OSMIJEH ( SMILE )

National Network
Slovenia
Address

F. Pintarića 31
BJELOVAR
Croatia

Telephone
00385 43 231-400
Telephone (other)
0038543 246-414
Fax
00385 43 231-400
E-Mail
osmijeh@osmijeh-bj.hr
E-Mail (2)
ikutzay@zsem.hr
Mobile Phone
00385 91 162-2627
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2006
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
66 members , 0 employed, 4 international partners 10.000 eura in a year project , local community Portal with an NPO database for the Town of Bjelovar • Information point (showcase) • Education for anticorruption portal • Stop to corruption • Portal with an NPO database for the County Bjelovarsko-bilogorska • English courses for adults, basic, intermediate and advanced levels Partners: local community BBŽ, Embassy of Neatherland, private sector
Mission and Objectives

To stimulate and promote cooperation in local communities with the aim of long-term development.
Our vision is a balanced society with developed local communities for the benefit of present and future generations.Our values are:Openness, being involved, fairness, trust, partnership, innovation

Main Projects / Activities

- Participation in workshops:
Managing the Project Cycle
Strategic Planning
Financing from EU Funds
Democracy and the Media
Arion Visit Study - Global Learning – EU
Portal with an NPO database
Information point (showcase)
Education for anti-corruption portal
Stop to corruption

Contact (1) Full Name
VERA ŠAKIĆ FRNTIĆ
Head of the organisation
VERA ŠAKIĆ FRNTIĆ
Contact (2) Full Name
ĐURĐICA SMRČEK BARJAKTAR

Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon

National Network
France
Address

4 rue Charles Dullin - 69002 LYON - FRANCE
Lyon
France

Telephone
00 33 4 72 77 40 00
Telephone (other)
00 33 4 72 77 48 59
Fax
00 33 4 72 77 48 64
E-Mail
patrick.penot@celestins-lyon.org
E-Mail (2)
olivier.crouzet@celestins-lyon.org
Organisation Type
Local/Regional Authority
Year of Establishment
1795
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
Régie directe de la Ville de Lyon, l'effectif du théâtre des Célestins est constitué est de 52 permanents. Le théâtre dispose d'un budget annuel de 9,3 M€. La Ville de Lyon participe à hauteur de 4,2 M€ à son financement, auquel s'ajoute des recettes propres de billetterie et de diffusion des créations (4,3 M€) et des subventions privées ou de mécénat (280 K€). La vocation du Théâtre se décline sur le champs de la création artistique, de la diffusion des créations, de la coproduction de spectacles et sz la diffusion en ses murs de représentations théâtrales. A ce titre ses principaux partenaires sont des compagnies et théâtres nationaux et internationaux et des institutions.
Mission and Objectives

Dirigé par le tandem Claudia Stavisky/Patrick Penot il s’est vu confier en 2000 la triple mission :
- d’assurer le rajeunissement et l’élargissement des publics au moyen d’une programmation diverse et exigeante,
- de pratiquer une large ouverture à la création contemporaine notamment grâce aux mises en scène de Claudia Stavisky,
- de participer au rayonnement national et international de la Ville de lyon en s’insérant dans le réseau national et européen de production théâtrale de service public.
Ces objectifs sont désormais largement atteints puisqu’avec près de 110 000 spectateurs par saison, plus de 250 représentations dans ses deux salles, une fréquentation moyenne de l’ordre de 90% et 5 créations en tournées nationales en 2008/2009 pour un total de 300 représentations, des accueils de compagnies européennes et internationales, le Théâtre des Célestins est désormais l’une des toutes premières maisons de théâtre en France.

Main Projects / Activities

Fort de ces atouts et de sa renommée, le Théâtre des Célestins fait désormais de l’ouverture à l’Europe et à l’international l’un des axes essentiels de son projet d’établissement pour les années 2009-2013. La création, de la saison 2008, Blackbird de David Harrower sera présentée en Suisse, en Belgique et au Canada.
Initié en septembre 2009 «SENS INTERDITS » festival international des « théâtres de nécessités » s’intéressera aux problématiques de l’identité, de la mémoire et des résistances notamment au cœur de l’Europe et de ses cultures. Des compagnies notamment originaires de Turquie et de Croatie présenteront leurs spectacles en version originale.

