ALFinMOTION - Mobility Programme - Sixth Edition
ALF Hands-On: Open Call for Participation! - Second Cycle
The Anna Lindh Foundation organizes a series of meetings called the Intercultural Morning Coffees which bring together researchers, journalists, and civil society to discuss up-to-
Foróige
Ozanam Hse
St. Augustine St. Galway
Galway
Ireland
The organisation beleives that all humans are unique and creative, the purpsoe of the organisation is to empower young people to consciously and actively contribute to their own devlopemtn and to the development of society.
Foróige operates through learning by doing, neve doing for a young person what they can do for themselves. Young people are active memebrs of the organisation taking full responmsibility for runningtheir clubs and are actively invovled in the goevernance of the organsiation being represented on the National Council and National Executive.
The core organsiation centres on the Foróige youth club which is run by adult volunteers and youth members.The club is run democartically with the all officer positions being held by elected members.
Adult leaders facitate the clubs. Each county has a district council where club leaders neet to arrange inter club events and training. Local projects include family and adolescent support funded thorught he HSe, Justice projetcs targeting young peopel referred for support from the Gardai (police) and local youth services inclusing heath cafés funded through the local education authorities. Natioanl programmes include Leadership for Life, Teenage Health and training for young Entreprenurs. BIG Brother Big Sister is a national metoring programme run in communites and schools.
International cultural programmes and cultural integration programmes are also run in assocaition with Alan Kerins Projetcs and the UNESCO Chair for Youth and Civic Engagement based in NUI Galway. Programmes and activites are educational and informal all particiapation is voluntary.
Foróige has over 60 years of experience in designing delivering and evaluatin youth work programmes in Ireland. Foroige has strong vibrant links and partnerships with youth organisations in many different countries.
Foroige has a strong tradition of evaluating programmes and activities both internally and through independent organisations and universities. Foróige is Ireland's leading youth developemt agency it has an experienced and vibrant staff and volunteer base.
Foroige can bring a body of experience knowledge and good will with a proven track record for initiaive and working in partnership in additon Foroige is a willing and active learner prepared to learn from the experience and knowlesge of others.
Foróige have close links wiht the National Youth Council and have been active particiapnts in intercultural exchanges.
Foroige also work in partnership with the UNESCO Chair and Alan Kerin projects supporting oyuth and community education programmes in Kaoma Zambia.
In addition the Leadership for Life annual conference involves young people from all continents for the summer conference.
The ALF Network will strengthen our links with agencies involved in similar programmes and allow us to learn from and work with other agencies and partners.
Long-term grassroots member Cliodhna Noonan from Acting Up has set up residency in Axis Ballymun, a community resource centre with an arts centre and serves as a resource in Ballymun. This area north of Dublin City Centre, is well-known for the city's early rehousing scheme from the inner city to the outer suburbs in the 1960s. Through this redevelopment, a number of social problems followed including high unemployment, drug addition, marginalisation among others.
Axis is a centre for excellence with the community of Ballymun at its heart. It was founded by a number of community development organisations and artists resident in the community and opened to the public in 2001. Axis’ aim is to programme at the point of excellence and inclusion, combining creative community development and artistic excellence to provide opportunities for professional and community member alike. Axis actively programmes and commissions original work that is relevant to its locality, history and growing constituency and programmes with the explicit intention of exploring and enhancing artists experiences, while introducing new work and new ways of working.
A key component of Cliodhna's work is on creativity, expression and intercultural dialogue through storytelling for the very young. She will participate and facilitate a workshop in Morocco as part of the planned network exchange 5-8 March 2024. Cliodhna says "I am inspired by the work of the Anna Lindh Foundation to generate moments of connection between cultures and to use various means to do so, including artistic and creative workshops." Keep an eye out for more updates later in the month and wishing Cliodhna the very best of luck in Morocco!
https://actinguparts.weebly.com/
47 Dominick Street
Galway
Ireland
Galway Arts Centre is company limited by guarantee with charitable status. It is governed by a voluntary board of Directors. Paraic Breathnach is the Managing Director. There are 3 other full time staff, 2 part time, 1 Jobbridge intern and 7 CE scheme employees. Technicians and art teachers are contracted in on a freelance basis as required. We are currently running on 200,000 per year and are funded by the Arts Council of Ireland, Galway City Council and Galway County Council. We programme an art gallery, a literature festival and run youth programes in theatre, literature and visual art.
