The availability of space for performing arts has been a long standing challenge in the MENA especially for independent groups.Tamasi therefore provides opportunities and ‘spaces’ as platforms for changing, challenging and dialoguing at the level of social discourse.
In doing this, we aim to increase and diversify access to performing arts with a particular focus on youth and the young generations and achieving gender balance through:
Reaching out to and engaging with underserved and marginalised communities.
Increasing the number and diversity of performances and productions in targeted countries.
Developing performances tackling current and taboo socio-economic and political issues.
Increasing access to performing arts spaces including non-traditional and public spaces.
Developing and holding training workshops for children and youth, especially in marginalised areas.
Engaging with policy makers to influence school curricula.
Holding and organising street festivals aimed at children and youth.The availability of space for performing arts has been a long standing challenge in the MENA especially for independent groups.Tamasi therefore provides opportunities and ‘spaces’ as platforms for changing, challenging and dialoguing at the level of social discourse.
In doing this, we aim to increase and diversify access to performing arts with a particular focus on youth and the young generations and achieving gender balance through:
Reaching out to and engaging with underserved and marginalised communities.
Increasing the number and diversity of performances and productions in targeted countries.
Developing performances tackling current and taboo socio-economic and political issues.
Increasing access to performing arts spaces including non-traditional and public spaces.
Developing and holding training workshops for children and youth, especially in marginalised areas.
Engaging with policy makers to influence school curricula.
Holding and organising street festivals aimed at children and youth.
Providing trainings, workshops, residencies and fellowships.
Providing targeted mentoring to burgeoning artists.
Organising, attending and hosting regional events and festivals providing opportunities for new artists to meet audience and develop their artistic skills.
Supporting joint artistic projects at the regional level.
Providing financial support to regional independent artistic organisations.
Providing artistic and managerial support to increase the capacity of independent artistic organizations at the regional level.
 

Youth Empowerment Project: With the support of Relief International, IDSC worked together with local partners to provide 6000 youth in 6 governorates in Egypt with the necessary skills to effectively communicate and contribute to their communities, as well as the ability to assume leadership at a local level. In addition, the YEP program provided youth with problem solving, critical thinking, and leadership skills necessary to take the lead in addressing challenges hindering the democratic process in their specific localities. Finally, the project also established six youth centers in six different governorates to serve as political awareness academies and created an on-line portal in which interactive training curricula pertaining to issues tackled during the project are shared
Loamet Aish - Source of Living: After the success of the first phase, this project continued in 2015 with additional approaches. Its aim was to promoting peaceful coexistence among Syrian refugees and hosting communities in Damietta, through involving community structure and stakeholders in strengthen the economic security of vulnerable households (Egyptians and Syrians) with focus on women. The project relied on the resources of the Local Community Development Organization in Damietta, the support of Terres des Hommes, UNCHR and IDSC's six years of experience in providing career guidance, job counselling and capacity building of organizations and individuals. A quality restaurant was established to provide catering services in response to the neighboring factories' demands as well as to serve a wide range of customers
United we stand, divided we fall is a long term project that aims at promoting peaceful coexistence by bringing together three community structures (civil society organizations, church and mosque). This expanded their capacity to build a culture of tolerance to address their communities’ challenges together. Funded by MEPI and implemented in three governorates namely: Cairo, Behira and Sohag.

Besides running www.yourmiddleeast.com (launched already in 2011), we are currently focusing our resources on producing a pioneering educational programme targeting high schools in Sweden. The project aims to share a more informed and nuanced perspective on contemporary issues shaping the MENA region, moving beyond what European youth tend to see in the rather static mainstream media. A new platform, published in Swedish, will be launched in 2016, including online portals for teachers and students. A printed teacher magazine will be distributed to every high school in the country. We are now starting to plan for similar efforts in other European countries where xenophobia is on the rise.

الاهتمام بالمسنين
الاهتمام بالفئات المعوزة
الاهتمام بالبيئة
الاهتمام بالمدارس القرانية

Two projects are being built this year.  The first one is about a road trip from South to North across Mediterranean sea to promote gender equality and give space to women on both mediterranean sides. This road should wear the name of Fatima.  The second one is a training program which is aimed to improve women professional insertion and participation on labor force market.  