Contact (1) Full Name
Patrick Penot
Head of the organisation
Claudia Stavisky / Patrick Penot : Directeurs
Contact (2) Full Name
Olivier Crouzet

LGBT Support Group Vaivorykste at Vytautas Magnus University

National Network
Lithuania
Address

Donelaicio 52-309, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University
Kaunas, Lithuania LT44248

Kaunas
Lithuania

Telephone
+37037327951
Fax
+37037327822
E-Mail
A.Zdanevicius@smf.vdu.lt
E-Mail (2)
jautis1971@gmail.com
Mobile Phone
+37067208173
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
2007
Fields of Activity
  1. Youth and education
General Information
The main aim of this organization is to support gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender person at the University and to fight against discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation. The group unites students and teachers at the University and organizers cultural events and academic discussions, seminars with university community and local community in the city of Kaunas. We cooperate with other gay organizations in Lithuania.
Mission and Objectives

The objective of our organization is to promote values of tolerance, democracy, freedom of speech and expression and equality. These values are still not fully implemented in the framework of our academic community. We aim to initiate discussion and act to protect homosexual students and teachers to be open about their sexual orientation. The long term aim is social change of our homophobic attitudes and promotion of diversity, democracy and active citizenship.

Main Projects / Activities

We have several projects which we initiated together with students. The first was called CIVICUS which aimed to promoted dialogue between community and university and promote the value of active citizenship. We have developed research and initiated discussion forums (video-conferences with international academic community) about the principles of active citizenship. We developed newsletter which was accused of gay propaganda and was banned by University authorities. Our group initiate seminars on tolerance and discussions with the public.

Contact (1) Full Name
Arnoldas Zdanevicius
Head of the organisation
Arnoldas Zdanevicius
Contact (2) Full Name
Saulius Skucas

Maghreb Jazz

National Network
Morocco
Address

Kolfschotenstraat 21
1104 NV Amsterdam

Amsterdam
Netherlands

Telephone
0031 (0) 6 275 22 715
Telephone (other)
0031 (0) 20 69 975 66
E-Mail
info@maghrebjazz.nl
E-Mail (2)
cd_jwo_rai@hotmail.com
Mobile Phone
0031 (0) 6 275 22 715
Organisation Type
Private Company
Year of Establishment
2000
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
I am working as individual that has his own company... For bigger projects I work under the flag of Marmoucha foundation...biggest platform for Northafrican music in the Netherlands www.marnoucha.nl
Mission and Objectives

Maghrebjazz is an international music platform stimulating the international dialogue by mixing Northafrican music culture with European/Afro-American

Main Projects / Activities

concerts, musical exchange forms and educational projects, promoting maghrebjazz in all it's forms

Contact (1) Full Name
Jan Wouter Oostenrijk
Head of the organisation
Jan Wouter Oostenrijk

El Wassat

National Network
Algeria
Address

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Tizi Ozou
Algeria

Telephone
00 213 552 150 799
Telephone (other)
00 213 552 150 799
Fax
00 213 26 25 64 01
E-Mail
samirtizi2008@hotmail.fr
E-Mail (2)
samirtizi2008@hotmail.fr
Mobile Phone
00 213 552 150 799
Mobile Phone (other)
00 213 552 150 799
Organisation Type
Private Company
Year of Establishment
1999
Fields of Activity
  1. Media
General Information
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Mission and Objectives

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Main Projects / Activities

bon maintenant j ai envie de couvrir toute l afrique et meme l europe et ca dans la distubition car est un journal cridble qui besoin de plus de tout la monde .

Contact (1) Full Name
Halit Samir
Head of the organisation
Toufik Bouhdjar
Contact (2) Full Name
Halit Samir

Solar CITIES e.V.

National Network
Germany
Address

Wisthoffweg 48
45139 Essen
Germany

Telephone
+49.177.6924030
Telephone (other)
+49.201.281328
E-Mail
tculhane@ucla.edu
E-Mail (2)
sybille.fruetel@gmx.net
Mobile Phone
+49.163.6920362
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2008
Fields of Activity
  1. Environment/Sustainable development
General Information
Solar C.I.T.I.E.S. e.V. (known as an "eingetragener Verein", a non-governmental organization), is the institutionalized result (registered May 20, 2008) of the personal initiative of Thomas Henry and Sybille Culhane. The organization has seven members on the board of directors in Germany, two American and two Egyptian advisory board members. The Culhanes funded several fully operating solar hot water and biogas facilities in the slums of Cairo out-of-pocket. The American University in Cairo faculty devoted resources to extend research and development. UCLA provided a research grant. The creation of 30 functional solar hot water systems in both Christian and Muslim neighborhoods was made possible by a $25,000 Small Infrastructure Grant from US AID . National Geographic has provided press and a $10,000 Emerging Explorer Award to continue the work. Solar CITIES presents globally at universities, conferences and workshops and works with Egypt’s NGO “Spirit of Youth” and Aga Khan Trust for Culture.
Mission and Objectives

Our mission is contained within the acronym in our name, "Solar C3.I.T.I.E.S.": "Connecting Community Catalysts Integrating Technologies for Industrial Ecology Solutions". We strive to be solution providers at the household and community level for a host of related urban ecology challenges: energy production, water conservation, waste recycling, and sewage treatment, as well as poverty reduction through „green collar jobs training“, participatory community development and gender equity. Our chief objective is to expand the intensely local sustainable development work we have done over the past few years in the slums and informal areas of Cairo, Egypt to a global level so that we can create an ever wider network of stakeholders building „collective intelligence“. We share Buckminster Fuller’s faith that we can “operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced!”