The aim of Galway Arts Centre is to put the arts at the heart of Galway life and people at the heart of the arts. This means enabling artists and arts audiences of all ages to take creative risks and pursue new opportunities in an accessible, engaging and challenging environment. This programme is supported by auxiliary events involving talks, symposia, music, story-telling and screenings. The policy focuses on 3 categories. • Engagement with audiences, partnerships and education • support for artists • Projects that place innovation and risk as their main objectives
Visual Art Gallery Programme: 10 - 12 shows per year Cuirt International Festival of Literature Galway Youth Theatre: 2 year VEC accredited performance course & 2 productions per year Schools project in Theatre, Literature & Visual Art Working with Older People in the community: Burning Bright Visual Art Project Youth Led Art Collective: Red Bird, 2+ projects a year on art & architecture
We have done alot of research in youth led practice and feel that we are at a stable point in our programming & curatorial vision to manage large scale, multi partner projects. We have recently completed a partnership project with EU funding, and feel that we are knowledgeable to lead a new project now.
Galway Arts Centre would like to work with other partners on new projects and to link in with new people in the other Network countries
Kilcornan House
Clarinbridge
Galway
Ireland
The Galway One World Centre (GOWC) is a Development Education Centre based in the West of Ireland. It is governed by a board of directors which is elected by the membership every year at the Annual General Meeting. Currently the GOWC employs three part-time staff and has an annual budget of approx €100,000. Main funder on an annual basis is Irish Aid through their development education funding scheme, with other NGOs and consultancies. Ongoing projects include training of teachers in conjunction with the School of Education at NUI Galway as well as in-service training, public seminars, training workshops and events on a variety of issues, Galway African Film Festival, and training of youth & community workers (for full details, annual reports etc. visit www.galwayowc.org). Most projects are carried out in partnership with other organisations including Huston School of Film & Digital Media, YouthWork Ireland and other organisations as appropriate.
GOWC’s mission is to create educational opportunities in Galway that develop a critical analysis of the unequal power relationships that historically and currently exist between diverse groups, both locally and globally. GOWC’s aim is to empower people through education, direct action, networking, outreach and provision of resources to create a world where all people have equality of rights, opportunities and respect. GOWC’s definition of development education is “a participatory, empowering and stimulating process that aims to expand the analysis of power, justice and equality that operates at both the local and global levels to challenge injustice and inspire solidarity actions”.
The GOWC carries out training of educators, youth and community workers as well as working directly with students, youth and community groups and the general public to provide in depth and up to date information on global development issues through workshops and resources in our centre.
by providing global and anti-racism perspectives by offering links to other development education organisations through our membership of IDEA and Dochas
A lot of our work includes anti-racism and interculturalism (we consider this an essential component in global solidarity work). We also run an annual African Film Festival aiming to bring African perspectives to an Irish Audience. The Festival has showcased a number of current films from Northern Africa and we would like to build on this by inviting directors and actors from that region to talk about democracy and diversity in their respective countries.
38/39 Fitzwilliam Square
Dublin
Ireland
We are a collaboratively owned, degree granting higher education college. Our model is designed for delivering debt-free, higher quality, zero carbon footprint, self-sustaining, green-business startup for the social good. Staff: 8-10 10,000 euros/ year (resources available) We are self-funded. We offer free or low-cost tuition to qualified applicants. We deliver world-class seminars to students and the public. Economic Space Agency and Mile Square Labs and accredited higher-education institutions (Mexico, USA, Brazil)
Our Mission “To provide the highest quality education and research opportunities in the world, debt-free.” Our mission is global and enduring. The sufficient capability and capacity to become a leader in global education require courage and a consistent push for innovation. These innovations come from the expertise and dedication of all GCAS faculty, staff, researchers and students. Our professors are committed to teaching practices focused on theoretical and practical ways to maximize students abilities and gifts to better our world. The GCAS community relies on our diverse student body to continue providing opportunities for this well-grounded, debt-free and empowering education. THE 6 PILLARS OF GCAS The education model we developed for our college is the first of its kind and rests on the following six pillars: High-Quality Faculty: our faculty co-own the college collectively. Alumnx Ownership "TOP": Graduates of our degree programmes are invited by the faculty to co-own the college upon graduation. Their ownership value is equal to their tuition invested meaning that tuition is turned into an investment. Communal Ecosystem: We deploy a fair and democratic crypto-economy, one that's designed socially and not as with many other crypto designs, individually. Our crypto tokens, "GCA$¥" are used internally to our eco-system primarily used by students to help with basic tasks (e.g., edit our peer-reviewed journal, The GCAS Review etc.) in exchange for tuition reduction. This is our way for our academic community to "self-invest" so external leverage is minimized. Debt-Free: We are committed to debt-free tuition levels. Centres: We have seven centers or “nodes” located worldwide with demands for more including in China. Accreditation: We are applying for accreditation.
