The Minister and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage ensures the freedom of artistic life and the continued evolution of national culture, maintains and protects the nation’s cultural heritage and historical monuments, coordinates these duties and provides professional leadership for the sector and operates supervisory and professional organisations. The Minister’s and the ministry’s duties include, among other things, the registration, preservation and protection of cultural goods and making these treasures available to the public, and to provide guidance for activities related to public education and collections and for the works of creative and performing artists. Further activities: drawing up drafts of legislation on the subject, adopting decisions for placing historical monuments and archaeological sites under protection, the surveillance of museums, libraries, and archives, the preparation of international agreements on cultural subjects, the overseeing of the operations of foreign

“Open Doors” works and operates in the frame of the Barcelona’s Process and the Union for Mediterranean launched by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008. “Open Doors” main goal is to highlight the Albanian inter-cultural heritage, the harmonious co–habitation among various religious, ethnics and cultural communities. “Open Doors” work target is the introduction to culture, arts, traditions, beliefs and other values that shape the individualities of communities and nations. Engagement in upholding them will go hand in hand with the identification and promotion of common values and identical interests.

With our activities we bring an innovative vision to field of art and audio-visual media: those visions and the visions of those who are not taken into account by mass media and mainstream culture. We offer members of various communities means and creative space to express themselves and develop a self-conscious artistic point of view. We create awareness around issues that are not examined by traditional media and not represented at official cultural institutions.

The institution "Haus der offenen Tür" is part of the catholic church community named "St. Peter" in Sinzig and is an institution concerning youth work. Youth work is described in § 11 of the social law, the so called "SGB VIII". In cooperation with the civil community there is one colleague who works in the 3 in Sinzig situated schools as a social worker (§ 13 SGB VIII). Since July 2007 the "Kompetenzagentur" is a project of the institution. This project is part of the EMPOWERING YOUNG PEOPLE initiative of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and is funded by the European Social Fund (ESF). The task of this project is it to accompany young disadvantaged people in the age of 14 up to 27 to find their place in society. Competence agencies promote and improve the cooperation and coordination between the institutions and stakeholders after leaving school (networking). At the moment our main partners are: Youth migration services, Youth work, Youth welfare office, cultural institutions (museums, music Schools…) politicians, firms, companies, business, job centers, clubs and associations (sports, culture, music…), schools municipal administration. Since January 2009 the project "Schulverweigerung - die 2. Chance" (school refusal - the second chance) has begun its work with school drop outs and school refuseniks. This project is also part of the EMPOWERING YOUNG PEOPLE INITIATIVE of the Ministry and therefore also funded by the ESF. Political youth education and the European Voluntary Service are also part of the work.

The association’s work is based on three pillars: education to blind people, political education and cross-cultural competencies. The first one’s mission is to help blind people to find their place in society, to help them to cope self-confidently with their duties and to give them prospects for a self-determined future and to integrate them into society. Moreover, political education is in the opinion of the chair Mr Ouertani, one of the most important pillars of a democratic society. Political education in combination with intercultural awareness lay the foundations for a-with regards to politics- open-minded civil society and offers the key for socio-economic progress. This should be achieved by debates on norms, ethics and world views and by training for intercultural interaction and communication in form of seminars, presentations, workshops and an exchange between Tunisia and Germany for young persons in particular to prevent future conflicts and establish a sound cooperation.

NANK Kiel aims at the creation of a new culture of work that is defined by social economy and community production. For this purpose, NANK Kiel developed a concept for Centers for New Work and New Culture (as shown in the annex). These centers shall be used as institutional structures that enable people from all kinds of society to define their own work culture and to experience their own strengths and talents. The idea is to develop small-scale, local work that creates jobs by providing the community with necessary goods and services to make people more independent from “classical” paid work. This concept is oriented towards the “New Work and New Culture” by Prof Frithjof Bergmann (University of Michigan, USA). New Work and New Culture seeks to replace the traditional wage labor system with flexible forms of work that are oriented towards the actual needs of the people.

The Institute for European Studies aims to be a leading centre for research, teaching and publishing in all matters pertaining to the construction of a unified Europe.
Its main objectives are:
• Research activities in relation to European subjects and International Relations
• Scientific and teaching exchange with other research centres
• Teaching of European affairs with particular emphasis on postgraduate studies
• Organisation of activities and events relating to European and international issues
• Collaboration with important public and private institutions in the development of research projects and consulting activities in the field of European studies

AIPC-Pandora is a non-profit organization which has a global objective to study and understand the different cultures of the world in order to discover their individual values and traditions and of spreading them; promoting their integration in the world, and fostering the learning, communication and dialogue between all of them.
To achieve this we develop activities related to non-formal education, always in an intercultural context, and activities that foment the mobility of the people of the world. This includes voluntary work in another country as well as orientation, and programmes to encourage labour insertion into the local and national level.

The main goal of iEARN-Pangea is improve learning through Internet-based activities (collaborative projects) which are designed to promote the knowledge of other cultures and the education of values like peace and solidarity.

To build a multidisciplinary, multisector and multinational net that can contribute to the creation of a Mediterranean communication environment that fosters common visions, dialogue among people and fair, human development.