Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences

National Network
Latvia
Address

Cesu street 4
Valmiera, LV-4201
Latvia

Telephone
+371 64207230
E-Mail
liga.cvetkova@va.lv
E-Mail (2)
international@va.lv
Mobile Phone
+371 26182266
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
1996
Fields of Activity
  1. Youth and education
General Information

Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences is a state university offering professional bachelor and master's degrees in four faculties: Business Administration and Economics, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Social Sciences and Engineering. The approximate number of students is 1400, and around 150 academic and administrative staff members are employed in the institution. University plays an active role in the region it is situated and cooperates with both local and international partners in public, business and academic sectors. Great emphasis in the study process is also the international perspective of studies, therefore various international projects and activities like conferences, seminars, exchanges, summer schools, workshops have been organized in Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences. University receives funding from the state offering free study places for students, and also accepts fee paying students.

Mission and Objectives

Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences is developing as one of the most innovative regional centres for academic education and research in the Baltic Sea area. It objectives include: offering up-to-date education combining academic knowledge and professional skills and perspectives, developing research and technologies oriented towards regional development, providing possibilities of life-long learning in cooperation with Vidzeme Lifelong Learning Centre, promoting the international cooperation.

Main Projects / Activities

Since 2000 ViA has been involved in implementation of more than 40 projects funded mainly by EU funds, Republic of Latvia, UN and USA, Nordic funds etc. Main themes of projects: improvement of study and research infrastructure and library premises, development of curricula, research and science, regional development, development cooperation etc. The current running projects include: 2009 – 2011: “Development of Vidzeme Continuing Education Techology Centre”; 2009 – 2011: “Cental Baltic Innovation Tools for Practice” (leading partner Porvoo Commercial School in Finland); 2009 – 2011: “Landscape Along the Gauja River - Revitalization of Historical Center of Valmiera” (leading partner Valmiera City Council) 2009 – 2011: “Utilization of the research potential of local universities in Latvia for the promotion of regional development” (leading partner University of Latvia) 2008 – 2009: "Development Co-operation Studies as a Subject at the Vidzeme University College"

Contact (1) Full Name
Liga Cvetkova
Head of the organisation
Assoc.prof. Agnese Davisone, Rector
Contact (2) Full Name
Iveta Putnina

African Empowerment Centre

National Network
Sweden
Address

Norra Kronan gata 423, 13660 Haninge, Stockholm
Stockholm
Sweden

Telephone
0046762278675
E-Mail
chinwekene@hotmail.com
E-Mail (2)
africanempowermentctr@gmail.com
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2008
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
General Information
We have a board consisting five members and we have generally 15 members. We have not carried out any big project rather we have been on our own organising little center for few immigrants. We have a project now with Youth for Exchange and Understanding in Portugal. Our members work voluntary at the moment.
Mission and Objectives

Our main objectives are to take care of immigrants that are new in the country. To organise orintation courses for them.
To help them get the necessary information they need to get integrated into the mainstream society.

Main Projects / Activities

Our main project is to feed the new comers with information they need to get into the main society. We have the plans to reach African youths that are still warming up for avenues to come to europe in search of greener pastures.
We think that it is better to let them know that they can make it in their various countries by struggling hard than coming to a new country where they have no network.
It does not end to help them in their new countries but We think that efforts should be made to help to yet to come about the risks involved. This can be achieved through conferences, seminars and training programs in various countries in Africa.

Contact (1) Full Name
Lilian Chibiko
Head of the organisation
Lilian Chibiko

AFS Interkultur Sverige (AFS Intercultural Sweden)

National Network
Sweden
Address

Box 14016
16714 Bromma
Sweden

Telephone
+4684060000
E-Mail
info@afs.se
E-Mail (2)
frida.soderberg@afs.org
Mobile Phone
0722513298 (Frida Söderberg, Verksamhetsutvecklare)
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1948
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
  2. Youth and education
General Information

AFS began as a volunteer ambulance corps in 1914 during the First World War. After World War II started in the youth exchanges in high school, which today makes the AFS the world's largest non-profit exchange organization with operations in more than 55 countries.

In Sweden, AFS was founded as a nonprofit organization in 1948. AFS is based entirely on voluntary contributions from members, volunteers and board.

Mission and Objectives

Our goal is that the AFS experience will lay the foundation for a lifelong experience of personal development. We also want to create an understanding and a commitment to other people and cultures.

