Some of our local activities include:
- Effect ITF – Independent Theatre Festival Galati;
- We run for Community - charity marathon with participation fee. The participants sustain a cause and the cause sustained by the winner gets all the funds.
- ACUFest - cultural performing activities, graffiti, exhibition and outdoor sports in Galati; dance competition;
- Be a volunteer, volunteering counts - Encouraging young people volunteering thru a series of seminars and conferences with the support of Peace Corps volunteers in Republic of Moldova.
- Mediations of internships - Trying to help young people find a job by mediating a dialogue between those who want to do internship / volunteer in the state or private companies and those that require unskilled labour;
- Applied Budget (a campaign to develop the civic sense of people in Galati, showing them that their opinion matters and that they can influence some of the Town Hall's future budget);
- Introducing Public Speaking and other non-formal type of courses for local youth and young entrepreneurs;
- Presentation of the Youth in Action and Erasmus+ programme to students from university and high schools;
- The road to the sea (20 volunteers accompanying kids with disabilities and from placement homes to the seaside and offering them three days of fun);
- The Magic of Christmas-Christmas Show (for kids from placement homes and families with less opportunities);
- Campaigns in local schools about the abuse of legal and illegal drugs;
- Whish Box (Christmas presents for children coming from poor families).
International projects:
We keep good collaboration with our international partners and we are opened for new contacts.
We pay special attention involving newcomers into international projects.
Some of our Youth in Action and Erasmus+ Project we have participated in are:
2016
- North Mitrovica, Kosovo - European Minority Youth Inclusion - Training course promotes and raises awareness about social cohesion, tolerance, diversity and solidarity while in the same time fights against discrimination, racism, homophobia, xenophobia and exclusion in general in any form;
- Tokaj, Ungaria - World without hate - Youth exchange aiming to destroy the participants prejudice brought from own society and accept underprivileged people, especially Roma citizens;
- Agropoli, Italy - ArtEUCommunity - Youth exchange focused on the technique of papier-mâché ( better known to cast paper ) , as a form of creative art and aiming to promote the territory and exploit its traditions , in an exchange of ideas and best practices with other countries, with the aim of creating social inclusion and employment.
- Turkey, Adana - Discover yourself with Sports - Study visit with the objective to help the young people, who are exposed to technological and social inducement and directions within the modern life conditions, to discover their identities and reveal their hidden skills, through sport;
- Riga, Latvia - PSP: Personal, social and professional development of Roma EVS volunteers - Seminar aiming to explore and share theories and tools which can provide support for Roma young people to benefit from their EVS experiences as personal, social and professional competence development;
- Coka, Serbia - EuroACTive - Training course designed to empower youth workers
and active leaders to act for social activation of youth in their local communities, foster social inclusion and building of social cohesion in theirlocal communities using theatre related methods;
- Van, Turkey - Virtual Reality - Study visit aiming to create consciousness and awareness of young people about the virtual world, to avoid Internet from being a threat for the youth, to ensure the Internet it’s being used at a high level as a source for right perception and controlled usage;
- Tirana, Albania - Intercultural Dialogue through Music - Training designed to develop youth worker’s competences in intercultural dialogue through the use of music in order to increase the quality of their work and strengthening the capacity of their organisations.