Main Projects / Activities

Our activities involve the creation and installation of community-built solar hot water systems, kitchen-waste-to-cooking-gas bio-digestors, cold water rooftop storage systems and rooftop gardens, urban compost bins and grey-water recycling systems, all made locally from indigenous and recycled materials. In the future we aim to engage in capacity building for small scale wind generators, photovoltaic installation and energy efficient product components construction, slow sand filtration, water purification, community energy management and sewage treatment. Following Turner’s belief that “housing is a verb” we conceive of the urban dwelling as the fundamental unit of reproduction and power production, and use that power to recycle the waste and water in situ. We train residents not only in the hardware elements of appropriate environmental technology but in the “wetware” elements of basic science comprehension and awareness sharing, empowering a generation of “trainers of trainers” who can pass the torch to other communities and future generations.

Contact (1) Full Name
Thomas Henry Culhane
Head of the organisation
Dr. Sybille Culhane and Thomas Henry Culhane, M.A.
Contact (2) Full Name
Dr. Sybille Culhane

Union of Lebanese Democratic Youth

National Network
Lebanon
Address

2nd Floor, Sfeir Building, Mar Elias Street
Beirut
Lebanon

Telephone
009611300831
E-Mail
ujdl@yahoo.com
Mobile Phone
009613094388
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1970
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. Human rights
  4. International/Cultural relations
  5. Youth and education
General Information
ULDY is a youth led, youth oriented organization based on voluntary work of its members. Currently its has around 400 members around Lebanon, across all regions and all religious groups. The budget constitutes of membership fees of members to finance operational costs. Projects are funded through donors in Lebanon and abroad (Cric-Itlay, ILF, Sweden,...). The operational budget is around 25,000$ per year covering rents, phones and logistic stuff. Project funding differs from year to year according to availability of donors. Through the last few years ULDY involved in many seminars as well as exchange projects. In addition, one relief aid project was done. Partners include local authorities, other non-governmental organizations from Lebanon and abroad, and international organizations.
Mission and Objectives

ULDY believes in the importance of breaking the borders between the Lebanese youth. Those borders are mainly sectarian borders imposed by the nature of the Lebanese society. ULDY works to raise awareness about the need to have intercultural and inter religious cooperation among the youth. ULDY also believes in the importance of putting pressure on the decision makers to make reforms in the laws leading to sectarian divisions.
Another important issue for ULDY is the right of youth to affordable education for all. This is the most important tool in shaping the youth's culture and understanding of the world, and a good education will bring the youth together in spite of their differences.
ULDY tries to promote the talents of the youth in fine arts so that they can express themselves and find more tools that can unite them in a sound social structure.
Understanding our neighborhood in the region and around the world is another important value that we promote. People are similar in spite of their cultural differences. ULDY tries to involve the youth in international dialogues and cooperation as another element of the wide tolerant culture that we belive in.

Main Projects / Activities

Some of the recent important activities:
1. A relief aid for the victims of the 2006 War between Lebanon and Israel.
2. Establishing a cultural center in the town of Srifa in the South of Lebanon.
3. A youth march that toured all the cities of Lebanon for 33 days to promote unity between different regions and religions.
4. Several youth camps every summer with themes of dialogue, art and culture.
5. Exchange programs with several organizations in several countries.
6. A regional conference on human rights and democracy in the middle east.

Contact (1) Full Name
Rasha Nasreddine
Head of the organisation
Imad Bawab

L'Espérantine

National Network
France
Address

15 rue des Vignerons
Marseille 06
France

Telephone
04 91 67 40 31
Fax
04 91 53 32 83
E-Mail
martorana@esperantine-de-marseille.com
Mobile Phone
06 07 51 69 94
Organisation Type
Private Company
Year of Establishment
1999
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
  2. Others
General Information
Nous fédérons autour d'une confiserie à l'huile d'olive dénommée "L'esperantine-de-Marseiile" un large public de gourmets amoureux de la Mediterranée et de ses traditions. A ce jour, à l'occasion d'une centaine de déplacements partout en France et depuis bientôt 10 ans nous aurons présenté et fait déguster" L'Espérantine-de-Marseille" à près de 3 millions de personnes.
Mission and Objectives

Crée à l'occasion des 2600 ans de Marseille en 1999 puis
élue "Meilleure confiserie de France" en 2000 à Paris,
"L'espérantine-de-Marseille"ambitionne d'être la confiserie identitaire de tout le périmètre euro-méditerranéen.