Main Projects / Activities

AFS is working for a more peaceful world and active global citizenship through increased understanding between people and cultures. We do this by, for example, arranging short and long exchange program for young people. Linked to each program are several elements of intercultural learning.

Contact (1) Full Name
Frida Söderberg
Job Title
Organisation Development Consultant (Verksamhetsutvecklare)
Head of the organisation
Ulrik Wehner (Partner Director)

Danscentrum Väst

National Network
Sweden
Address

Ärlegatan 3
Gothenburg
Sweden

Telephone
+46-31-140128
Telephone (other)
+46-708-140126
E-Mail
birgit.berndt@danscentrum.se
E-Mail (2)
vast@danscentrum.se
E-Mail (3)
charlie.astrom@studiooscuro.se
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1992
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
A non profit organization for professional freelance dancers and choreographers. Staff: 4 people. Budget around 3 million. Our mainly fundings are from our region and from the Swedish Arts Council.
Mission and Objectives

Our mission is to make it possible to let dance be a part of every persons life, in some way. Dance Centre West are the first choice to turn to when you think about dance and our objectives are that our work will help our members to be able to focus solely on their artistic work.

Main Projects / Activities

We work with information, daily training for dancers, Questions about culture- and labour market policies. We are working with intermediation to create more work for our members. To do that we also create different kinds of project and collaborations. We are also involved in many networks.

Contact (1) Full Name
Birgit Berndt
Head of the organisation
Ann Lundberg

Donnergymnasiet

National Network
Sweden
Address

Celsiusgatan 9
41762 Gothenburg
Sweden

Telephone
+46 31-381 29 01
E-Mail
jonna.skarin@donnergymnasiet.se
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
1998
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
  2. Youth and education
General Information

Donnergymnasiet has been in Gothenburg for 20 years. Over the years, we have been able to help shape strong and independent individuals with a fantastic creative ability, and help them get ready for the next step in life.

In order for our students to get the most out of their high school years, we believe that raising awareness about teaching and the school as a whole is important.

We know that our students have great knowledge and many good ideas, therefore we give students the opportunity to be involved in the design and planning of teaching.

We believe that this contributes to the school becoming a wonderful place to go to every day, a safe space where you can be yourself and a stable platform to grow and develop for the future.

Mission and Objectives

Prepare our students for a life in a globalized world where mobility between countries and cultures will be more and more common. Increase knowledge and understanding of different cultures, religions, social and political systems etc. - Enhance mutual understanding and cross cultural communication.

Main Projects / Activities

- Enhance the internationalisation work in school through create possibilities of mutual exchanges where students can understand through experience, cultural, social, religious, economic and political dimensions of host culture.

- Every class has one part of the education located to another country.

- Offer education in cross cultural communication., global knowledge and international relations.

Contact (1) Full Name
Jonna Skarin
Head of the organisation
Martin Jonson (Headmaster)

PeaceWorks Sweden

National Network
Sweden
Address

Tegelviksgatan 40
11641 Stockholm
Sweden

Telephone
+46(0)70529661
E-Mail
nasma.salim@peaceworks.se
E-Mail (2)
julia.eriksson@peaceworks.se
E-Mail (3)
info@peaceworks.se
Mobile Phone
+46 (0)70 752 96 60 (Nasma)
Mobile Phone (other)
+46(0)70529663
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1974
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Environment/Sustainable development
  3. Human rights
  4. International/Cultural relations
  5. Others
  6. Youth and education
General Information

We are a non-profit peace organisation that works for the organisation and influence of young people in an equal and just society based on non-violence. We do this by making visible and challenging the expressions of violence that counteract the society we strive for. We give the tools and platform to do something concrete with the commitment to a more peaceful world. Membership is free.

The organisation is mainly funded by grants which the organisation applies for throughout the year. These include grants from the Swedish government, other local funds available in Sweden and the European Youth in Action programme. We are based in Sweden and in Colombia, working for youth participation for peace.

PeaceWorks Sweden works to promote peace, international solidarity and active citizenship through coordinating international voluntary service programmes through the European Solidarity Corps and supporting young people in Sweden to run their own peace projects.

Mission and Objectives

Objective: to offer international activities; organise exchange programmes; spread information and encourage discussion in national and international questions; all of which aim at increased knowledge, solidarity and understanding about social and global structures.