2015
- Belgrade, Serbia - EuropeanYouth Work Academy - Strategic partnership designed for people interested in the work of NGOs and Erasmus+ program and willing to expand their personal abilities;
- Kirsehir, Turkey - Just Breathe - Youth exchange designed to help young participants to realize how important to prevent themselves from bad habits, to have natural diet and to do sports in order to maintain good lifestyle;
- Italy, Torino & Tbilisi, Georgia - Is God with us? - Srtategic partnership consisting in a training and a youth exchange, designed as a debate about the role of religion in the contemporary society and how and which is the role of religion in the role of the youth worker;
- Aksaray - Stop Addiction - Youth exchange focussed on Social media and its negative effects on people addicted to it and also prevention of social media addiction;
- Kusadasi, Turkey - Build, Educate, Transfer - Training course aiming to raise participant's awareness and highlight the importance of organizing and recognizing your own learning at large, either while working into an intercultural environment, either while working into your local community;
- Italy, Palermo - Multi-Generation. Finding our identity - Youth exchange designed to make participants understand that the migration’s phenomenon is not only a problem but also an opportunity of reflection and action in order to build and to make possible a society more and more intercultural;
- Palkovice, Czech Republic - I have a dream - Youth exchange that aims to help participants visualize their dreams and to set up a plan of small steps that can lead them to fulfil their dreams as soon as they come back to their countries and to compose their dreams to common dancing flashmob;
- Nyíregyháza, Hungary - Coaching Your Dreams - Training about the method of coaching in the youth work. This project was build from the practice and experiences of different organisations and experts;
- Antalya, Turkey - Entrepreneurship, this way! - Youth exchange that aims to make youth be aware of their capabilities and skills, believing that they could do to better to ensure their self-esteem and be able to activate develop their entrepreneurial spirit;
- Hungary, Székesfehérvár - Intercultipreneur - Youth exchange designed to give participants the opportunity to learn about the theme of social entrepreneurship for youth community development in multicultural environment and to get practical experience through various group activities and interaction with organizations related to the topics;
- Crnomelj, Slovenia - Advanced volunteer management - Training course designed to provide participants with competences and tools for implementing effective volunteer management system;
- Poland, Zlocieniec - Coach vs youth worker - Training course aimed to increase quality of youth work, through developing competences of youth workers form partner and cooperating organizations;
- Poland, Wisla - Healthy and active - Training designed to develop professional and personal skills of youth workers and hereby improve the quality of work of adults, young people and volunteers;
- Slovakia, Bratislava & Bakuriani, Georgia - Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainability -Strategic partnership consisting in a training course and a youth exchange aiming to explore the concept of social entrepreneurship as an innovative way to solve social problems in youth work using entrepreneurial skills;
- France, Strasbourg - Connecting Mobility - Training Course designed to provide tools and improve competences, in order to create a stronger link between youth mobility experience and the further professional perspectives, through the use of non-formal methods which answer the needs of youth in line with the requirements of labour market;
- Turkey, Edirne - Rhythm of Life - Youth exchange; learn about Roma culture and develop a sense of tolerance towards a different culture;
- Italy, Montone(Peruggia) - Citizen of Europe - Youth exchange aiming at curbing the phenomenon of the lack of interest of young people in the political and social activities, domestic and international, with particular reference to the activities within the European Union;
- Czech Republic, Mikulovice - Verbattle meets Europe - Youth exchange that aimed to improve participant's communication and language skills through seminars of work with information, logic, formulating their own opinions and arguments, public speaking, presentation skills and other soft-skills;
- Italy, Montecatini - Support Opportunities For Training Skills - Training course that aimed to contribute to youth worker’s social growth by offering them knowledge and practical tools to develop soft skills and transfer them to target group they are working with, in each organization;
- Czech Republic, Zlin - “Just grow up!” – Strategic partnership consisting in a training course and a youth exchange, focused on activation of young people and their motivation for self-development and job searching;
- Latvia, Ragana - To the point - Training course that aimed to provide youth workers working on sustainability and education with tools they can use to communicate important information in less than 3 minutes, and with the skills to do so;
- Albania, Pogradec - Creative strategies To approach Challenging Youth - Training designed to define the role of the youth worker/leader, methods for youth worker/leader approaches to the young people and to activate the inactive youth;
- Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad - Art & Culture - Journey to Success - art and crafts as a new alternative to the issue of youth unemployment;(Youth exchange)
- Lithuania, Trakai district – Hobby + Creativity = Successful Business - access to new approaches of creativeness and to strengthen confidence and self esteem through ingenuity and creativity;(Youth exchange)
-Austria, Viena - Photo planet, picture earth - stimulate young people's spirit of initiative using method of creative photography for their ability to create pictures;(Training course)
- Portugal, District of Santarem - Building bridges for Entrepreneurship and Emploiability - fight the scourge of youth unemployment, using, sharing and meetingnew practices, developed within the framework of youth work;(Study visit)
- Turkey, Hakkari - Fair-Play Spirit - developing collaboration avoiding bad habits, involvement in actual social life, awareness in Olympic culture, connective power of sports.(Study visit)
- Turkey, Tavsanly - All You Need is Sports - popularizing amateur sports in daily life and and encourage individuals to do at list one branch of sports.(Youth exchange)
