Partners

Partner name	Country
Civilna, edukativna i transparentna platforma	Croatia
NaturKultur EV	Germany
PLATFORMA GIA TIN EKPAIDEUSI KAI KATARTISI POLITON – ELLAS	Greece
KOZ-PONT IFJUSAGI EGYESULET	Hungary
CET Platforma Skopje	Republic North Macedonia
Ungdomsfronten	Sweden
Toplumsal Kültür ve Gelişim Derneği	Turkey
Opportunity Global	UK

    Civilna, Edukativna i Transparentna Platforma

CET platforma Croatia is branch of regional CET network with organizations in Croatia, Serbia, Poland, FYROM, Slovenia, Italy, Greece, Lithuania, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo. CET was established as a group of experts from South East Europe with the aim to provide support, assistance, services and expertise in the field of the development of civil society and democratic institutions, civic values, and non-formal education for all citizens, especially young people. CET also deals with advocacy in public policy issues. CET organizes events (round tables, debates, seminars and workshops) on the issues of activism, education, promotion and exchange in the field of human rights, and development of local, regional, European and international relations and cooperation. CET especially promotes the development of creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development (of civil society). CET platform Croatia cooperated with many organisation from West Balkans and European Union on projects within Youth in Action and other programmes of CoE, EU and other international foundations with topics: social inclusion, youth activism, European awareness, etc. Annual plan of CET Balkan network foreseen activities aiming to include big number of young people in activities of civil organisations and support them in social and professional development. Related to the project, as our country is new member state of EU, there is huge need for information about labour mobility rights of our citizens within EU, including often issues due to lack in knowledge about rights

email: croatia@cetplatform.org    Facebook

          NaturKultur EV      

NaturKultur is a grass-roots NGO that is founded by an EVS volunteer who after finishing the EVS experience in Slovakia and she wanted to offer same kind of life changing experiences to other young people in the northwest of Germany, since there were no organizations providing those kind of opportunities. In 2010 it started as an informal group who organized a Youth exchange, to later register the NGO NaturKultur in 2011 and focus on organizing mobilities for young people between 13-30 in the region Ammerland. In the first three years the focus was on youth exchanges, local youth initiatives and training courses. Since 2014-2017 NaturKultur has focused is also present in the region of Bremen. The focus of the organization was on developing quality and sustainability of youthwork, making alliances with other NGOs to grow at
the same time. This approach created synergies that helped many other NGOs and informal groups to grow, while NaturKultur was growing. In 2013 was the first training course “train the trainers” who had its 6th edition in 2019 and its one of the most recognized trainings and center of innovation in youthwork and NFL.
Our target group are young people from the wide spectrum of the local society and especially encouraging the ones from minority and migration background, different kind of additions, young
people with disabilities. In order to reach those young people, we cooperate with organizations who address young people with fewer opportunities on daily basis, to whom we also offer opportunities (IBIS for migration/refugee background, Tanzabar(dawn sindrome), Friedehorst and Blauschimmel for young people with disabilities, MOB Bremen and Jugendhaus Osterholz-Scharmbeck etc). We also have very active social media community with around 4500 fans and followers.
We wanted to increase our capacity to organize and send more young people on meaningful and life changing exchanges – therefore two more young people joined our organization who became responsible for creating and delivering quality hosting and sending opportunities and to make sure that all of the groups are well prepared for the experience, we have quality partners abroad and many meaningful projects.
Since 2018 we are creating series or workshops on local level that range from arts – photography, poetry to cooking workshops and networking events, theatre workshops to Young people on English and German language. We have planned for 2019 different kind of civic engagements workshops, languages (German), soft skills workshop and activism activities (such as Guerilla gardening).
Since 2018 we became active in one more region – Osterholz where we started cooperation with
the youth services, we are helping the region to develop youth work practices, to be more involved in international youth mobility