Vision: a sustainable world in peace, where young people are active citizens and society is characterised by peace and sustainable development, global justice and solidarity, above and beyond national, cultural, social and economic borders. PeaceWorks is a platform for young people's involvement in and commitment to peace and sustainable development.

By running projects, platforms and practical tools are created, providing the conditions for young people to participate in, creating an understanding for local and global contexts, on their own terms.

Main Projects / Activities

We provide platforms for young people engaging in projects regarding global justice, anti-racism and feminism, both nationally and internationally.

We also support youth to start their own projects, and/or associations through our workshops and materials created specifically to facilitate a simpler way to get engaged in important issues.

We hold many seminars and workshops on the topics of youth engagement, global justice, feminism and anti-racism.

Every year we give Erasmus+ projects on the topics both in Sweden and internationally.

Contact (1) Full Name
Nasma Salim
Job Title
Secretary General
Head of the organisation
Nasma Salim (Secretary General)
Contact (2) Full Name
Julia Eriksson
Job Title (2)
International project coordinator

Praktiska Gymnasiet Göteborg

National Network
Sweden
Address

Gröna gatan 28
414 54 Gothenburg
Sweden

Telephone
070-350 55 91
Telephone (other)
076-789 61 00
E-Mail
sandra.nyberg@praktiska.se
E-Mail (2)
annika.falmann@vindora.se
Organisation Type
Private Company
Year of Establishment
1999
Fields of Activity
  1. Youth and education
General Information
Göteborgs Praktiska Gymnasium (GPG) is an independent upper secondary vocational school with Baggium AB (Ltd) as the principal and Baggium has 23 schools in Sweden. The staff at GPG amount to 20 persons and the students are about 170. The budgetary resources at GPG is about 1 900 000 Euros a year and almost all of the sources of the funding is from the Swedish state based on the Swedish school system that every student has their own sum of money free to choose school. We have a Leonardo da Vinci project (27140 Euros) awarded to exchanges of vocational students with Turkey, collaboration with a vocational school in Gent, Belgium, contact with Culture Clinic, Gothenburg (two students to Ukraine). We have continuously seminars when our students return after a visit abroad. We have been awarded the title of model school from the National Agency of Education last year.
Mission and Objectives

Our mission is to give our students access to the labour market. They are connected to a workplace throughout the training period during, which 40-60% of the three-year education takes place with an instructor who follows the student’s work.
One of our objectives is to give the students possibility to employment at the company where they are trainees and approximately 75% of them is employed.
About the international part at GPG we have one objective to send as many students as possible to do a part of their practical training abroad, at the moment 10-15% of them do. That sum will increase ahead.

Main Projects / Activities

We have collaboration with three vocational schools in Turkey (Amasya, Ankara and Antalya) and we are sending students from the Vehicle- and the Textile programme for one month of practical training. This is a Leonardo da Vinci project and mostly of the economical support is from EU. We also have received students from Gent, Belgium as trainees (electricians) and we intent to send some of our students to them next year.

Contact (1) Full Name
Sandra Nyberg
Head of the organisation
Anders Hedman
Contact (2) Full Name
Annika Falmann

Rekarnegymnasiet

National Network
Sweden
Address

Krongatan 14
Eskilstuna
Sweden

Telephone
+46 16-7101859
Fax
+46 16 12 37 44
E-Mail
kitt.johnson@eskilstuna.se
Mobile Phone
+46 70 167 22 13
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
2007
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
  2. Youth and education
General Information
Rekarnegymnasiet is a big upper secondary school with 1440 students on both the academic and vocational programmes. Staff = 160 teachers… One person works 40% with international projects and different kinds of school partnership mostly in Europe so far. We have partner schools in Iceland, Greenland, Italy, Finland, Norway, Portugal.
Mission and Objectives

To give the students a possibility to get to know another at first hand European culture as we are all European citizens. When school classes come and visit us and when we travel to then the students always stay in host families to get to know the every day life better in the visited country. They attend each other’s classes at school and pay visits to difernet cultural places.

Main Projects / Activities

We would like to get in touch with other countries as well and focus more on historical events and also give the students a knowledge of the society itself.

