ALF Hands-On: Open Call for Participation! - Second Cycle
A series of National Network workshops has been organized by the Anna Lindh Foundation Network Members of Cyprus, Cyprus Refugee Council and Civil Society Advocates
A series of National Network workshops has been organized by the Anna Lindh Foundation Network Members of Cyprus, Cyprus Refugee Council and Civil Society Advocates
A series of National Network workshops has been organized by the Anna Lindh Foundation Network Members of Cyprus, Cyprus Refugee Council and Civil Society Advocates
As a member of the international collaboration A-Place, LOOP is organising the third open call to commission a video production to investigate the process of creating a sense of place in one of the six cities participating in the project. (Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Lisbon, Ljubljana and Nicosia).
The LOOP Festival, together with LOOP Fair (part of the annually-scheduled and worldwide art-market events) and LOOP Studies (its generator and repository of knowledge), is a platform that features films and videos of international artists in a series of exclusive events that take place every year and are attended by professionals that come to Barcelona from all corners of the globe. After nineteen editions, it has become an unavoidable meeting point that screens 200–500 videos exhibited at 80–100 venues in the city and its surroundings. More than 400 platforms and agents are actively involved in the festival and it attracts an audience estimated around 120,000 visitors.
The purpose of this call is to invite multidisciplinary artists to explore and widen the meaning of place in our multicultural, interconnected societies. The aim is to produce a video that presents, documents, deconstructs, expands, speculates, challenges, fictionalises, etc. the experience of creating places. The production of the video is an activity that is carried out within the social dynamics of urban space with the aim of developing a sense of place that overcomes any existing physical, social or cultural inertia.
Application deadline: 28 February
For more information visit: https://loop-barcelona.com/a-place-call/
Samou 7, Lefkosia 1086
Lefkosia
Cyprus
AccessArts aims to build on its continued efforts to provide an indispensable network connecting and promoting artists, cultural organisations, creative businesses and people with arts interests both at home and throughout the EU.
AccessArts is a non-funded and non-profiting web-based organisation offering a range of services comprising the following:
? Up-to-date info & business directories
? Full cultural events listings for Cyprus as well as Cyprus artists exhibiting/performing abroad
? Creative job/opportunity news & listings
? Arts related news features (in Greek, Turkish & English)
? Links to European arts organisations and other useful international contacts info
? Online galleries for the promotion of Cyprus based artists working in any creative media
? An online forum
? Website design and maintenance
? Translation service – Greek/Turkish/English
13 Riga Fereos Street
Makedonitissa
2413 Nicosia
Cyprus
ACK CREATIVE LTD is a Private Company that supports the arts, social sciences and humanities. Found and established in 2020 by Anna-Christina Kattou, the organization has an online archive and website accessible worldwide. We have a keen interest in international artistic collaboration and in organizing competitions while hosting artists in residency whose projects requires to be enriched by joined support system across the field of humanities. ACK CREATIVE is also interested to create events,cultural conversations, artistic projects, launch courses and collaborate with individual artists, organisation and educational institutes. At the moment the creative director Anna-Christina Kattou is working full time and there is another two people working part- time related with particular projects with the potential to be employed full time in the future based on the needs of the NGO and their increase. Our budget at the moment is as low as 1500 euros per year and we are trying hard to find sources of funding in order to increase our funds and be able to do more projects and activities.
Our mission and our objectives are: 1) Support of the arts, social sciences and humanities in relation with different projects that involved the public. 2) Enrichment of education and change of perception through the arts and social sciences 3) Support of local and international artists in order to offer financial support and employment 4) Support of research related with the arts and social sciences (support of PhD students).
1) Arts competition with cash prize for the winner. Includes an event for the nomination. 2) Theater and music performances. 3) Networking events with cultural dialogue and projections.
