Spain

Recherche, diffusion du patrimoine culturel, etc.
Projets européens: Medtaste (Mediterranean taste for languages), industries culturelles Valle del Cauca et Cauca, Taste for Peace, Résau Ibertur, etc.

Our areas of work include the following:
? Applied research, on areas including cultural policy, culture and local development, cultural rights, creative industries, international cultural cooperation, etc.
? Multilateral cooperation, through the organisation of or participation in international debates, conferences, networks and publications on cultural matters.
? Information services, including monthly e-newsletter Cyberkaris.
? Training activities
? Advice and consultancy to public and private organisations in the field of culture.

The main projects currently being executed or waiting to be started are:
From the International Cooperation and Human Aid Department:
-Student exchange Program in Georgia:
-Enlargement of a building and academic cooperation with Hotel & Tourism School in Namibia
-Human Rights and social development seminars in Equatorial Guinea
-Construction of a Special Education School in Jericho
-University Spanish-Syrian Seminar
From the Academic Area:
-Set of activities, whose objectives are complementing university studies and promoting the values of solidarity in culture of every person interested in our activities. These courses are recognised with university credits by Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
-Meeting at Sant Jeroni de la Murtra
-Economy Meeting at S’Agaró

Our projects in the Euro-Mediterranean region are the following:
- Support to trade union training for the promotion and strengthening of workers’ actions as democratic agents in Algeria.
- Support to the programme of assessment to unemployed Arab women of Israel in order for them to become employed in the agricultural sector.
- Programme for the strengthening and training of metalworkers’ trade unions in Bosnia-Herzegovina , Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia.
- Awareness campaign for the respect of labour human rights of women workers in the countries of the South: Egypt, Colombia, Israel and Balkans Region.
- Programme for reciprocal visiting and training of teachers between the towns of Chefchaouen (Morocco) and Girona (Catalonia).
- Publishing of an audiovisual work related to the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Our main projects in Latin America are the following:
- Strengthening of trade union organizations from Central America for the accomplishment of the Strategic aims of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
- Strengthening of the organisation structure of the trade unions belonging to the cleaning sector in the Callao region of Peru, together with the promotion of a gender focus in those organisations.

o Career counseling and job placement for people with disabilities or in other vulnerable groups
o Employment for people with intellectual disabilities or in other vulnerable groups
o Child, adolescent, and disabled residential care
o Foster care
o Preschool management
o CSR consulting
o Training
o International development
o International programs and projects with people and organizations in the public, business, and social sectors
o Volunteering

Our activities are in the fields of:
- Participation and local development
- Mediation and Community Action
- Accessibility and Equal Opportunities
- Social inclusion: community plans, social creativity, sport, gender issues and evaluation
For each activity, FDC offers:
Research work
Consulting
Training
Services and Projects Management
Innovation and pilot projects
FDC has an International Area which promotes projects in these different fields at the European, Mediterranean, African and Latinamerican levels. Actually, FDC international activities is the continuity of the work done in Catalunya, so that the exchange of good practices in the field of Community Development contribute to build a more coherent, more democratic and more just society at both local, regional, national and international levels.

On July 2015, we won the XII Blas Infante Solidarity Prize 2015 with our "dream project" multi-cultural civic center.
http://www.casares.es/es/BLAS_INFANTE/-___Premios_Blas_Infante__Casares_...
http://casaresinformacionlocal.blogspot.com.es/2015/07/ongs-y-asociacion...

To optimize the prize and raise funds for the civic center, we decided to organize three to five educational solidarity days through lectures, workshops on social, health and personal development, ecology-feeding and other activities (such as social relational art, music and cuisine from around the world) on weekends throughout 2016.
This series of specific activities in a day would replicate the model of the civic center and would finance the final project, a Multicultural Civic Center.
We want to promote interrcultural exchange through arts and creative process, personal development and education for immigrants, youth and  people on risk of social exclusion.
At the same time, we participate with the Time Bank Network of Palma and Adventreks Eco-Society and Welfare Association in India.It focuses on humanitarian projects in India for the integration and development of children, oppressed communities and impoverished families.

Our projects are focused in the socio-labour inclusion of disadvantaged gropus through employment and entrepreneurship projects.
In 2014 we have run 25 projects, 19 of them still implementing and the rest finished during the first part of 2015. The total number of beneficiaries of our projects is more than 2600.
The activities are the following:
• 18 employment programs.
• 5 projects on entrepreneurship for youth at risk.
• 1 project on micro-financing to women.
• 3 projects on social entrepreneurship for NGO that will generate employment.
• 1 research on market niches for the youth entrepreneurship.
In 2015 we started to work in social action interventions in development countries. We are transferring the methodology of the Employment shuttles (Vives People), to the project "Livelihood Initiatives to foster employability and entrepreneurship of IDPs (Internal Displaced Persons) and host populations in Georgia - LIFE Georgia", funded by the Development and Cooperation - EuropeAid Directorate-General of the European Commission.

The Mediterranean Citizens’ Assembly Foundation undertakes or participates in the:
- Organisation of meetings, workshops and seminars.
- Participation in projects, initiatives or actions in the Mediterranean, with special attention to youth and women…
- Creation of Mediterranean local citizens’ circles in different countries of the basin.
- Edition of publications and other output.
- Design of priorities, common strategies and specific proposals.
- All other activities considered to be appropriate to reach the objectives.
Since its new formal structure (2016), the foundation has been especially active in the following initiatives:
- Organisation of local cultural seminars and large events such as the Mostra Viva del Mediterrani (Valencia, October 2016).
- Organisation of a workshop about food security during the Medcop international conference (Tangier, July 2016), together with several Mediterranean partners and presentation of the Declaration about Food and Agriculture Transition, coordinated by the MCAF and already signed by around 30 organisations in the Mediterranean. Submission of a workshop for the COP22 (Marrakech, November 2016).
- Participation in activities of the Workshop of the Young Citizens’ of the Mediterranean.
- Contribution to submit a Europe for Citizens Programme project proposal. Possible participation as an associate in an Erasmus Plus project.
- Creation and coordination of an expert group in the field of the humanitarian crisis and the refugees in the Eastern Mediterranean, with the aim to establish recommendations and to design actions to be undertaken by the MCAF.
- Update and publication of a book summarizing the ideas behind the MCA and its activities since its creation in 2010 (October 2016).
- Participation in official conferences held (or to be held in the near future) by Euro-Mediterranean organisations (Euro-Mediterranean University-EMUNI, Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, Anna Lindh Foundation, European Parliament, etc.).

As depositaries of Al Fanar’s documentary archive we have the duty to enlarge and foment it use as a source of information for academics, journalists and general people interested in the Arab World. We also create specific bulletins like the “Bulletin of renewable energy in the Arab world”.
Al Fanar also translates texts and documents written in Spanish into Arabic, like the IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook.
Also Al Fanar collaborate in other type of projects of collaboration, translationand interchange of opinions between Arab and Spanish authors like an exhibition called “Palestinian history and identity through graphic humor”, or the creation of the three lingual (Spanish, Arabic and English) comic Babili’s Home (www.casababili.org), based on a Iraqi novel and illustrated by Spanish artists.