Self-Sustaining, eco-zero farm: https://gcas-farm.com
We are looking to partner with a similar organization for sharing space in Dublin or in Ireland for code-compliant teaching facilities.
ALF has very similar goals as GCAS College. We want to give our the younger generation the best opportunity a way to achieve college degrees without incurring debt.
Glencree
Co. Wicklow
Glencree
Ireland
The Glencree Community consists of 34 staff members (part and full-time), 12 residential, international volunteers, and 3 residential education interns. Several other NGOs work with Glencree on programmes, such as Corrymeela in Northern Ireland and the Global Partnership for Conflict Prevention. Resources available to Glencree include several historical and large buildings that house offices, 55 beds for overnight guests, and a building that is home to 15 volunteers and interns. Glencree receives funding from the European Union, governments (Ireland, UK, International Fund for Ireland), Glencree Business Club, and the “Friends of Glencree”, who are individual and private people. Glencree has a budget of roughly €1.2 million each year. The Ulster Bank Resource Centre (library) provides a stock of books with themes like history, politics and conflict management. Project work consists of dialogue workshops, training, peace education with youth, women, survivors, former combatants, and international groups.
The core mission of Glencree is: Committed to peacebuilding and reconciliation within and between communities. Glencree provides services and facilities expressly devoted to peacebuilding and reconciliation in Ireland, North and South, in Britain and beyond; offers programmes and space to help deal with conflict in a democratic society; enhance understanding of the complex relationships on these islands and to facilitate the further development of pluralism in Ireland. Glencree contributes to the formation of new relationships and trust building within and between these islands leading to the consolidation of peace. The idea of “Sharing our Learning” means to bring the lessons learned from our experiences of peacebuilding to a wider audience. The international volunteers from all over the world are able to spread Glencree’s values over national borders.
Glencree runs several programmes: The Peace Education Programme offers learning opportunities in peacebuilding, prejudice, multiculturalism, racism and bullying to young people. The Survivors and Former Combatants programme consists of dialogue group work to cultivate relationships between people that will lead to sustainable peace. In the Political Dialogue Programme politicians meet for dialogue or training and a summer school takes place each year. The Churches programme uncovers peacebuilding tasks for church communities and people of faith. The International Programme grew in response to requests from other conflict areas to share our lessons learned from Ireland; training and dialogue initiatives are taking place in Haiti, the Middle East, Colombia and Sri Lanka. The Womens Programme is a capacity building initiative with Train the Trainer workshops.
The National Youth Council of Ireland in collaboration with Maynooth University has developed a new interactive online learning module on Global Youth Work.
The module is hosted on www.youthworkandyou.org, a hub for curated resources for the youth work sector and students. It includes animations, interviews with youth work sector and Global Citizenship Education stakeholders, tools and resources addressing three key areas:
This module for youth workers, youth organisations, and students of youth work, is designed to develop the capacity of those involved in youth work to bring a Global Youth Work dimension to their work within their own specific contexts.
Global Youth Work is a practice that supports young people to explore and act on issues of justice and solidarity in our interconnected world.
The National Youth Council of Ireland in collaboration with Maynooth University has developed a new interactive online learning module on Global Youth Work. The module is hosted on www.youthworkandyou.org, a hub for curated resources for the youth work sector and...
Ballycaskin, Carrignavar, Co. Cork.
Cork
Ireland
My mission is to give the youth a means of creative expression through hip hop music and show them how easy it is to begin making music.
Mayfield Community Training Centre: Produced and recorded 2 tracks tackling the theme of anti-racism. One of the tracks came first in the Development Perspectives song competition in Drogheda in the summer of 2010.
Cork Academy of Music - Knocknaheeny Youth Music Initiative: Giving weekly music technology and recording FETAC classes. The class have performed songs recorded in these classes at Cork's City Hall and for the president Mary McAleese.
The Triskel Arts Centre and Liverpool Capital of Culture: Travelled to Liverpool with a group of over 15 youths to take part in a succesful collaborative project which involved a showcase and recording and various schools and youth groups around Munster.