Partners
Kreisau Initiative Berlin e.V. was founded in in 1990. Its mission is to support the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe in Poland ideally and materially, while also being the German contact office to the Polish Foundation. Through its projects, the Kreisau-Initiative aims to bring youths from all over Europe and other parts of the world together in order to foster dialogue and inter-cultural communication. Other objectives of the organisation include building up a European platform for exchange of knowledge and improvement of understanding of the functions and politics of EU institutions, while spreading EU values and goals, stimulating active youth participation in civil society projects and engagement in political decision-making processes and creating networks between schools, academia, governmental and non-governmental organizations and EU-institutions.
The Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe initiates and promotes activities that develop peaceful relationships between nations, social groups, and individuals. The Foundation applies social concepts developed by the World War II German resistance group, the Kreisau Circle, by advancing European mutual understanding.
The Foundation runs four main programs: The International Youth Meeting Centre, The Historic Site, The European Academy, and The Conference Centre. The Foundation has the goal of establishing an ecological farming project.
The work of the International Youth Meeting Centre (IYMC) is at the heart of the foundation's activities. The IYMC organizes programmes and seminars for young people from Eastern and Western Europe throughout the year. The programmes address a broad palette of topics: Europe, multi-cultural art, the environment, history of resistance against totalitarian systems, and intergenerational encounters. Working together in these projects makes it possible for participants to replace nationalistic and cultural stereotypes with curiosity, trust, acceptance, and willingness to engage in dialogue.
Young Journalist Center from Moldova (YJCM)is a not-for-profit membership association of young journalists in broadcast, print and electronic media from Moldova. YJCM was created in 2002 as a spin-off project of Independent Journalist Center and UNICEF Moldova. In November 2002 it was registered as a Moldovan NGO.
YJCM sees its mission in fostering the development of the youth media and aims at promoting freedom of expression and professionalism in journalism.
The objectives of YJCM are:
- Facilitating access to information for young people from the Republic of Moldova;
- Educating and training young journalists and youth media workers;
- Enhancing the quality of youth media products;
- Establishing and promoting partnerships between with and within national and international youth media networks.
At this point in time YJCM has a five years long experience of developing and strengthening youth media in Moldova. Due to YJCM’s effort the number of youth newspapers in Moldova increased from 19 in 2002 to 145 in 2007. Alongside with the numerical increase it was registered a qualitative progress of youth media.
The main aim of the International Non Government Organization For balance in society is to support positive changes and sustainable development of the civil society in Ukraine through raising the Ukrainian citizens’ legal and economical awareness. The organization offers seminars, consulting and society activating projects which encourage citizens (mainly women and youth) to active participation in life of their local societies. It promotes education on human rights and sustainable development in Ukraine and Europe. Organizations structure: Board – 5
people Supervisory board – 5 people Stuff (includes volunteers) – 3-5 people (depend of current activity) Regional structure – 5 regions of Ukraine Departments:youth; advocacy; education & training.