email: info@naturkultur.eu   Facebook

Platforma Gia Tin Ekpaideusi Kai Katartisi Politon – Ellas 

CET Platform Hellas is the Greek branch of regional CET Network with organizations in Croatia, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, FYROM, Bulgaria, Italy, Greece, Lithuania, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo. CET was established as a group of experts from South East Europe with the aim to provide support, assistance, services and expertise in the field of the development of civil society and democratic institutions, civic values, and non-formal education for all citizens, especially young people. CET also deals with advocacy in public policy issues. CET organizes events (round tables, debates, seminars and workshops) on the issues of activism, education, promotion and exchange in the field of human rights, and development of local, regional, European and international relations and cooperation. CET especially promotes the development of creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development (of civil society). CET Platform Hellas also deals with environment and ecology issues, arts, volunteering in local level, empowerment of people with fewer opportunities, mainly residents of provincial areas, development of empathy and soft skills of its members.CET Platform Hellas’ goal is to provide young Greeks with opportunities to enhance their personal development and increase their future employability, by developing soft skills that may be proven invaluable in the labour market, through mobility, volunteering, workshops and trainings, as well as to promote the understanding of the political and social framework of the EU and eventually the understanding and embracement of European values and the creation of a European Identity and Active Citizenship

email: greece@cetplatform.org         Facebook         Website

  KÖZ-Pont Ifjúsági Egyesület

The target group of the Centre Youth Association are people aged between 10 and 30. Those people who would like to do something for their community, through themselves. We provide space and opportunity for them to become parts of the society. Those working in our Association accept as a common value the openness, creativity and trust towards each other. In our community we realize these values through help, support and teamwork. We provide support for informal youth groups in the framework of the Association and with respect towards each other’s interests. We also consider it our goal to empower young people and to operate a network of volunteers in the North- Plain region. Those young people who get in touch with us can have such experiences that can be determining factors in their lives.
To accomplish our aims we have many colourful and diverse projects. Regarding our regular activities; one of our volunteer program, the Community Volunteer Service gives opportunity for students to do something for their community. We have such partner institutions as Rehabilitation Center for People with Disabilities, Tündérkert Old People’s Home, the Animal Shelter but we focus our efforts on the children as well. We organize activities for under-aged handicapped, orphans, deaf, blind and visually challenged children, etc.
We have a lot of partner institutions in Nyíregyháza for example: City & County Government, Youth Roundtable of Nyíregyháza, AFS Hungary, Mustárház IITI, HUMAN-NET Foundation, Inspi-Ráció Association, New Generation Contact Point.
We organize youth events and through our Genius Club we are looking for young talents. Not only to find them but to give a mentoring for them, but also to get in touch with such places and institutions that would be willing to accept these talented people.
We have founded the Fellowship of Students’ Self-Government in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. The goal of this informal youth organization is to keep up the good relationship with the students’ self-governments of secondary schools. This organization is truly for the young people, therefore it can only operate with them and by them.
We also offer the youth living near our office an alternative way of spending their spare time at the Centre Point Community Space. Alongside, we educate them on drug prevention, environmental protection and a healthy way of living. We organize many sports events not just in our county but in the region as well. In addition, lately we have introduced our newest area where those who are interested in the media can try themselves out with our new program called: Let Your Voice Be Heard! This is an opportunity for the youth to write in a students’ monthly magazine and to be part of a radio program written and edited by them

Email: info@kozpontegyesulet.hu Website

     CET Platforma Skopje

CET platforma Skopje is a voluntary, non-profit, non-governmental, non-partisan association of citizens with mission to: strengthen civil society on local, national and European level, promote and protect the human rights, perform activities which encourage moral and civic values, strengthen inter-ethnic relations, empower youth in society, advocate for social inclusion of vulnerable groups, promote non-formal education and offer support, education, training and mobility opportunities to young people. Even though CET platforma Skopje is relatively new organisation, founded in January 2016, it is established by young, motivated, competent and experienced youth workers, leaders, activists and experts who are active in the civil sector and youth work from 2008. CET platform Skopje at the moment has 12 active members and 3 volunteers who belong to different ethnic, religious or gender groups that live in Macedonia. The members have different backgrounds and experiences, but many of them are active in youth work, non-formal education and grass-root activism from 2008, either as participants, coordinators or organisers of various local, national and international projects on different topics within different programmes such as: Youth in Action, Europe for Citizens, No Hate Speech Movement and Erasmus+

