Cyprus Array

Sistema Cyprus

National Network

Cyprus

Address

40 Apollonos
1010 Nicosia
Cyprus

Telephone

0035722663030

E-Mail

info@sistemacyprus.com

Website

http://www.sistemacyprus.com

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Year of Establishment

2018

Fields of Activity

Arts
Democracy and community development
Human rights

General Information

The organisation is managed by the core team which consists of the three founding members, an additional member who is in charge of securing Grants and designing Educational Programmes for the organisation and the Artistic Director. We employ 5 staff and 12 part time music teachers. Despite the fact that it is a newly established organisation, Sistema Cyprus has set up strong and viable partnerships with important supporters, thus ensuring its presence in the years to come. Among these supporters are the Nicosia Municipality, UNHCR Cyprus, Mohari Hospitality, the Yiannis Christodoulou Foundation, The University of Nicosia, Sistema Europe Association, the European Association of Music in Schools, the Global Leaders Program, The Community Arts Network and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute and more.

Mission and Objectives

Sistema Cyprus is a social-music orchestra programme established in 2018. Sistema Cyprus offers music education to the children and young people of Cyprus, including migrants, refugees and children and young people with fewer opportunities, and ensures that these groups are respected, recognised, and included in the society.
Sistema Cyprus is inspired by the El Sistema social action music programme that was first founded in Venezuela in 1975. Through the formation of orchestras and choirs, El Sistema acts as a superb model, reaching children and young people to many of the world’s challenging neighbourhoods. El Sistema and other El Sistema inspired programs, like ours, offer free classical music education that gives children and youth with fewer opportunities all over the world the opportunity for personal development. Sistema Cyprus is focused on the personal development of its participants focusing primarily on empowerment and helping them in reaching their full potential.

Main Projects / Activities

Sistema Cyprus String and Percussion orchestras with 120 children living in Nicosia.

Sistema Cyprus Winds and Percussion Orchestra with 40 children liiving in Larnaca.

Community music workshops in shelters of unaccompanied refugee minors in Nicosia and Larnaca.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

We could help in order to establish music as a tool for social inclusion, integration, intercultural and civil society dialogue.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

To build strong collaborations with other organisations and to work together towards common goals including the promotion of intercultural and civil society dialogue.

Additional Information

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Contact (1) Full Name

Nikoletta Polydorou

Job Title

Executive Director

Head of the organisation

Nikoletta Polydorou

Contact (2) Full Name

Myria Kkali

Job Title (2)

Communication and Marketing officer

Publication

Education

Cities

Culture

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Socialist Women's Movement (SWM)

National Network

Cyprus

Address

Nicosia
Nicosia
Cyprus

Telephone

22476000

E-Mail

eleninkaraoli@hotmail.com

Mobile Phone

99430688

Mobile Phone (other)

99489922

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Year of Establishment

1988

Fields of Activity

Democracy and community development
Gender
Human rights
Youth and education

General Information

SWM is an NGO, working in a panciprian basis. We have district council and a panciprian board of administration. We are mostly a voluntary based NGO, we have one employee. We are member to Socialist International Women and Party of European Socialists Women. We have annual subscriptions and we have an annual funding from the National Mechanism of Women's Rights (Ministry of Justice). In addition we have funding on ad hoc projects from EU and or EEA Grands. Our main activities are seminars, and training workshops, informative campaigns. In addition to the above we are funding members of the Cyprus Women's Lobby (member of the European Women's Lobby) and of the National Antipoverty Network (member of the European Antipoverty Network). In addition we are members of the National Machinery of Women's Rights (Ministry of Justice).

Mission and Objectives

Aims / goals of the SWM Our driving forces are feminism, democracy, socialism and solidarity. a) Activate women as social, political and economic factors. b) Elevate the status of Cypriot women in an environment of parity and equality. c) Establish friendship and solidarity among women from all over the world. d) Be involved in national issues, aiming for the liberation of the occupied part of our country from the foreign occupation. e) The safeguarding of human rights for all citizens regardless their religion, race, language, nationality or sex.

