C.V.M. is carrying on cooperation and development projects in two African countries (Tanzania and Etiopia) in partnership with local organizations and institutions. The projects concern the prevention and cure of HIV/AIDS, water provisions and the construction of wells.
C.V.M. realizes activities in the area of Development Education and it’s accredited from The Ministry of Education able to realize activities in the area of intercultural education with teachers and students. Main projects:
- laboratories with students;
- The National Seminar on Intercultural Education opened to teachers coming from all over Italy;
- Training courses for teachers, educators and volunteers
- Publication of the Religions Calendar;
- The regional Campaign “Target 2015 – I poveri non possono aspettare” aimed to promote the UN Millennium Development Goals.
- The project “Insieme contro l’AIDS”, aimed at educating Italian youth on the risks of HIV/AIDS and at fighting against prejudices existing around this illness.

Among some of the most recent works:
- the research Anas/DiAr on the Grande Raccordo Anulare
- the Workshop for the new university campus in Pietralata
- projects for the requalification of hill towns in Umbria
- the investigation on the contemporary city for the "Carta per la Qualità" of the new Master Plan of Rome
- the selection of works of artistic and historical relevance of the second half of XIX Century for the DARC - Direzione generale
per l'Architettura e l'Arte contemporanee del Ministero per i Beni e le attività culturali.
- researches on contemporary forms of housing
- temporary housing for earthquake areas
- workshops on landscape issues together with the Chaire Unesco en environnement et paysage

Activities: establishing and maintaining contacts in Egypt and in Europe to promote dialogue in the society and establishing a network of organisations which are willing to work with us for our aim.

The institution organises exhibitions, workshops, concerts, music and dance competitions, theatre performances. It runs several art clubs and courses.
Among the latest educational projects organised and co-organised by 'Widzew Community Centres' are:
2006: 'Moja saska - moja polska siostra' [My Saxon - My Polish Sister]: the project devoted to Polish-Saxon relations in the history of Lodz;
2007-2008: 'Kamienica' [The Tenement House]: the project related to the history of the Lodz Ghetto;
2008: '60 lat animowane po polsku' [60 Years Animated in Polish]: the project was a celebration of the Year of Polish Animated Films;
2008: 'Machiny do poznawania świata' [World-teaching Machines]: the project based on the idea of the kinetics sculptures;
2009: 'Glos wlokniarski pokolenia wnukow' [Textile Workers' Voice of the Grandchildren Generation]: the project explores the history of Lodz through the history of its textile industry;
2009: 'Widzew na starych i nowych widokówkach' [Widzew in Old and New Postcards].

Restart Media Center is a continuous program of media and educational programs that sprang out of associations Fade In and Attack from Zagreb and represents a central point for education and production of socially engaged video. The educational program started in July 2003. Until July 2008 through 7 different programs we held 90 workshops, screenings and presentations encompassing roughly 300 days in 40 cities with 2500 participants from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia.
The program consists of 3 phase:
1. PHASE:
a.) Introduction to video activism – screening with discussions
b.) Basic video workshop (3 to 7 days)
II. PHASE:
a.) Advanced workshop of documentary film, engaged journalism and organizational skills
b.) Intership with local TV
III. PHASE
a.) Establishing centers of video activism in Croatia
b.) Networking

Theatre festivals, performing events, workshops (Expression as a transmission of human experience), artistic exchanges, seminars, lectures, scholarships, international anthropolical researches.
Performance SCLAVI / The Song of an Emigrant is based on field research the Farm in the Cave did in villages of eastern Slovakia, on old Ruthenian and Ukrainian songs, on letters of Slovak emigrants, and on the story of Karel Capek ’s Hordubal.
Performance Waiting Room - memory versus the presence of a place – the railway station Zilina-Zariecie; from here, Jews from the Slovak State were deported during the second world war. In the waiting-room, a place in-between, „accidental“ travellers meet and the dead return, not by accident. In this banal triangle of relations, private violence accumulates, evoking the unhealed historical trauma, which is still the root of silent nationalism.
FARM IN THE CAVE - WORK DEMO is a concert – performance – meeting. A composed evening which is different every time. Certain parts of various performances are intermingled with the examples from the ensembles journeys for inspiration. ...

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Our Activities
1. General
a. Training
b. Dissemination of information
c. Consultation & Advice
d. Coaching
e. Research
2. Project development
Stimulating educational projects for young people (young migrants) in the field of:
1. Empowerment
2. Entrepreneurship
3. Employment
4. (youth) culture participation
5. Useful free time spending
6. Sport stimulating activities
Moreover we envision creating a platform where we will be able to:
A. Develop and improve the capacity and effectiveness of African & Caribbean Diaspora youth-serving organizations to affect youth empowerment & employment;
B. Facilitate the interaction between businesses (SME’s) and the Diaspora youth within the European, Caribbean and African context.
C. Develop innovative and effective youth empowerment & employment initiatives.
D. Raise awareness of issues that affect the Afro- Caribbean Diaspora youth, such as Education, Employability, Employment Creation, Entrepreneurship, and Empowerment.
E. To improve the leadership and staff capacity of Afro-Caribbean Diaspora youth-serving organizations;
F. To influence migration and development policies through research, information, advocacy and coalition building;
Although we have a special focus is on young people from the Diaspora community, we are open for everybody as we believe that every young person needs assistance. As such we help every young person who comes to us. Moreover learning from other culture will help us to help our youngster and prepare them to be able to succeed in a diversified community as we are living now

Our main projects are at this moment Coolpolitics&Hyves Go Europe (hyverkiezingen.hyves.nl), Coolpolitics Cinema (www.coolpoliticscinema.nl), Lowlands University (www.coolpolitics.nl, www.lowlands.nl) and Cooolpolitics CultureClash

Our main project is called 'Exchange for a Cosmopolitan Future', which aims to initiate and develop a structural and long term transnational and multidisciplinary artistic platform. Our point of departure is a widely shared need to both document and record, visualize and theorize the diverse cultures of the contemporary European city that have come about as a result of major flows og migration since the 1960s. In major cities of Europe such as in Amsterdam and Antwerp, Berlin and hamburg, Brussels and rotterdam, Paris and Lyon, postcolonial migration together with migration of workers have generated a new transnational culture that distinguishes itself by its multiple identities.
This project is divided into three sub-projects: Arts and Locality; Arts and Memory and an Underground Cafe for Theory. These three projects together envisage an interdisciplinary exhibition, events in the performing and visual arts and fashion, literary residencies, as well as an Underground Cafe for Cultural Theory and Urbanism. These will be developed through intensive collaboration between artists and professionals from the cities of Istanbul, Antwerp and Amsterdam.
The exhibition, performances, art and the Underground Cafe generated first in Istanbul in 2010 will travel back to Antwerp and Amsterdam with a deepened understanding and expression of urban cosmopolitan identity. As in Istanbul this return to Europe entails a cross-fertilization of artists and their audiences from both centre and periphery: exhibitions and performances in parts of the cities outside the cultural infrastructure, but also on established stages. An explicit aim of the project is not just to explore new forms of artistic expression, but also the reach out to new audiences.