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About CUBIC

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Name of organization: CUBIC – Cultur & Bildung im Context
Street address: Oberes Estrichfeld 6 A
Postcode: 6170
City: Zirl
Region: Tyrol
Country: Austria
Organization’s Email: office@cubic-online.eu
Website: http://www.cubic-online.eu
Telephone: +43 660 2012437

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INSTAGRAM

Contact person:

Mr Leo Kaserer
Position/function: CEO
Contact Email: leo.kaserer@cubic-online.eu
Contact telephone: +43 660 7101837

Profile of the member organisation/center

Type of organisation: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Status of organisation: non-governmental
Activity level of organisation: international

Short description of organisation / center

CUBIC is a non-profit organisation established in 2005 to support young people with fewer opportunities to find their passion, develop self-awareness and expand their horizons; this is achieved through delivering innovative international projects that are culturally immersive, educational and unique.

In its activities CUBIC aims at encouraging intercultural exchange and learning processes. CUBIC tries to improve especially the opportunities of young people of getting involved in social and labour life, giving special attention to the inclusion of disadvantaged youth.

Our overall aim is to support young people with fewer opportunities – to offer them a secure frame and environment of learning, including a clear timetable and daily structure, to give them the chance to prove themselves in new situations and give them impulses to develop their self-perception and self-esteem, to help them orientate in their current life situations, and to encourage them to take a stake in their life, and to help them find ideas and motivation for further action.

Integration the intercultural learning, human rights education and education for active citizenship in its activities:

We are always looking for fresh ways to inspire, engage and empower young people, and we want to offer them opportunities to create experiences which are relevant and rewarding by using the principle of non-formal learning and practical activities, for example:

  • teamwork,
  • communication,
  • awareness of community values and the value of community work,
  • outdoor work experience,
  • handicraft and woodworking skills,
  • self-organisation,
  • taking responsibility,
  • development of soft skills,
  • self-confidence and self-esteem.

Our experience in organization of international youth activities and the training of youth workers in multinational and multicultural context:

CUBIC’s members, professionals in the field of youth and social work and training development, are experienced in educational project management, and have more than 10 years’ experience in managing EU projects and working with the target group of disadvantaged young people and adults. The team has relevant experience in Youth in Action and Erasmus+ projects in different settings and is cooperating with international partners especially in the context of the “Rückenwind” network. Our team has extensive international youth work expertise and organisational know-how, combined with excellent language skills and proficiency in using the new technologies and tools for visibility.


Our strategy for inclusion project, “Rückenwind”, (for youth aged 16 – 30, with fewer opportunities) won an award from the Austrian Ministry for Youth in 2008 and, in 2012, CUBIC won the Audience Award of the SOZIALMARIE for the social innovative projects. We are well supported by many other carefully selected professional associates, usually commissioned for a particular project or event as trainers, facilitators or group leaders. These people come from a wide variety of social and professional backgrounds. The positive experiences and the tangible personal developments of young people with fewer opportunities as visible results of our projects are the source of motivation for us.

The mechanisms we use in our organization / center in terms of ensuring the participation of young people in preparation and realization of our activities:

CUBIC acts as a resource for young people by providing assistance and organising programmes of physical, educational and other activities as a means of helping them advancing in life and developing their skills, capacities and capabilities, and enabling them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals.

We follow the idea of equity vs equality which means that from our understanding we have to provide the necessary measures to ensure that everyone can be successful and counts as a valuable part of society.

We want to inspire young people to expand their horizons and aspirations and deal successfully with transition, to recognise and value young people’s positive contributions to society, to encourage participation in social enterprise and community action projects (local, national and international) and to increase young people’s understanding of global issues.

Where we see the role of our organization / center in promotion and implementation of the youth policies of Council of Europe in your country, region and internationally:

CUBIC is working with partners who put the volunteer, their needs and their learning potential in the centre of their efforts. And we have the chance to cooperate with many organizations around Europe who put inclusion as their priority. We work closely with communities and municipalities.

Staff and board members from our partner organisations have established links to the communities which allows us to have a range of associated partners from diverse fields. We are in contact with local NGOs on the ground who are proposing possible fields of contribution (e.g. tree planting) or invite the groups of volunteers to their own activities (e.g. public beach cleaning day). Our plan is to support the needs of the local community and to run regular volunteer hosting programmes aimed mainly at young people from backgrounds of fewer opportunities – an area where we have an excellent track record of successful engagement.

The facilities of our organization / center (accommodation, educational facilities, training staff, specific methodologies etc.):

We create space, support ideas and develop projects: We work together with youth and social workers, educational institutions and public amenities to develop and implement youth qualification and employment projects within “Rückenwind”, together with our cooperation partner Arbeiterkammer Tirol.