Main Projects / Activities

We are a grass root organization, therefore, we focus on activities and projects that are mainly needed for our members, like informative seminars and training workshops on equality, stereotypes, pensions rights, workers rights, health rights, trafficking, violence for women and children. We are also active in main gender issues such as pay gap, parity at all levels of decision making, participation, elevation of woman in the business environment, maternity/paternity rights, as well as the protection of human rights in general and or specific (LGTB rights, refugees and migrants protection). For all these issues, we do have seminars, workshops open not only for our members but any interested person, as well as we held, organize and or participate in campaigns promoting all the above. Last but not least, we do work towards reconciliation and a viable solution to the Cyprus Problem, based on UN and EU principles and we are working on closing the gap that the 42 years of separation created between Cypriots of the two main communities. In order to be even more active in that field, we are members of the Cyprus Dialogue Forum.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

We are a female organization, a grass root female organization. We are active in our field of work. We believe that being a member of the ALF Network in Cyprus will provide us the opportunity to work even closer with other members towards commons goals. In addition we believe in the dynamics of networks and in the cooperation that can be achieved through the network at all levels.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

Being a member of the biggest network on civil society organizations in the Mediterranean region will provide us with the opportunity to, not only work in a national level with other Cypriot NGOs, but also be able to find partners and work towards the accomplishment of our objectives in the whole Mediterranean sea. It is our common home, the problems are the same and we should work together to find solutions and compact them.

Contact (1) Full Name

Eleni Karaoli

Head of the organisation

Ms. Roulla Mavronikola

Symposium (Humanitarian Organisation) LLC

National Network

Cyprus

Address

PO BOX 60280, 8101 PA
Paphos
Cyprus

Telephone

00357-26-943075

E-Mail

ddenberna@yahoo.com

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Year of Establishment

2011

Fields of Activity

Youth and education

General Information

Classical Greece defined symposium as the meal where rich and poor alike, came together and conversed over food and wine, about their community’s shared concerns. Symposium is a not-for-profit company, largely staffed by a female board of directors, whom have been long involved in charity and community work, elected for limited terms and with voting rights. Supported by three permanently staffed employees; an operations manager, a project manger and writer, and an administrative worker, as well as a dedicated team of local fundraisers and volunteers whom are charged with the day-to-day operations. Symposium’s present-day work in rural Cyprus, long neglected by the majority of Nicosia based non-profits, focuses on progressive community development and stakeholder empowerment. Symposium’s rural efforts complement with the EURO-MED agenda for local and regional democratic development of the ALF network partners.

Mission and Objectives

Mission: Empowerment of marginalized stakeholders, the silent majority including men, women, children, elderly and migrant workers. Enhancing stakeholder engagement and education in the rural community that enhance grass roots democracy and socio-economic empowerment, in rural society, whilst concurrently supporting sustainable political and institutional development and enhancing the cultural perception of marginalized stakeholders. Objectives: (1). Improving rural marginalized stakeholder’s cultural perception, that enhances both their own, and that of the wider community’s political and socio-economic status. Promoting democratic institutional development and publishing social scientific research about stakeholder empowerment; (2). Generating socio-cultural awareness by sensitizing policymakers, public institutions and the public majority of marginalized stakeholder issues so as to enhance grass roots democracy and community decision making; (3). Providing stakeholder engagement and education that enhances their democratic, human rights and legally awareness, by enhancing marginalized stakeholder’s knowhow and voice in community participation and fairer public institutional decision-making.

Main Projects / Activities

AIDS / HIV Trainer Seminars and Community Awareness Raising 45 men and women educators and NGO trainers were trained to give HIV/AIDS education to vulnerable stakeholders. By raising gender health awareness about the threat of STD and reproductive health. The seminars raised issues of inadequate public health awareness education in schools, and how that could be rectified through informal ‘community’ discussions with teenagers and parents. Migrant Worker Seminars and Workshops An empowerment project/informational forum teaching marginalized stakeholders about their human rights, democracy and how to better legally organize themselves against public institutional human rights abuses. The seminars trained European Union and Third Country National migrant workers about their immigration issues, law, human rights and employment rights. Ending with interactive problem solving workshops to put their experiences to paper.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

Symposium offers the ALF network in Cyprus and its Euro-Mediterranean partners a human understanding of marginalized rural stakeholder’s grass-roots challenges in democratic empowerment and community decision making, be they socio-economic developmental, legal, gender empowerment and environmental challenges that marginalized stakeholders continually face. Symposium, as the Cyprus ALF network, champions marginalized rural stakeholders, helping build sustainable democratic, inclusive and sustainable community institutions that meet their needs. By raising awareness of these problems, Cypriot NGOs, within the ALF network can lobby in the media to encourage politic debates for stakeholder inclusiveness. Cypriot NGOs within the ALF network are likely to play a crucial role in encouraging public institutional catharsis to support marginalized stakeholder’s community involvement and political empowerment