ACK CREATIVE LTD can contribute in my country in relation with the following aspects: 1) Offer opportunities for cultural conversation for young people and people of different ages. 2) Establish a more stable and professional network for independent or group research related with cultural, arts and humanities projects. 3) Create and share a common developed perception for the arts in relation with the needs of our society in my country. 4) Empower young people to create a policy for the arts and humanities in my country. 5) Create a movement for culture in relation with citizens of my country in order to enrich their theoretical knowledge and expand their practical skills.
I want to join the ALF Network for the following reasons: 1) To have access on a great network as such in order to meet new people and organisations and collaborate with them. 2) I want to learn new things and expand my knowledge and understanding on cultural projects. 3) I am interested to exchange ideas and collaborate under the spirit of team work within a professional spectrum. 4) I want to learn how to be more creative and use my creative ideas in order to produce something important in collaboration with others. 5) I want to have my voice heard as a woman while being a creative director and promote my NGO which is very creative and unique while helping other artists as well.
Association for the Support of People with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - ADHD CYPRUS
PO Box 12187,
2341 Nicosia, Cyprus
Nicosia
Cyprus
Our Vision, Mission & Goals
Is To improve the lives of all those affected by AD/HD in Cyprus by offering support,
information, education and advocacy, so that we can fulfil our vision of an empowered and
integrated AD/HD community.
To raise awareness in Cyprus so that AD/HD sufferers are understood, accepted and
empowered to become active, contributing members of society.
To ensure that AD/HD children receive timely diagnosis and educational assistance
through the Ministry of Education.
To ensure that AD/HD sufferers have access to a reasonable range of effective
medications through the Ministry of Health and that AD/HD is recognized as a
chronic condition.
ADD-ADHD CYPRUS Achievements
Support
o 2009 Expanded Walk-In Centre in Nicosia, offering support, information and training
o 2009 Multidisciplinary Team of Specialists for primary and secondary support
o 2000 Emotional support group monthly meetings began.
o 2004 Monthly support meetings were launched with parent/teacher leaders island-wide
Information
o 2005 Produced information leaflets, booklets, DVD’s in Greek, Turkish and English and
reprinted in 2010 (EEA NGO Fund Grant)
o 2005 informative website and redesigned as information portal 2012
o 2005 to date - newsletter
Education/Training
o Annual Open Training in AD/HD for parents, teachers and therapists in memory of Goula
Stylianidou, child neurologist who tragically died in 2008.
o Regular Parent/Teacher seminars offered since 2009.
o 2008 & 2009 workshops for Pediatricians (trained more than 150 doctors island wide in
AD/HD and commorbidities by Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists Dr. Nikos Myttas and
Dr. Julietta Kali-Laouri)
o Trained 300 parents in parenting skills by qualified trainers 2006-2010
o Trained 60 ‘Train the Trainers’ for Teachers and Advocates in schools and community –
2 yr programme 2006-2008
o Awareness Media Presentation to Private & Public schools, through the Ministry of
Education and Parents Associations 2008 - 2010
o Annual European AD/HD Awareness Week events and activities island-wide since 2008.
Advocacy
o Education
Annual circulation of AD/HD leaflet to all 1st grade families distributed through
Ministry of Education.
Training programmes at primary and secondary levels to all teachers.
o Health
Made available medications through Ministry of Health ‘one pill a day’ which
removed the stigma from children needing a medication ‘top up’ at school.
2011 All AD/HD medications made available for FREE to all ‘pink card’ holders
o Education/Health Collaboration
Lobbied and liaised with the Ministries of Education and Health to train 600+
primary and secondary school teachers and develop special education in Cyprus
with Dr. Loretta Giorcelli OAM, and 300 Doctors by Dr. Paul Hutchins,
Pediatric Consultant, both from Australia.
2010 Submitted suggestions for needs to Commissioner of Children’s Rights
Members of following Networks in Cyprus:
o Founding Partner of Learning Difficulties Network of Cyprus (Bicommunal)
o Cyprus Network for Youth Development (Bicommunal)
o Cyprus Community Media Centre (CCMC) (Consortium of bicommunal orgs)
o Scientific Committee member of annual parent congress “Οι Γονείς Εκπαιδεύονται”
o Member of Pancyprian Volunteers Coordinative Council
o Member of ADHD-EUROPE since 2010
o ADHD Norge & ADHD samtökin joined ADHD Cyprus Advisory Board and ADHD
experts from Norway and Iceland joined ADHD Cyprus Professional Board.