Our priorities / fields of interest for cooperation with other members of the Network in the sphere of intercultural learning:

We want to focus on working with young people with fewer opportunities as well as providing youth workers with tools and methods to implement in their daily work with underprivileged youth.

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About S&G – System and Generation Association

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Contact person

Profile of the member organisation/center

  • Type of organisation: NGO
  • Status of organisation: non-governmental
  • Activity level of organisation: international

Short description of organisation / center:

System and Generation Association – S&G was established in 2008.

Our staff is formed of: EU specialist, lawyer, specialist of the development, academician, PCM-master, youth trainers, civil servant and people corded to private sector in our association. In addition to this, there are 200 volunteers and %90 of those is between the ages of 13-30.

S&G aims at making young people integrated with the society, encouraging their entrepreneurial spirit, helping them acquire knowledge and qualification getting them know young people from different cultures, empowering sympathy and tolerance, improving cooperation and encouraging European cooperation with young people, supporting the cooperation between the international institutions.

Motto of S&G: imagining the societal systems of yesterday and today can facilitate the generation of foresight in order to build tomorrow.

OUR VISION is to contribute to:

  • Personal Development
  • Vocational Qualification
  • Employability of Young People by means of facilitating their participation in Learning Oriented European Journey and getting S&G operating at EU Level until the year 2023.

MISSION: To contribute a sustainable development and overcome the size of youngsters dreams by increasing the international mobility of young people and imaging the societal systems of yesterday and today.
S&G gets into the act about: increasing of economic growth, providing efficiency about increasing and sustaining production, sustainability that cares socioeconomic needs and planning that analyse the problems, and also with the belief of projecting process, considering co-working culture by reaching this target as the best way, combining the systems which made in EU and creativity of our citizens especially the youth.

Fields of Work: S&G Youth Caravan: for promotion of Visa-Free Europe, EurodeskTR and Education& Traininig with Erasmus+ for Youth as a Mobile youth Centre.

  • S&G Trainers Team:
  • Project Development,
  • Implementation and Trainings in Pro-Active Citizenship,
  • PCM,
  • Visual Production etc.
  • S&G Office works as a Project Development Incubator and Learning Centre for Intercultural Learninig Oriented European Journeys.
  • S&G Club operates for Learning Foreign Language, Intercultural Mobility, Visual Arts, Physical Activities and Intergenerational Gatherings.

Integrating the intercultural learning, human rights education and education for active citizenship in its activities:

S&G joined more than 50 projects on youth field both in domestic and overseas, prepared projects, presented and carried out them since its establishment.
Three projects of S&G applied with Non-Formal Learning Techniques, were selected as Best Practice by TNRA, EU and ALF, such as:

  • Youth Caravan,
  • New Constitution and
  • EVS in Greece about Environment

S&G is an incubator for project development.
Our association has hosted in Turkey TC, YE, seminars, study sessions, conferences etc., we already sent 70 participants abroad and host for different projects (TC, YE, EVS) in Turkey. In 2014 we developed and implement project ICE – Intercultural Citizenship Education which is include different topics from area of human rights education and active citizenship education. Often we work in this topics with the cooperation with Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation.

Our experience in organization of international youth activities and the training of youth workers in multinational and multicultural context:

S&G regulary working in area of non-formal education for youth and youth workers.
Almost all our training courses has been organized in international level with cooperation minimum as 3-4 European countries (January 2015).
In April 2014 we implemented TC ICE – Intercultural Citizenship Education, organized for youth workers from 7 countries about non-formal education methods for teaching for active citizenship in intercultural community.
Before this, our organization was as a partner for the TC organized by Slovakian partners: How to run Youth Centers. Members of our organization were involved as trainers and facilitators.

The mechanisms we use in your organization / center in terms of ensuring the participation of young people in preparation and realization of our activities:

Nowadays we have in your organization a few initiative groups of young people who are involved as volunteers to our daily activities and who are working on developing their own projects. Usually, we involve young people in a project idea development phase by using brainstorming and discussions.
During the project preparation and implementation we give for them tasks and responsibilities, which volunteers do with the facilitation of other experienced members of organization. To involve more young people we using our website and pages in social networks for announcement.

Where we see the role of your organization / center in promotion and implementation of the youth policies of Council of Europe in our country, region and internationally:

First of as one of main goals of our organization is to inform young people about youth policy of European Union by using EU programmes and tools as: Erasmus+ (Youth in Action – before Erasmus+).
With our project Youth Caravan – we informing local (Turkish) youth about all the opportunities which EU has for young people’s personal and professional development. We actively participate in all kinds of National and International discussions for youth policy making and decission-making. For this issue, we are actively cooperating with Turkish National Agency.

