Belgium

IAMIC focuses on three main projects: The Annual Conference and Meeting is every year organised in another member country and is the summum of exchange among members and key stakeholders of music life in the hosting country. It results in enhanced knowledge on accessibility of foreign artists in the organising country and gives more insight in salient issues in the music world.. The Office Exchange Programme is based on the principles of intercultural dialogue, cultural diplomacy and life-long learning. Participants get the opportunity to work in another Center and get in touch with the foreign music life and practices. It results in enhanced cooperation, expertise and sustainable projects. The Music Monitor aims at creating an instrument to standardise data gathering among Music Information Centers in a sustainable way, taking into account the differences between countries and provides annual statistics for use in research and planning by governmental authorities, cultural operators, and funding bodies.

Seminars, camps, training courses, educational projects. We have put into place a long-term strategy focusing on inclusion of disadvantaged young people in our activities and decision-making processes. The strategy, 'All Together', provides the space to share and train local group leaders and support them in reaching out more effectively. We also focus on peace and sustainable development education in our middle east youth for peace project and our climate change work.

IPHR is currently a partner in a Central Asia human rights project financed by the EU (which includes development of publications, advocacy, etc.). It is also busy organising an advocacy event in Brussels later this spring for a delegation of human rights defenders from the Gulf region. There are a number of other projects in the pipeline, including one proposal for a project in the Occupied Territories. In addition to these activities, IPHR regularly acts as a consultant on various human rights related issues for a number of NGOs.

• art à l’école: le programme MUS-E® introduit les arts à l’école primaire afin de développer la créativité des enfants, de libérer leur potentiel créateur et de prévenir ainsi la violence et le racisme en encourageant l’harmonie et l’esthétique dès le plus jeune âge.
• art et dialogue Interculturel: l’Assemblée des Cultures de l’Europe (ACE) donne une voix aux groupes culturels non représentés en créant une plate-forme à travers laquelle ces groupes puissent s’exprimer au niveau européen. • arts en scène: les concerts thématiques multiculturels unissent les voix de plusieurs cultures à travers la musique, le chant ou la danse.

Projet de centre culturel tunisien mettant en valeur les principes de démocratie, du respect de la dignité humaine et la créativité. Ce projet a pour but de favoriser le rapprochement entre la communauté tunisienne en Europe et les Européens, au coeur d'un espace de citoyenneté active, d’échange et de dialogue entre les Tunisiens et d'autres cultures présentes à Bruxelles ou ailleurs.

Research in nanotechnology, leukemia, irrigation with treated waste water, and history of water; development of science education with materials produced by French, Palestinians, and Israelis.

Target groups
ITECO addresses a broad audience interested in questions of development at home and abroad, social action, North-South relations and solidarity.
To achieve maximum impact, ITECO gives priority to training intermediaries, trainers and moderators including :
Social-cultural facilitators, moderators of social movements and lifelong training, migrant organizations, youth organizations.
Workers in the social sector : social workers, teachers, staff in psycho-medico-social centers, family-planning centers.
Trainers and educational movements.
Facilitators in the sectors of cooperation, sustainable development and international solidarity (development education, peace education, environmental education, gender education and antiracism).
Method
The basic educational system consists of four integrated dimensions that enable the participants to better understand where they stand in society, how society functions, how they can act and who could be the eventual partners.
ITECO prefers to question society and to ask what can change it, than to offer simple answers for successful development.
An important part of our educational action questions the mechanisms of power and the way these are perpetuated or challenged by individuals, social groups, organizations, and cultural models. We emphasize the importance of analyzing the ways that choices, behaviors and discourses are conditioned, and the socially explainable constraints underlying spontaneous attitudes. This reveals the steps that can lead to freer, more conscious choices geared to action.
We feel that it is helpful to be aware of what determines and conditions the participants because, once they have discovered these borders, they can negotiate choices more effectively and develop criteria for taking action.
All of our educational activities relate to this simple educational system, which embodies our conditions. We identify :
A personal dimension, in which participants’ intentions and plans are determined, and the factors that influence their social determination. This is the discovery of « what I am and what I want ».
A context dimension, in which the major mechanisms working in society are discovered : the economy, politics, social groups ; and cultural determination.
An action dimension, by which people take responsibility for acting in the world.
A partnership dimension, because one cannot do social work alone. Action requires others - groups, institutions and persons. Criteria must be developed to choose alliances and the conditions for collaboration.
The educational work we do consists of integrating these four dimensions in a single process. Rather than transmitting knowledge to our target groups, we develop knowledge for action with them.
ITECO thus adheres to adult education methods based on active learning rather than the idea that learning is simply a transmission of knowledge. The tenet of these educational methods is that people learn better by becoming actors in their own training process. In this spirit, we enable participants’ experience and knowledge to play an important part, use active exercises, simulation games and analysis grids. This active and inductive educational method, symbolized by the compass we present to our trainees, helps us to reinforce civil society in the north as an agent for change in north-south relations.
Fields of action
ITECO carries out its mission by means of four educational processes :
Training.
Advice to associations and institutions in the form of educational support, monitoring and assessment.
Making the most of experience and developing a systematic methodology.
Work on partnerships and networking.
ITECO is a training centre approved by the Ministry of the French Community of Belgium as an adult education centre. ITECO is also approved as a non-governmental organisation for development education by the Belgian Ministry of development cooperation and profits from the support from the European Commission.