Contact (1) Full Name
Kitt Johnson
Head of the organisation
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The Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society (MUCF)

National Network
Sweden
Address

Liedbergsgatan 4, 352 30 Växjö
35105 Växjö
Sweden

Telephone
0046(0)10-160 10 00 (växel)
E-Mail
lotta.rossner@mucf.se
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
1994
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Gender
  3. International/Cultural relations
  4. Research
  5. Youth and education
General Information

The Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society (MUCF) is a government agency that works to ensure that young people have access to influence and welfare. We also support the government in issues relating to civil society policy. MUCF is the organisation coordinating and administrating Erasmus+ programme in Sweden.  Our target groups are: - decision-makers - civil servants - organisations (working with young people, women, LGBTQ people, ethnic minorities etc.). MUCF produces and disseminates knowledge in two principal areas: Youth policy and policy focused on civil society. Youth policy There are a total of 1.6 million children, youths and young adults aged between 13 and 25 in Sweden. We produce knowledge on their living conditions across a range of areas such as work, housing, education, health, leisure time and influence. MUCF also has the task of working to ensure that the youth perspective is developed in the work of other state agencies and to provide support for the municipalities in their youth policy work. Civil society policy Civil society is a concept that is used to describe all types of organisations and associations that are not constituted by the state, the market or by individual households. One could also speak of the voluntary sector, i.e. when people come together and organise themselves because they have a common goal, ideal or interest of some kind. MUCF has the task of disseminating knowledge on prevailing conditions and trends in civil society. One important objective is that of improving conditions for associations, organisations and other voluntary sector activities.

Mission and Objectives

We achieve our objectives by: - producing and communicating knowledge about young people’s living conditions - following up the objectives set for national youth policy by the Riksdag (the Swedish Parliament) and the Government and supporting municipalities in their youth policy work - distributing funds to civil society organisations, projects and international cooperation - collecting and disseminating knowledge about civil society, its working conditions, composition and development - forming networks with relevant governmental agencies and organisations.

Main Projects / Activities

The Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society (MUCF) is distributing funds to the civil society in the form of support for organisations, projects and international cooperation. All the support we distribute is given on behalf of the Swedish government. MUCF's main activities include:  • follow up indicators for the national youth policy in close cooperation with other central governmental authorities • carry out every year an in-depth analysis of young people’s living conditions within a specially chosen area. • work in close interactions with researchers. • cooperate with municipalities in their work to develop methods for increasing their knowledge about young people. • arrange conferences for the exchange of experiences between municipalities. • cooperate with and subsidise a number of “local resource centres” for youth issues. • distribute funds from the Swedish Inheritance Fund to projects that attempt to end young people’s exclusion from the labour market. • distribute funds to national youth organizations. • work towards and intercultural understanding through different international exchange programs.

Contact (1) Full Name
Lotta Jarvenius Rössner
Job Title
Grants Officer
Head of the organisation
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The Swedish Writers' Union (Sveriges Författarförbund)

National Network
Sweden
Address

PB. 3157SE
103 63 Stockholm
Sweden

Telephone
+46-8-545 132 00
Telephone (other)
+468545 132 23
E-Mail
grethe.rottboll@forfattarforbundet.se
E-Mail (2)
info@forfattarforbundet.se
Mobile Phone
+4670-228 92 25
Mobile Phone (other)
+4670-550 98 03
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1972
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. Human rights
  4. International/Cultural relations
General Information

We are a union organization for writers or literary translators. We have been around since 1893 and have a long and solid experience in working with economic, legal and social issues related to the literary profession. 10 persons employed and 15 members of the board. Our main sources of funding include: member fees and grants Unesco, Sida, exchange projects in Vietnam, scholarships in Greece and in France.

Mission and Objectives

The Swedish Writers’ Union is the central professional organisation for writers and literary translators in Sweden. We safeguard the economic and moral interests of our members by defending freedom of expression and of the press, and keeping up to date with copyright stipulations and the laws regulating copyright. We promote the right of our members to a reasonable return on their work by safeguarding their moral rights, seeing to it that their works are not misrepresented or made public in ways not intended by them as authors, by entering into agreements which give our members financial gain and provide for their social security, and by protecting and aiding our members when, in the practice of their profession, they find themselves in conflict with employers, commissioning parties or the authorities.

Main Projects / Activities

WALTIC (Writers and Literary Translators' International Congress www.waltic.com http://www.forfattarforbundet.se/radgivning/ http://www.forfattarforbundet.se/stipendier/ http://www.forfattarforbundet.se/boende/

Contact (1) Full Name
Gunnar Adelius
Head of the organisation
Maria Andersson (Director)