NGO SENSE, MOLDOVA

The "SENSE" association was founded in 2022 at the initiative of some people involved in the life of people with visual impairments.

The purpose of the association: To offer people with disabilities the chance to integrate in the community

The mission of the association: To help and provide support to people with disabilities, especially those with visual impairments in order to adapt to the community and to find an active role in it.

Sense's plans for the next five years: We want to create a framework for the personal and psychological development of people with visual impairments. Our ideal is to create a multifunctional centre where visually impaired people can interact with the community, develop new skills that can help them in their personal lives, find work opportunities in the community, play sports and develop as any other citizen of the Republic of Moldova.

NGO FutureWE, UKRAINE

"We are the future" is a non-profit organisation, operating as a regional youth center for youth and youth workers in the Dnipropetrovsk region in Ukraine, focused on raising awareness about non-formal education as an effective tool for self-development and youth participation.

Asociacija Seimu bendryste, LITHUANIA

"Tėkmė" school officially was established in 2014. It started with a small child care group, created by associacion "Seimu bendryste. Year by year community kept growing and this year there is a kindergarten, primary classes and lower secondary education for 91 child aged from 2 till 13 and the number of students is growing every year. The number of staff is 35.

In our school we follow the idea of holistic education, so students in the school are growing empathic, continuous learning, communal, in harmony with nature and creative. 

NGO ICYC, ARMENIA

The International Centre of Youth Cooperation (ICYC) is a newly formed youth organization based in the Republic of Armenia. It is a community of aspiring young people who have united with an aim to promote the cooperation among young people across Europe in various fields of non-formal education, such as intercultural learning and dialogue, peacebuilding and conflict transformation, youth entrepreneurship, creative writing and storytelling, sport and healthy lifestyle, etc. We are a group of young people who are very motivated to act as changemakers in our country and Europe strengthening ties among young people for better Europe. We believe that enabling young people to raise their voice, to cooperate with other like-minded young people across Europe and providing them a platform where they can bring their ideas and implement them, can be crucial in their lives and for the future of Europe. This is the mission of ICYC and now we work with many Youth NGOs in Europe who has the same goals. 

Martkopi Youth Centre, GEORGIA

Martkopi Youth Center (MYC) is a Georgian youth organisation working in Gardabani municipality. The mission of the organisation is to educate and empower local young people living in the village of Martkopi, so that they can make positive changes in the community.

The organisation aims to raise awareness and develop competencies of young people aged 13-30 in the following topics: Environment, democracy, human rights and diversity.

In our village, Martkopi, we are the first community organisation. From the beginning, we used to be an initiative group from 2020 to 2022 and since 2022, we have been registered as a non-profit organisation.

Our organisation is based on the value of acting locally and thinking globally. Since 2020, we have organised diverse projects, among them advocacy campaigns, fundraising to create the space for our activities, training courses, study visits, cultural events, and outdoor nature activities. 

Asociación Extremundo, SPAIN

Asociación Extremundo is a non-profit Association, established on the 10th of November 2020 and officially based in Cáceres, Extremadura. In a few words, it aims to provide a better quality of life to all the Extremaduran citizens through local, provincial, regional, national, European & international project management.

As indicated in the approved statutes by the Government of Extremadura in the last years, its main objectives are:

• To develop the Extremaduran region through local, provincial, regional, national, European and/or international opportunities for young and adult people, promoting an active citizenship and an intergenerational participation at the same time;

• To provide youngsters - mainly from Extremadura - with services that benefit their personal/social and professional development, in line with the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027:

• Promoting youth participation;

• Promoting youth implication for social transformation;

• Promoting positive experiences related to the leisure time of youngsters;

• Promoting youth job placement;

• Promoting equal opportunities and non-discrimination.

• Line 1: projects for equality;

• Line 2: social action projects.

• To offer a general or specific empowerment, both offline and online, to the Extremaduran population interested in European and/or international topics;

• To design and to implement local, provincial, regional, national, European and/or international projects, in order to benefit the urban and rural citizens of Extremadura;

• To promote the European and/or international volunteering inside and outside the Extremaduran borders;

• To promote an entrepreneurial learning - including the social, rural, digital, female and youth ones - and the creation of startups related to digital transformation at the local and regional levels. 

Asociatia "Clubul Sportiv Forza Junior Costuleni", ACSFJC, Romania

The main activities of the ACSFJC are to provide non-formal education through sport. Sports activities, in addition to the physical benefits they offer you, healthy living, endurance, offer you behaviour that helps you become an important resource of society. Through the activities we do, we educate young people to collaborate, to be open and to listen to the needs of others, to keep their promises, to be punctual and disciplined. We have 8 years of local activity, working mainly with young people from rural areas. Over time, we have been able to offer the chance for over 400 young people to develop and move out of the countryside to study at quality high schools in the area. Some of these young people have become people with good careers, and the most important thing is that they turn their attention to the community that formed them and help the new generations.

Asossiation Our World, BULGARIA 

Established in 1999, Association Our World is a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Varna, Bulgaria, focused on educational, cultural, social and ecological projects. The organization aims to uplift, organize and promote local and international collaborations around its key areas of research.
It is set up by imminent teachers, actors, lawyers and economists from Varna and region with the aim to unite the efforts of different social groups to prepare young people for their personal realization, professional realization and participation in the civil society.
Association Our World aims to create opportunities for social integration of young people various marginal groups. By establishing projects and activities that nurture their creative potential, educational abilities and social awareness, the organisation supports the needs and interests of the youth from Varna region, northeast Bulgaria.