Connect Project Partners

We were born in 2000 with a simple and ambitious idea:

Helping young people from all over Europe to meet and collaborate on the common ground of intercultural dialogue and active citizenship.

Through the main international programs for mobility and education we have carried out youth exchanges, training courses, seminars, volunteer programs that have involved thousands of people in important individual growth paths. At the same time we have developed local projects for the enhancement of the territory in the name of a respectful globalization of identities.

Subsequently, faced with a global crisis whose terrible effects affected above all the new generations, we expanded our activities to collaboration with institutions, educational bodies and social actors. This led to large-scale projects in the fields of non-formal education and the transmission of transversal skills for access to the labor market. Projects that took place in partnership with the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, the Regional Employment Agency, ERSU – Regional Body for the Right to Education, Province of Cagliari, Municipality of Cagliari, University of Studies, Confesercenti.

Global Citizens’ Academy (GCA) aims to promote active global citizenship and sustainability among young people in Lithuania and beyond. It is built on the fundamental values of social justice, solidarity, respect, responsibility for oneself, other people and the planet, open-mindedness, active participation, cooperation and belief in making a difference. The activities of GCA help to:

• raise awareness of young people about the global interconnectedness, diversity in the societies and their personal role towards fighting global injustice and climate change;
• encourage youngsters to explore and understand the complexity of different global issues, e.g., poverty, inequality, climate change, etc.;
• boost active participation of young people so that they contribute to the sustainable changes in the society by their own action.

The NGO “IUVENTA” works in the areas of: youth participation, youth policy, volunteerism, human rights, violence prevention, gender equality, democracy and civil society.

IUVENTA gives information, help and support to the youth about non formal education, social mobility, learning mobility, volunteer work and internships abroad, ecology and sustainable development.

Our daily work consists in organizing activities with a variety of learners, at local, national and international level. We make a deep analysis of those that are the needs of the youngsters and we are including them into the topic for the project so we can give the equal chance to every young person to contribute in every field they feel comfortable to work about.

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The association Intercultura was founded in 2000 by 3 young citizens, who were very actively involved in the field of education. The aim of the association is to promote intercultural dialogue and human rights education. In the same way that biodiversity is essential to the health and well-being of human, we believe that cultural diversity and the learning of it, can empower us, and live better together. The approach of our work is based on the principles of “ Education Populaire” and international
solidarity. Intercultura organizes training courses, meetings and seminars, and helps to support projects (local associations, young people, municipalities, school etc.). We use methods based on cooperation and participation. People have the space to share experiences, and to fine solution through the resources produced by collective intelligence.

We develop and produce tools to stimulate: -Emergence of ideas -creativity- reflection-
discussion- Dialogue. The final objective is to empower individuals or local communities to act Intercultura have an expertise on social and cultural issues. We have developed many projects aiming at mixing rural and urban realities in order to appropriate the reciprocal stakes and to find solutions (Regeneration project, The Green Hand, Stay). We always try to value cultural diversity, and allow people who are far away from each other to meet, work together, and create something together. (Politicians with young citizens, newcomers, immigrants, with local rural youth, young people with old people, students with unemployed…).

SIEDAS is a non-profit association that focuses particularly on young people who want to find out their talent, discover the spirit of entrepreneurship and principles of sustainable society. SIEDAS cooperated with Slovak university of Agriculture in Nitra, is co-founder or Regional Youth Council of Nitra, is full member of TDM 2000 International. As a coordinator and partner works on KA1, KA3, Solidarity projects and KA2 projects focused on entrepreneurship, unemployment, democracy and youth work.

The Social Policy and Action Organization, a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization (reg. no. 4146) was established in Cyprus in August 2014. The primary cause of the Organization is to work towards the enhancement of quality of life of citizens and human welfare, primarily those with fewer opportunities, covering all social policy related areas in Cyprus. The Organization through its work actively supports and promotes the most important principles of quality of life, for all people, thus being, among others, Human Well Being, Health, Financial Independence, Family Status, Socialization and Social Protection.

TÜRKONFED (Turkish Enterprise and Business Confederation) is a non-governmental business organization, aiming to contribute to the development of regional, sectoral and national economic policies. TÜRKONFED is an associate member of SMEunited, formerly known as UEAPME, which is the association of crafts and SMEs in Europe with around 65 member organisations from over 30 European countries since 11th of February, 2014. It is a non-profit seeking and non-partisan organization.
Regional development, vocational education and employment, competitiveness and innovation are TÜRKONFED’s main areas of activity. With the overriding goal of improvements in these fields, TÜRKONFED leads academic and field studies, identifies problems, generates targeted solutions and shares its opinion with stakeholders and policy makers. Furthermore, TÜRKONFED focuses on enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs.

TDM 2000 Eesti is an apolitical, independent, no-profit organization with educational aims that coordinates youngsters willing to cooperate in the voluntary sector and one of the founder members of the TDM 2000 International network. We promote youth mobility through the realization of youth exchange programs among youngsters from all around the world. This activity aims to develop the consciousness of peace, international cooperation, and mutual understanding. We also provide leisure time activities for young people and try to create links between different communities.

TDM 2000 Eesti cooperates and networks with various other NGOs and entities all over the country to generate added value. It takes part in the actions of the Estonian Youth Council and the Union of Youth Workers of Estonia and cooperates with several youth clubs and NGOs. We create links among individuals from different cultures that operate in different communities. The contact and the comparison between them modify their own way of interacting with their original economic and social environment.