P.O. Box 12187, 2341 Nicosia, Cyprus
Nicosia
Cyprus
Is To improve the lives of all those affected by AD/HD in Cyprus by offering support, information, education and advocacy, so that we can fulfil our vision of an empowered and integrated AD/HD community.
• To raise awareness in Cyprus so that AD/HD sufferers are understood, accepted and empowered to become active, contributing members of society.
• To ensure that AD/HD children receive timely diagnosis and educational assistance through the Ministry of Education.
• To ensure that AD/HD sufferers have access to a reasonable range of effective medications through the Ministry of Health and that AD/HD is recognized as a chronic condition.
Lectures
Seminars
Support Groups
Guidance/Coaching
Advocacy
Hot-line
John Kennedy Str., Iris House, 8th Floor, Office 840A
3106 Limassol
Cyprus
AEQUITAS is a non-partisan, non-profit organization which is dedicated to the promotion of Human Rights Education, Citizenship Education and Intercultural Education in Cyprus. More particularly, AEQUITAS holds that these three interrelated areas are necessary ingredients for a democratic, tolerant and just society. Our wesbite is an educational tool for human rights and our newsletter, circulated every two months, is dedicated to a particular human rights issue so as to serve as an educational tool for the reader. We also seek to carry out awareness raising campaigns on a variety of human rights issues as well as promote human rights debate.
We have carried out a series of seminars for several local youth groups on the topic of human rights education, using activities from COMPASS. We are in the process of organizing several more such seminars. We have applied for two projects under the Youth in Action Programme on the topics of human rights education and environmental education. We are also developing a project on the training for teachers on issues of anti-bullying within the human rights perspective in cooperation with a Greek educational institution. We are also in the process of preparing another project in conjunction with a local and international NGO on the issue of LGBTI and human rights. Two other developing projects include a workshop for adult learners and a learning partnership project.
Human Righs Educaiton and Intercultural Education are paramount for any social dialogue. As the first organization in Cyprus dedicated to these objectives we hope to be an advantage to the Network in our country. We will actively participate in the activities of the network, promote the network and the opportunities offered therefrom as well as develop new fruitful ideas of cooperation with networks in other countries.
At the core of the ALF lies the promotion of intercultural dialogue which constitutes one of our three main objectives. In this light, it would be a significant development for us to be part of such a network. By joining the ALF Network, our NGO, we will gain from the support offered therefrom and also will provide us with the opportunity to network with like minded organizations as well as benefit from activities and grant schemes of the Network. These points are paramount for any NGO, especially one that is newly incorporated. Further, the size and diversity of the network are very attractive for us and will serve as a coherent framework through which we can advance our aims and missions vis-à-vis solidarity, tolerance and respect. We also hope to benefit from the training seminars which, once again, will greatly benefit us as a newly incorporated NGO.
The NGO Support Centre and Rooftop Theatre, as co-heads of the Cyprus Network of Anna Lindh Foundation, organised an online workshop for NGOs in Cyprus which was attended by 30 participants, representing various NGOs based in Cyprus.
The workshop aimed at informing members of the Cyprus Network and other NGOs in undestanding how the ALF can financially support their initiatives and encourage intercultural collaboration.
Specifically it aimed at presenting the following:
a) the Anna Lindh Foundation and the work of its Cyprus Network.
b) the upcoming opportunity for funding available through the ALF Call for Proposals 2020, for projects on Arts and Culture for Intercultural Dialogue:
- What is the key to understanding the guidelines of ALF Call for Proposals?
- How can the Cyprus Network support you in finding project partners?
- Are there any simple strategies to help prepare for the Call for Proposals?
When?
Thursday, 30th of April, 16:00 - 18:00
Where?
This online workshop was hosted on Zoom.