Main Projects / Activities

Aujourd'hui nous envisageons d'ouvrir une nouvelle
boutique autour du vieux port pour satisfaire aux demandes d'un nombre sans cesse croissant de croisièristes ou de touristes.
Mais surtout , grâce au pouvoir d'évocation de "l'Esperantine-de-Marseille" et notamment de la symbolique du Rameau d'olivier sur la paix et l'espérance
nous voulons nous engager résolument dans le projet "Marseille 2013".

Contact (1) Full Name
Francesco Martorana
Head of the organisation
Francesco Martorana

Pedvale Ltd. (Open-Air Art Museum)

National Network
Latvia
Address

"Pedvale"
Sabile, LV3294,
Latvia

Telephone
+37163252248
Telephone (other)
+37163252249
E-Mail
pedvale@pedvale.lv
E-Mail (2)
ojars.feldbergs@pedvale.lv
Mobile Phone
+37129133374
Mobile Phone (other)
+37122401165
Organisation Type
Private Company
Year of Establishment
1991
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
Administrative body for Pedvale Ltd. is board with one member of the board — director Ojars Arvids Feldbergs. Permanent staff consists of 8 persons. In order to implement annual creative programs in accordance with Pedvale mission statement, permanent employees work together with invited project managers, curatorial professionals, specialist practitioners and technicians in their respective fields for ensuring, developing, managing and guiding the successful completion of projects. Budgetary resources available in a year are LVL 50`000. Sources of funding are: income from economic activities, grants, sponsor. Modalities of action are concrete projects and exchanges. Main partners for Pedvale Ltd. are Art institutions of higher education in Europe and both individual artists and their organizations all over the world.
Mission and Objectives

Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum conception is to integrate natural landscape, cultural heritage and art in a unified entirety. The territory covers an area of 100 hectares, formed of wide natural landscapes. Artists occupy the landscape with their presence, ideas, thoughts and their artworks. They are invited to seek inspiration and impressions from nature, and to use environmental motives in their works. In creating their works, artists generally use simple materials available in nature. The landscape comes to form a part of the piece of art, providing the emotive and conceptual content of the work.
Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum has become an important cultural center that is valued by artists and visitors alike.
According to the situation that Latvia was occupied by USSR for 50 years, the main objectives for Pedvale Ltd. is to promote intercultural dialog, cultural exchange in the field of contemporary art and to ensure cultural education process.

Main Projects / Activities

Since 1993 Pedvale offers individual residencies for artists as well as the opportunity to carry out various creative projects individually. Artists from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Ukraine, Switzerland, Spain, the USA, and Japan have worked in the residence. Pedvale Museum also organizes symposia, workshops, exhibitions and other events for sculptors, painters, printmakers, writers and other artists.
Since 2007 Pedvale has a new programme "S.T.O.N.E.” - stone aS a culTural symbOl and inNovative dimEnsion . Stones have an important role in the historical development of mankind and since ancient times people from different cultures ascribe to stones mythical qualities. As a result stone is a cultural symbol for different epochs and nations. The task for the artist is to integrate the cultural heritage into the form of contemporary art and show an innovative dimension in the traditional stone sculpture.

Contact (1) Full Name
Ojars Arvids Feldbergs
Head of the organisation
Ojars Arvids Feldbergs
Contact (2) Full Name
Laura Miglone

christian sturminger (individual)

National Network
Austria
Address

kaiserstraße 41
1020 vienna

vienna
Austria

Telephone
+4315225215
Fax
+431522491815
E-Mail
sturminger@k41.at
Mobile Phone
+436642805488
Organisation Type
Individual Person
Fields of Activity
  1. Media
General Information
exhibition curator and designer 1-3 project cooperators cooperation with many museums, cultural and scientific institutions in austria ethnografic museum vienna historical museum of vienna museum of ethology kunsthistorisches musem vienna joanneum graz technical museum vienna
Mission and Objectives

Exhibitions are a vehicle of social, cultural, economic, and political exchange.
Cultural phenomena, as art, architecture, design, as well as science, intanguable heritage, and social practizes are values expressing human activities which reveal connections and diversities and stimulate debates. By addressing the past and the present both, in objects and ideas, we intend to express and transform knowledge and understanding of the cultural wealthiness of the different cultures of the world.

Main Projects / Activities

exhibition projectmanagement, concept and design
interactive installations

Contact (1) Full Name
christian sturminger