Minorities of Europe - the Branch for Baltic and Scandinavian States
Dzirnavu 87/89 - 314, LV-1011
Riga,
Latvia
- Arts
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Gender
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
- Religion
- Youth and education
The aims of organization are:
•To support and promote positive intercultural relations between minority and majority communities.
•To overcome mutual prejudice among minorities and majorities and the perception of powerlessness that minority young people often feel.
•To sustain the participation and integration of minority communities in Europe.
•To initiate and promote tangible projects and examples of community development between people of different faiths, cultures and traditions.
•To provide a framework for co-operation and exchange between minority groups, especially those who feel most isolated in Europe.
•To contribute to the development of an inter-cultural Europe, open to and based upon the contribution and participation of all communities, particularly those facing exclusion and alienation from the process of European integration.
The main target audience of MoE-BBSS involves young people, their parents, youth workers and all interested with different social, economical, ethnical, and cultural backgrounds. The organization assist people and provide information to target audience to facilitate and to organize different youth projects in the field of youth information, xenophobia, inclusion and diversity, mobility and human rights education, European and Euromed cooperation such as youth exchanges, seminars and other type of projects in order to increase participation and mobility of people with different background in public life.