Target groups
ITECO addresses a broad audience interested in questions of development at home and abroad, social action, North-South relations and solidarity.
To achieve maximum impact, ITECO gives priority to training intermediaries, trainers and moderators including :
Social-cultural facilitators, moderators of social movements and lifelong training, migrant organizations, youth organizations.
Workers in the social sector : social workers, teachers, staff in psycho-medico-social centers, family-planning centers.
Trainers and educational movements.
Facilitators in the sectors of cooperation, sustainable development and international solidarity (development education, peace education, environmental education, gender education and antiracism).
Method
The basic educational system consists of four integrated dimensions that enable the participants to better understand where they stand in society, how society functions, how they can act and who could be the eventual partners.
ITECO prefers to question society and to ask what can change it, than to offer simple answers for successful development.
An important part of our educational action questions the mechanisms of power and the way these are perpetuated or challenged by individuals, social groups, organizations, and cultural models. We emphasize the importance of analyzing the ways that choices, behaviors and discourses are conditioned, and the socially explainable constraints underlying spontaneous attitudes. This reveals the steps that can lead to freer, more conscious choices geared to action.
We feel that it is helpful to be aware of what determines and conditions the participants because, once they have discovered these borders, they can negotiate choices more effectively and develop criteria for taking action.
All of our educational activities relate to this simple educational system, which embodies our conditions. We identify :
A personal dimension, in which participants’ intentions and plans are determined, and the factors that influence their social determination. This is the discovery of « what I am and what I want ».
A context dimension, in which the major mechanisms working in society are discovered : the economy, politics, social groups ; and cultural determination.
An action dimension, by which people take responsibility for acting in the world.
A partnership dimension, because one cannot do social work alone. Action requires others - groups, institutions and persons. Criteria must be developed to choose alliances and the conditions for collaboration.
The educational work we do consists of integrating these four dimensions in a single process. Rather than transmitting knowledge to our target groups, we develop knowledge for action with them.
ITECO thus adheres to adult education methods based on active learning rather than the idea that learning is simply a transmission of knowledge. The tenet of these educational methods is that people learn better by becoming actors in their own training process. In this spirit, we enable participants’ experience and knowledge to play an important part, use active exercises, simulation games and analysis grids. This active and inductive educational method, symbolized by the compass we present to our trainees, helps us to reinforce civil society in the north as an agent for change in north-south relations.
Fields of action
ITECO carries out its mission by means of four educational processes :
Training.
Advice to associations and institutions in the form of educational support, monitoring and assessment.
Making the most of experience and developing a systematic methodology.
Work on partnerships and networking.
ITECO is a training centre approved by the Ministry of the French Community of Belgium as an adult education centre. ITECO is also approved as a non-governmental organisation for development education by the Belgian Ministry of development cooperation and profits from the support from the European Commission.

Community Initiative: European Territorial Cooperation Programme Greece-Bulgaria 2007-2013
Year 2012
Project title: Integrated Program for skills enhancement of human resources in fashion sectors and facilitation of employees’ mobility in the cross-border region – SKILLS IN FASHION”
Final Beneficiary: Hellenic Fashion Industry Association
Description
The general objective of the project is the development of a system for improving and certifying the human resources’ quality and facilitating labor force mobilization in the cross-border region through pilot advisory actions and e-learning practices.
Project title: Small Mediterranean Insular Light Industries Enhancement and Support
Length of Project: 01.05.2009 - 31.03.2012
Acronym: SMILIES
The project brings together Local Authorities, Chambers of Commerce, SME Associations, Technical Centers, Training and R&D providers and Universities for developing existing industrial SMEs' and industry start-ups' innovation projects.
Framework: RIS+ Central Macedonia: Implementation of RTP Action Plan" Project
Year: 2001
Project title: Agro-biotechnology Promotion
Assignor: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Research Committee
Year: 2000
Project title: Re-editing of the National Economic Development Plan 2000-2006, in co-operation with the Bulgarian Government, particularly regarding the 4th Priority "Human Resource Development and Living Conditions"
Assignor/ Final Beneficiary: European Commission/ Bulgarian Center
Year: 1999
Project title: SME s' technological innovation and employment in the Greek Retail Trade
Assignor/ Final Beneficiary: European Commission (G. D. V ) Industrial relations & social dialogue
Participation in many Article 6 FSE & EQUAL's programs
Framework Programme: Erasmus+
Year: 2015
Project title: «Developing New Skills for the ExtroversionSpecializations of Fashion Industry in Europe»
Client: National Scholarship Foundation - National Authority of the Erasmus+ Programme for Greece
Framework Programme: Erasmus+
Year: 2015
Project title: «School-to-Work for Higher education students with disabilities in Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Montenegro" (Trans2Work)»
Client: EACEA

In 2015, Our Common Future organised 3 documentary film making projects, in Vienna, Luxembourg, and Brussels. Participants focused on such diverse topics as new ways for political participation, Europe's response to migration, homophobia, and happiness in life. More projects are planned in 2016, in Europe as well as in neighbouring countries including Morocco, Turkey, Armenia, and Ukraine among others. The projects planned involve the integration of migrants in Europe through social entrepreneurship, giving professionals and students in the field of integration the opportunity to experience themselves and integration procedure in a new culture, and intercultural communication in borderlands and their role for the preservation of peace.

> Training of Trainers (ToTs) for Dialogue Facilitating (in German and English) - 4 modules to become certified as Dialogue Facilitators. Certified participants of the trainings can become members of the ENDF
> Workshops, seminars to introduce Bohmean Dialogue to interested people and organisations, also to introduce dialogical settings in public institutions, private companies, local authorities, NGOs
> Dialogue workshops for refugees (My road to the future), families, young people, children, and other target groups for their special subjects
> project development for transnational educational and learning projects in EU programme lines.
> project cooperation with Tunisian organisations (University Gabes and Tawaasol, Zarzis) for Training of Trainers for Dialogue Facilitation
 

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