitted to the University of Vienna in 1996 and conducting several post-doc projects on women and Islam in Turkey between 1997 and 2000, I have been working on various issues related to migration movements to and through Turkey for approximately 15 years. Migration has not only shaped my personal life after graduation but has also become the main issues of my academic profile. In this context, I have been involved in several international and interdisciplinary projects.
Mission and Objectives

My main fields of research are: - women and islam - social and political change in Turkey - new social movements - migration. During the last years I mainly focused on migration issues.

Main Projects / Activities

My post-doc research on migration concentrates on five subjects: (1) German citizens in Turkey, (2) Turkey as a target country for migration, (3) migration and labor market integration of highly qualified migrants, (4) (re)migration from Germany to Turkey and (5) German-Turkish transnationalization.

Contact (1) Full Name
Barbara Pusch
Job Title
sociologist
Head of the organisation
individual person

Integrationswerkstatt / Factor Happiness Gmbh

National Network
Austria
Address

Engerthstrasse 126/2
1200 Wien
Austria

Telephone
043 677 619 880 20
E-Mail
office@integrationswerkstatt.at
Organisation Type
Private Company
Year of Establishment
2016
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
General Information
We are offering courses in the field of integration and migration focusing on information, values, laws, and skills that are useful for peacefully living together. The Integrationswerkstatt Teams has
Mission and Objectives

We are offering courses in the field of integration and migration focusing on information, values, laws, and skills that are useful for peacefully living together. The Integrationswerkstatt team embarces interculurality and diversity. Living in a diverse societey that offers freedom, peace and justice through life long education probrams is our main objective.

Main Projects / Activities

- Certified Programs : Integrationcoach, Youthcoach, Trainer with intercultural competencies
- Workshops: Gender and Diversity, Antirasism, Media competencies, Intercutural communication, Intercultural competencies, Migration and Integration
- Government funded projects: Life and Work in Austria for refugees
- intercultural salon: creating space that facilities intercultural exchange

Contact (1) Full Name
Eva Maria Riess, MA
Head of the organisation
Eva Maria Riess, MA
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