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

Unlike the majority of Cypriot urban NGO’s, we support the neglected rural stakeholders whom we believe have an important societal role in the cultural, political and socio-economic fabric of a democratic and unified Cyprus. The ALF network provides the accumulated expertise and partnerships to enhance socio-cultural engagement and quality of service provision to rural stakeholders through grass roots democracy and stakeholder empowerment initiatives, which remain woefully weak in Cyprus. By joining the ALF Network, Symposium works towards enhancing grass roots democracy for traditionally marginalized rural stakeholders who have had little community ‘voice’ and decisional political power. The ALF Network NGOs partnership enables Symposium’s socio-political transformational enhancement of traditional rural and women stakeholder’s community decisional power, helping them build grass roots democratic accountability within uniquely Cypriot democratic and political institutions, that support sustainable and objective policy development by local stakeholders.

Contact (1) Full Name

Bernadette Dean Doedens

Head of the organisation

Bernadette Dean Doedens

SYNTHESIS Center for Research and Education Ltd

National Network

Cyprus

Address

Markou Drakou 28
LATSIA
1102 NICOSIA
Cyprus

Telephone

+357-99571660

Fax

+357-22774470

E-Mail

isaias@synthesis-center.com

E-Mail (2)

info@synthesis-center.com

Mobile Phone

+357-99571660

Organisation Type

Other

Year of Establishment

2002

Fields of Activity

Research
Youth and education

General Information

We are a pioneering enterprise, which promotes social entrepreneurship across the island and implements projects of positive social change. In view of promoting social entrepreneurship across the divided country and contribute to peace and reconciliation, we are based in the United Nations’ “buffer zone” of the divided city of Nicosia. Our philosophy is that “social entrepreneurship makes people, better human beings; it contributes to the development of tolerance, understanding, empathy, and caring for others,” leaving the seeds of racism and xenophobia to dry out. We are working to promote social entrepreneurship through training, research, motivational speaking, and promotional activities. We are the organisers of the only European Conference on Social Entrepreneurship that is held on the island, bringing together practitioners, policy makers, academics and teachers from Cyprus and abroad. We offer customised training programmes for aspiring young entrepreneurs, small business owners, teachers, and policy makers. We also offer an exclusive blended learning course Entrepreneurship Training programme, suitable to young people with no business studies or background. We have more than ten years experience in European cooperation, including monitoring and evaluation of projects funded by the European Union and the Norwegian Fund. We have been working with European partners in developing and implementing projects of educational and social value in fields such as personal development, entrepreneurship, employment, inclusion, migrant integration, and culture heritage. Our partners include universities, NGOs, associations, and European networks. Our staff and associates have advanced degrees in education, business, social and political sciences. We are soon launching the award-winning “Hub Nicosia” in Nicosia’s buffer zone offering space, networking opportunities and support services to budding entrepreneurs from both divided communities; the co-working hub which has received the Stelios Award for Business Cooperation in Cyprus 2013 (set up and given by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of easyJet). In the current decade, we focus on actions that can "open people's minds," improve social inclusion, and have a green and sustainable effect on the planet we live on.

Mission and Objectives

Our mission is to

contribute to the promotion of entrepreneurship for social and/or environmental good, instead of profit maximisation

empower people and communities

contribute to the development of a culture of peace and reconciliation
Our partners are NGOs, universities, enteprises, associations, european networks

Main Projects / Activities

Some of our recent projects are the following:

Hub Nicosia--a Hub for Social Entrepreneurs across the dividing line

Future Europe – Best practices in Digital Competencies and Migrant Integration

Take Care—Healthcare Language Guide for Migrants—which aims primarily to enable migrants to gain language skills about health care matters in a new language and improve their integration to the local society

DAISS2--Diagnostics for Enterprise Soft Skills—which provides an assessment tool for soft skills for enterprise and entrepreneurship

AGnovel – Advanced graphic novels for mobile devices—which creates and puts into use an innovative approach to foreign language learning by developing a new type of graphic novel that can be used on mobile devices

Under My Wing--An entreprenereurial training programme for non-business graduates

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

We can work to promote the ideals of the Anna Lindh Foundation and contribute to the success of the local network.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We share the ideals of the ALF Network and experienced already some of its activities.