Email: macedonia@cetplatform.org          Facebook

Ungdomsfronten

We are a non-profit and non-governmental organization that works on youth initiatives,development and realization of innovative projects. We are based in Södertälje, Sweden. Our main goal is to open the youth’s eyes and show that together we can change and together we can build a better world. Our national activities are based on non-formal education. We are arranging workshops and some other activities to the youth in the local community. Our main mission is promotion of development of the people, including development of their powers,involvement in civil society process and protection Of their rights and interests is to develop and support young people from minorities groups in Europe and beyond through involvement into active citizenship. Our activities is aim to contribute to the preservation, emergence, and the revival of the talents of the young people.
As we started the NGO in 2013 the main aim was to participate in the Youth in action / Erasmus plus program. We see the program as an incredible opportunity to offer our knowledge and skills while learning from others, but with time our activities became more than just Erasmus plus, we still believe that through organizing and joining Erasmus plus projects home and abroad we increase our chance to come in contact with more youth in different areas of Sweden which is can expand our NGO. We are 7 board members. 4 of us works part time with the NGO, we have 31 registered members in the NGO, But we believe that we have a bigger number than that, since a lot of times we don’t require participants that joins our activities to sign up for the NGO.We are open to everyone and our vision is to reach out for more youth

email: ungdomsfronten@gmail.com Facebook

  Toplumsal Kültür ve Gelişim Derneği

TOGEL (Social Culture and Development Organization) is a non-profit and non-governmental organization founded by 22 well-qualified charter members in 2007. It is  one of the most popular social organizations in İstanbul, Turkey. We were able to contribute to  awareness of urban development and  enhance  intercultural dialogue in the community .
Our vision is “The realization of the targeted idea in the future”. Our main aims are to cooperate with the relevant public entities and institutions in Turkey and abroad with a view to helping young individuals in need of social protection to participate in social life and protecting them from discrimination, to inform and encourage the private sector in respect of employment of the young people, and to help young people become self-sufficient individuals socially and economically, to create proactive partnerships between public entities and institutions, NGOs and the private sector as regards to employment of young people, to review international projects carried out in regard to young people with a view to making comparisons on a national basis, and to provide the best in service, to develop non-formal education and international cooperation.
As understood by the name of our organization, we aim to develop society and the individuals’ lives in every aspect. That’s why, we also work with women and children to educate them, protect their rights, to help women develop their skills to increase their chances of employability.
We support students who study fine arts in their work to raise young artists in many fields. We support them with scholarships and invite them to our exhibitions to portray their work. We organize these events in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Istanbul to help local people to meet with art.
We organize and take part in international projects to produce solutions to critical problems in the world and to provide youngsters these opportunities to develop themselves in many areas. We train young people and send youth workers to be trained in social and humanitarian issues to tackle the problems in local, national and international levels.
We not only improve the conditions and lifestyles of young people but also take care of our elderly as our aim is to reach every segment of this society. To do this, in our local area, with the support of Maltepe Municipality, we send our volunteers to Maltepe Huzurevi, Yaşlı Bakım ve Rehabilitasyon Merkezi (Maltepe Senior and Rehabilitation Centre) to spend quality time with the elderly people in the society, keep them active and create and sustain a healthier aging environment for them

email: togel.projects@gmail.com         Website

Opportunity Global

OpportUNITY is a Non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation with an aim to inspire, support and empower young people. This is achieved through the
3 themes of promoting, Education and Training in healthier lifestyles and Greater social cohesion.
It delivers programmes in Youth Development, Youth Leadership, Citizenship and Youth Education. It promotes learning through diversionary and non- formal activities such as sport, media and creative or performing arts. It is a strictly voluntary organisation and voluntarism is something that it promotes amongst the young people it works with.
It is a key partner in local and regional youth policy making, and an active member of youth sector networks. It strongly supports community cohesion and engages positively with young people from different socio-economic and ethnic minority backgrounds to bring communities together through the medium of the said activities.
Its Youth Participation projects support the involvement of young people in decision making, and civic engagement, through school councils, local youth councils and national level through Youth Parliament. This allows them to actively participate in shaping their futures.
We have been working in the filed of non-formal education and with the previous programme – Youth in Action and then Erasmus+ since then. We have written, implemented and evaluated over twenty Youth Mobility Activities. We covered various topics such as inter faith dialogue, effectively using new media as a tool for NGO’s and also training of trainers and youth leaders. Therefore, we feel competent and ready to share and multiply knowledge about Erasmus+ among other, like-minded organisations coming from different countries all over Europe

Email: office@opportunityuk.org Facebook