Olaine municipality council have twinning agreements with partners from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia and Russia. Olaine municipality council every year realize a lot of projects, witch heighten inhabitants living standards.The biggest of them is:
# Tot lot playground development project in Olaine town;
# Development of swimming-pool, multi-functional ice-rink and athletic field in Olaine town;
Also every year we have calls for proposals in youth projects, where every young people can present ideas for youth and education upgrowing.

International youth exchanges on topics tied with fight against all forms of discrimination, with improvement of intercultural dialogue, with defining their own identity and discovering the value of diversity;
International volunteering projects that provides real discovery of different cultures, traditions, learning new languages, gaining new skills and knowledge in the fields they are interested;
Local initiatives that incourages young people to become active, learn to take responsability and organise events to make possitive changes in the local community;
Trainings and seminars to develope competences of youngsters and those who work with young people to develope and implement projects, use non-formal education and to find international partners.

Now main activity is promotion of project itself.It includes mutual, virtual advertising, events organisation, social networking etc.
Also it is planned to organise Jewish - Arab events doesn`t devoted to music - such as Jewish-Arab food festival, congress of Middle East peacemakers`in North Europe,youth summer camps,cultural evenings, activity in national&international levels.

Education for Life’s intervention program is a practical implementable program dealing with school climate and the dialog skills which promote cooperation. The program has its roots in a world view and is supported by implementable applications and models. The basic assumption is that underlying each human behavior is a need, and recognizing these needs creates a basis for a common human connection and cooperation. The program is based on the model for Nonviolent Communicationsm , developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg.
Education for Life’s intervention program is aimed at internalization of principals and attitude of effective, respectful and caring dialog on the organizational as well as on the personal level, of the educational community. (teachers, students and parents)
Purposes of the program
 Creation of institutional climate conducive to personal and professional growth of each student and staff member.
 An improvement in the personal physical and emotional feeling of safety within the educational community
 Acquirement of skills for effective interpersonal communications
 Development of respectful authority and creation of a safe environment
 Improvement of communication and connection between the educational staff, the students and the parents.
The program offered is designed for a three year intervention, and measured through clear goals in qualitative and quantitive measurements, determined by the steering committee and the trainers.
Another project is one that tries to promote diversity and respect between Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews,his project’s goal is to promote understanding and positive communication between the students and teachers of the Arab school Ort Ahva Naura and the Jewish school Amal Emek Harod. In the course of the project, the students and teaching staff acquired respectful, assertive and empathic dialogue skills, based on the Nonviolent CommunicationSM model. The teachers were also trained in the application of Respectful Authority, developed by Education for Life, which enables the expression of respectful authoritative messages and the definition of boundaries while retaining the spirit of nonviolence. The teachers practiced these skills in workshops, and engaged their classes in educational activities built to help them internalize and practice the model.
In the final stage, the students participated in Open Space processes and planned joint projects for the well-being of their region.
The ninth graders organized a fun day for Arab and Jewish children hospitalized at Emek hospital. The children initiated, planned and executed the activities themselves and of their own accord.
The eighth graders interviewed people about living together in peace. They also made banners and stickers reading “Living together is possible” in Hebrew and Arabic, and distributed them at the state cup finals in soccer between the Bnei Sahnin (Arab) and Hapoel Haifa (Jewish) soccer teams. Here, too, the children were the ones who initiated, planned and executed the activities.
In light of the success and wonderful reports on part of children and teachers alike, the project is continuing this year, adding more children to the process, and training children in basic skills of Nonviolent Communication so they can peer train others.

Muntada’s Main Programs for 2010
• School Education Program: this project focuses on developing appropriate, culturally-sensitive school curricula in sexuality education and training of professionals for working with students and their parents, as well as enriching parents with tools to improve communication with their children in this sensitive domain, and provide students with skills to make their own healthy decisions and protect themselves from potentially harmful sexual practices.
• Sexual Health Promotion through Community Outreach Programs: this project focuses on raising awareness regarding sexual health and rights through community workshops with various groups of all ages and both genders, as well as the creation of a space where the community can access accurate information and services related to sexuality. It is worth mentioning that a large part of the workshops are based on the participatory approach, that is, the active involvement of all the participants through interaction, expressing their views to others and free-open discussions with others in the group. Muntada’s website plays a major role in providing this accurate information, counseling on line, and professional advice to all educators and professionals who access the website and ask for assistance
• Advanced Professional Training on Sexuality Education and Sexual Health: Muntada conducts two advanced training courses (112 hours) every year. Every year, at least 36 professionals graduate from this course.
• Continuous Professional Supervision and Training for Staff members and Volunteers: Continuous professional training and supervision takes place for Muntada’s staff members and volunteers. In this regard, the sessions with Mr. Mustafa Shala’tah, a prominent psychologist, will continue to be held every three weeks to support the trainers and facilitators in their field work

Brain research focusing on the effect of psychological, cultural and social processes on regulation of emotional behavior as manifested in anger, aggression and hostility.
The research method is multi-level and multi-modal ranging from brain imaging, physiological measures and analysis of verbal outputs.

Archeological documentation projects in Israel like: Caesarea Maritima, Bet Shean\Scitopolis, Akko, Jodfat (Jotapata) Ramle and also Pompeii (Italy). My aim is to produce new project with partners coming from various EU and MEDA countries.

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The Art Interventions Program included projects such as: Under Construction - with ex-miners communities, The Return of the Gastarbajters - with immigrants in the Balskan, Sex in transition and currently Poverty in Jerusalem.

Mare Nostrum, a documentary TV series dealing with the past, present and future of the Mediterranean realities and vision from three angles: music, immigration and the harbour city. Our aim is to produce this project with a crew and partners coming from various EU and MEDA countries.