Contact (1) Full Name

ISAIAS GEORGE

Job Title

Director

Head of the organisation

George Isaias

Contact (2) Full Name

Irene Antoniou

Job Title (2)

Project Administrator

Terra Cypria

National Network

Cyprus

Address

PO Box 50257
3602 Limassol
Cyprus

Telephone

357-25-358632

Fax

357-25-352657

E-Mail

director@terracypria.org

Website

http://www.terracypria.org

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Year of Establishment

1995

Fields of Activity

Environment/Sustainable development
Youth and education

General Information

Terra Cypria is a non-profit NGO, active in environmental education and environmental protection. We maintain our headquarters in Limassol and have rehabilited the abandoned primary scholl in the mountain community of Kritou Terra, transforming it into an Environmental Studies Center for young students and a site of Bicommunal Summer Camps for young Turkish and Greek Cypriots. Terra Cypria employs 9 professional and 4 technical/support staff and our annual budget is around 500,000 euros. We offer environmental education courses to children and youth from both sides of the green line in Cyprus, the EU and the Middle East. We have observer status in the proceedings of the Standing Committee of the Bern Convention for the protection of Wildlife and Habitats, we are members of the Executive Committees of EEB, ECOS and Eurosite, participate in the Parliamentary Committee for Environment, partner with other Greek Cypriot & Turkish Cypriot NGOs and are active in the bicommunal reconciliation process.

Mission and Objectives

The Foundation's objectives are twofold: to sensitise the decision-makers of today through seminars, reports and other activities directed at Parliament, Government and specific target groups within the community. Terra Cypria regularly participates in the discussions of the Parliamentary Committee for the Environment. The second objective is to educate the citizens of tomorrow, i.e. school pupils and students, so that they in turn may deal with the earth and its resources more responsibly. The Centre has been in operation since 1996 offering courses to local elementary schools, secondary schools from Cyprus and the Middle East and to institutes of higher education. By July 2013 courses had been offered to over 49.000 participants. Terra Cypria is an active contributor to the process of reconciliation of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot Communities. We offer on an annual basis bicommunal youth camps in the Environmental Studies Center and participate in bicommunal environmental projects.

Main Projects / Activities

- Bi-communal Environmental Education Programme, 1996, funded by WWF. - ‘Training of trainers’, bi-communal project for schoolteachers, 2000-1, funded by UNOPS. - Sustainable management of the River Valleys, Eastern Paphos, 1999-2001, funded by LIFE ’99. - Bi-communal study of the cultural significance of Limassol Old Town, 2002-2004, funded by UNOPS/USAID. - Daily Life and Culture of the Turkish Cypriot Community of the Old Town of Limassol, 2006-2008, funded by UNDP-ACT Cultural Programmes - Capacity Building for Environmental NGOs, 2007-2008, funded by UNDP - BIOforLIFE, ongoing LIFE+ project, to sensitize Cypriots to importance of Biodiversity in our daily lives - ‘’Oaks for the future’’ (2009-2011), Bicommunal project funded by DG Enlargement - ADAQUA: Sustainable pollution risk management in Cypriot river basins (2011-2013, Research Promotion Foundation. -Birds for the Future (2013) Bicommunal youth project funded by Has Na - ‘Island-wide wetlands mapping platform’, bicommunal project funded by MAVA (on-going)

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

Our contribution will be in the Youth and the Environment fields through the bicommunal reconciliation process. Despite the political hurdles, Terra Cypria with several NGOs from the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot Communities have continued activities on a bicommunal level, maintaining open channels of communication between the two communities, each NGO in their areas of interest. The older generation of Cypriots that spoke both languages, Greek and Turkish, who knew each community's celebrations and holy days, are dying out. The young people are growing up as strangers, spending their lives without ever meeting a member of the other community, forming their opinions from school, which in both communities serves as a propaganda machine as well as an educational center and the media. We want to continue and expand the level of bicommunal communication, disseminate the fact that it is occuring (it is now largely ignored by mainstream media), continue providing opportunities for the youth of both communities to interact and publicize the positive results from these efforts.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

ALF offers a network for for continuing and expanding our bicommunal activities. Through this network we hope to access the experiance of other middle eastern and European NGOs that work in overcoming communal violence, increase understanding and especially engage the young people, reverse the process of alienation from other communities than their own. The Middle east is facing desrtification, a future of diminishing resources and environmental catastrophe on land and our sea. The network will provide the opportunity to promote our message that enviroment concequences do not recognize cultural differences and do not stop at man-made borders.The umbrella of ALF has a large pool of NGOs with whom to find common graound for cooperation, lends a degree of gravitas to these efforts and provides a limited amount of funding as material support. Terra Cypria has much to gain from joining and it also has a contribution it can make to the network itself.

Contact (1) Full Name

Lefkios Sergides

Job Title

Director

Head of the organisation

Lefkios Sergides

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National Network

Cyprus

Address

claire
claire
Egypt

Telephone

jhjhh

E-Mail

claire.rooftop@gmail.com

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Year of Establishment

1987

Fields of Activity

Arts
Democracy and community development
Human rights
International/Cultural relations

General Information

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Mission and Objectives

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Main Projects / Activities

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Contact (1) Full Name

claire rassinoux

Head of the organisation

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The Mediterranean Policy Centre

National Network

Cyprus

Address

PK 902 MERSIN 10 LEFKOSA NICOSIA KIBRIS CYPRUS
NICOSIA
Cyprus

Telephone

90 5338688696

E-Mail

suha@medpc.org

E-Mail (2)

akaya@medpc.org

Mobile Phone

90 5338688696

Website

http://www.medpc.org

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Year of Establishment

2011

Fields of Activity

Democracy and community development

General Information

The organization has President, Director and International Advsory board (www.medpc.org) . Membership is open and free for everyone to meet on this non political, non discriminatory, international platform, exchanging views and belifs freely. International projects will be funding the organization. Action is based on projects, exchanges, seminars, workshops, reasearches, trainings.

Mission and Objectives

The Mediterranean Policy Centre, is a non-profit, non-political,independent Think Tank established in Cyprus.
MPC is first of its kind.
In line with local and global developments, The Mediterranean Policy Centre will contribute towards public and global policies through research, scientific studies and cooperation, taking into consideration the social, economic and political aspects of sustainable development.In order to contribute to the development of public policy in Cyprus, the MPC will provide alternatives to current political and social scenarios and become an instrument in the acceleration of the process of growth by maintaining its autonomy and proposing positive and creative solutions underpinned by careful scientific research, and with a reputation for trustworthiness and reliability.
We have very effective and strong position in Cyprus and international level.
We would like to ask about if we have a opportunity to develop a cooperation with MEPC?
The Policy Centre – in light of the social, economic and political situation for the people living in Cyprus – works towards knowledge-based intellectual and autonomous progress in activities, and the execution of a self-sufficient, sustainable and competitive structure.
The Policy Centre, has been established to analyze and interpret important developments occurring or likely to happen in Cyprus and around the world, to provide feedback, bring together experts and relevant individuals, provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and views, and collaborate with individuals and organizations working in this direction.
Communication tools, research, collection of information and assessment methods will provide the opportunity to study organizational developments and also will create the opportunity to collect a considerably important amount of information on human and societal behavior. Policies will be produced on the basis of available information using the disciplines of economics, political science, sociology and management sciences.
The Mediterranean Policy Centre will form a network of communication and cooperation, in sociology, management, public policy and international relations – including prominent individuals and institutions.
With collaboration and cooperation underpinned by applied scientific studies the Policy Center will bring accelerated development to the island and the area.
The desired outcome of the Policy Centre is to not only to carry out studies in the specific geographic area in which it was established, but also to work globally and produce alternative solutions to the whole world and contribute to the progress of humanity.
Studies at the Mediterranean Policy Centre will reflect growth in our rapidly changing world, and it will become an instrument of transformation for governing bodies which want to keep up with changes accruing around the world, to assist them in formulating plans, and to help them understand the process of how to replace old and ineffective structures with organic and dynamic systems.
The Mediterranean Policy Centre will produce projects and alternative solutions targeting social, economic and political progress based on the premise that logic, science and accumulated knowledge should replace old routines and habits that are not serving the community well or solving long-standing problems

Main Projects / Activities

The major activities of the Mediterranean Policy Centre are:
· To create a platform for autonomous, scientific and reputable studies that will contribute towards positive change and transformation.
· To provide the opportunity for individuals, intellectuals and academics, independent organizations and institutions, to operate under the non-profit, non-political umbrella.
· To disseminate reliable information, promote science-based approaches and encourage information management in order to meet the increasing need in society for dependable information and knowledge.
·To conduct research based on the social sciences whilst also providing information, sources, studies and alternative perspectives for thinkers and researchers.
· To identify real problems and needs in society and to clarify the causes and underlying issues relating to these needs, by conducting surveys, research, scientific studies and analysis.
· To determine strategic objectives, identify priority issues, and determine cause and effect relationships by analyzing solutions in line with short, medium and long-term studies.
· To generate sustainable building and development projects to promote production and create employment.
· To create a research database so that policy makers and other parties can search for statistical information and research and use up-to-date and accurate data for producing policies.
· To create new perspectives and alternative policies based on research data and scientific studies in order to improve quality in the public arena.
·To offer training to members, citizens, civil and public institutions based on the high-quality data, information and methods generated by the researchers.
·To provide consultancy services and experts to carry out work within the Centre and externally on request.
· To promote active participation in and strengthening of citizen-government relations to encourage the development of the democratic process and decrease the distance and mistrust between government and its citizens. In this way, the state will be informed of the needs and expectations of citizens at every stage of policy making and the trust of the public in the state will be restored and civil capacity will be strengthened.
· To setup a dialogue between intellectuals, institutions, organizations and civil society organizations to ensure cooperation, execute and complete projects, and create a network of interested parties.
· To contribute towards creating and/or strengthening the local and international identity by bringing together like-minded organizations and creating synergies at a macro level.
· To encourage and promote the strengthening of Civil Society Organizations, capacity building and advocacy in order to increase their impact on decision-making mechanisms and produce effective, alternative policies.
· To promote active citizenship by providing an open platform where all may voice their suggestions and contribute to the wellbeing of society and participate in producing alternative policies.
· Offer a forum where CSOs can become a bridge between individual expectations and the state. Strengthening CSOs would then result in a stronger link between the state and its citizens.
· To work – on a project basis – with organizations and similar institutions abroad, benefit from studies conducted by researchers and scientists world-wide and further the development of business association.
· To collaborate professionally and work on projects with individuals or institutions.
The Mediterranean Policy Centre will continue to collaborate and follow up with centres of best practices around world
through on-going dialogue and partnerships, and in order to earn a respectable place in the international arena.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

MEDITERRANEAN POLICY CENTRE IN CYPRUS has a unique position of being non political non profit THINK TANK, lobbying for policy change for sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, promoting common global values that will enrich the network in my country.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

Mediterranean Policy Centre playing the role of being bridge between the world and the island would be benefiting from best practices by joining ALF network, sharing experiences of democracy and development, contributing its immense experience especially on CSO capacity development, values, and PEACE& RECONCILIATION.

Contact (1) Full Name

Suha Vekil

Head of the organisation

Nicosia

Contact (2) Full Name

ANIL KAYA

The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre

National Network

Cyprus

Address

19, Apostolou Varnaua St.
1500 Nicosia
Cyprus

Telephone

+357 22 797 400

Telephone (other)

+357 22 797 393

Fax

+357 22 432 531

E-Mail

yiannis.toumazis@nicosiamunicipality.org.cy

E-Mail (2)

jenny.fryda@nicosiamunicipality.org.cy

Mobile Phone

+357 99 497067

Mobile Phone (other)

+357 99 448159

Website

http://www.nimac.com.cy

Organisation Type

Other

Year of Establishment

1994

Fields of Activity

Arts
Youth and education

General Information

1. Agreement between Nicosia Municipality and Pierides Foundation Staff employed: 9 2. Variable 3. Private and Public Sponsorships 4. Exhibitions, seminars, roundtables 5. Cultural institutions, Ministry of Education and Culture

Mission and Objectives

One of the major aims is to show the different approaches to contemporary cypriot art and art in general.

Main Projects / Activities

2007: Supernova-Constellations
The exhibition examines the way young artists from Cyprus, Greece and Britain interpret and get inspirations from the geometric abstraction that influenced the development of Modernism in the 20th century. Twenty six artists participate in the exhibition with paintings, sculptures, video and installations.
2006: Crossings: A contemporary View
Touring exhibition of contemporary art to France and Cyprus with participants from Europe, Middle East and North Africa.
2005: Theotokos-Madonna
This exhibition represented 40 rare Byzantine icons from Cyprus and Italian renaissance paintings of Madonna.
And many more....

Contact (1) Full Name

Yiannis Toumazis

Head of the organisation

Yiannis Toumazis

Contact (2) Full Name

Jenny Fryda

TheatrEtc.

National Network

Cyprus

Address

Leontiou Machaira 9A, 1020
Nicosia
Cyprus

Telephone

+357 99790848

E-Mail

theatroktl@gmail.com

Website

http://www.theatretc.com

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Year of Establishment

2011

Fields of Activity

Arts

General Information

TheatrEtc. is a NGO which has been officially established in 2011 and consists of 5 voluntary board members (president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, creative director) and 25 voluntary members active in a variety of projects. The NGO is non-profit and has 2 large projects running year long while is also active in smaller collaborations and initiatives. The funding available to the organisation comes through its needs for its projects - ex. the project "Remove the Power" is funded by the Commissioner for the Protection of Children's Rights in Cyprus. Former projects have been supported and funded by the US Embassy given their intercultural character and the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture in Cyprus. TheatrEtc. has two main projects, "Crossroads Youth Camps" and "Remove the Power - primary school workshops for raising awareness against Bullying" . It also organises regular teacher training workshops on the use of theatre as a educative tool in primary and secondary education. TheatrEtc also takes part in initiatives that promote cross-cultural awareness in Cyprus such as the "One Street Festival" and the "Voice it" Festival.

Mission and Objectives

TheatrEtc. mission is to encourage and develop the use of theatre and other expressive art forms as educational tools and as vehicles for social change.
It aims towards the bridging of the collaborations between educator, activists and artists and their involvement in developing and implementing projects that address issues that concern people in the Cypriot society and in the global community as well.
It aspires to become an advocate for the use of the arts and especially theatre by young people as a means for communicating a message and making a public statement. For this reason, the main client group of TheatrEtc. are young people and children.

Main Projects / Activities

1. Crossroads Youth Camp
Crossroads camp takes place every summer and next summer will be its 4th consecutive year. The project brings together 20 young people aged 15-18 years old from the two divided communities of the island of CYprus, Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots for a 10-day process. The participants all live together in a spirit of collaboration for an intensive 10-day workshops experience on theatre. The camp aims at teaching young people about theatre and other performative arts (music, dance, puppetry etc) but also have dialogue sessions with them in order for them to express their opinions about the current state of the Cypriot problem, the division of their communities and the fact that they do not interact.
2. "Remove the Power" It is a project which has been running in primary schools across the country for the last 1,5 years. It proposes the use of applied theatre techniques in 6-day long workshops in primary school classrooms in order to teach 9-12 year old pupils about bullying, its definition, its characteristics and what we can do to stop it. The project has, until now, been implemented by educators-practitioners across the island in 45 primary schools outreaching to 1200 primary school pupils.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

By becoming members of the ALF Network, TheatrEtc immediately comes closer to other organisations which are under the same network in Cyprus. This helps us be more familiar with their work, become more aware of their actions and be more comfortable in contacting them for future collaborations where we can contribute our expertise in the use of the arts as tools for social change as well as gain a lot from their long-term experiences. Furthermore, through its different projects with young people, TheatrEtc. team has a wide network of young people on its contact list who can be urged to become more active by inviting them in to take part in initiatives that occur during collaborations within the Network in Cyprus.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We hope to be able to add TheatrEtc. in the ALF Network, because we believe its activities and initiatives are innovative and sustainable as they are in tuned with the needs of people in the current Cypriot society. We aspire to be able to contribute our methodologies and ideas to a wider global network of organisations in order to perhaps enrich the pool of initiatives and also benefit from it by changing our approaches making them better according to how other initiatives are conducted. TheatrEtc a new organisation and its members are an enthusiastic and very capable group of people. For this reason, being in a wider, global Network allows us to widen our perspectives, increase our opportunities to contribute in a bigger collaboration and learn from others.

Contact (1) Full Name

Natalia Kouhartsiouk

Head of the organisation

Christos Charitou