The facilities of our organization / center (accommodation, educational facilities, training staff, specific methodologies etc.):

Our organization’s office equipped all necessary technical and educational equipment for work with young people and for their development as: wifi, video camera, place for discussions, working areas with computers, projector and boards, books and brochures.
Most of our members has education in areas related to youth work: psychology, social work, social pedagogy and management. Their experience in area of project design and management, working as a trainers and facilitators for youth and speak at least one foreign language. One of the specific methods which we usually use in our work: participatory video making methodology. For better management we usually use electronic system by using drive tools and emailing.

Our priorities / fields of interest for cooperation with other members of the Network in the sphere of intercultural learning:

  • Good quality EVS;
  • Youth workers education;
  • Intercultural learning;
  • Lifelong Learning;
  • Entrepreneurship;
  • Non-Formal Education.

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About ACT for SOCIETY Centre

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Name: ACT for SOCIETY Centre
Street address: Rruga “Blv. Zhanë D’ark” Nd.61, H.5, Ap.24.
City: Tirane
Region: Albania
Country: Albania
E-mail: actfsociety@gmail.com
Website: http://www.actforsocietycenter.org/
Telephone: +355 (0)445074477

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Contact person

Mrs Armela Pengili
Position/function: Executive Director
Contact Email: pengiliarmela@gmail.com
Contact Telephone: +355698304533

Profile of the member organisation/center

Type of organisation: Non Profit Organization
Status of organisation: non-governmental
Activity level of organisation: national

Short description of organisation / center:

We are an Albanian NGO, established in January 2012, with a special focus on young generation and European values. ACT for SOCIETY Centre believes in the power of change. It aims at making this change happen through “…new, creative, and effective strategies and initiatives…“

ACT for SOCIETY Centre recognizes that Albanian’s young democracy must become increasingly self-reliant and lead its own development. In the current situation, the pressing need is to encourage a greater capacity development, awareness, and participation by Albanian institutions and local communities.

ACT for SOCIETY Centre also believes that best results are produced through the right combination of development project integrating strong capacity development thus enabling project actors and beneficiaries to implement effective and efficient projects that also provide for impact on society and sustainability of results.

We are currently working with three projects.

Be a Man Club is one of our campaigns. “Be a man” lifestyles campaign, which aims to reinforce key messages of the Young Men Initiative and encourage changes at the school level and beyond. The campaign is supported by variety of educational materials, social media and “activities” organized and conducted by the students, members of “Be a man” clubs (abbreviated BMC). Members of “Be a man” clubs are both young men and women, and in the region they gather several hundred active members. In the Balkans, there are currently 40 active “Be a man” clubs with 1,500 active members. Leading philosophy of the Young Men Initiative is that young men should not be seen as an obstacle to peace and gender equality, but as key allies in the promotion of non-violent, healthy relationships and communities.

Young women, as active members of the community, should be active participants in society, as well as agents of change. We always work with young people and they are always welcomed to our office for everything that they need.

We focus on gender equality and equity, human rights, anti-violence and anti-extremism, participation in democracy, youth capacity-building.
Objectives :

  • Advocacy and awareness-raising, focusing on human rights topic;
  • Promote human rights and inclusiveness of marginalized groups and vulnerable groups;
  • Enhance youth activities through non-formal education;
  • Stimulate transparent decision-making processes in democracy;
  • Embrace think-tank ideology and stimulate research;
  • Active participation in international, regional and national networks;
  • Peace – Building through Culture and Art.

ACT for SOCIETY Center has immensely invested in human resources development. Upon its establishment, our staff received comprehensive training and technical support including training retreats, training of trainers/training of consultants, regional internships, and on-the-job training that is followed by continuous professional and personal development.

We are Accredited for EVS (European Volunteer Service) – Sending, Receiving and Coordinating Organisation with code 2015-1-SI02-KA110-013235 within the European Commission’s Erasmus+/ Youth in Action Programme.

Integration of the intercultural learning, human rights education and education for active citizenship in its activities:

Until our establishment we have organized more than 35 projects, projects with focus on gender, human rights, anticipation, art andculture. In focus is Non-Formal Learning Techniques, we have organized: info sessions Training Courses, Youth Exchange, seminars, study sessions, conferences, street actions, and different campaigns etc.

Our experience in organization of international youth activities and the training of youth workers in multinational and multicultural context:

All our training courses have been organized in international context with the cooperation of minimum 7-9 European countries. Our first experience was in 2013 with one Training Course in Italy. We have run a project by our organization called: Gender in Youth Work: Perspectives, Challenges and Opportunity, in collaboration with 9 partners from the region and European Countries. We are partners in more than 20 Youth in Action and Erasmus+ Projects.

The mechanisms we use in our organization / center in terms of ensuring the participation of young people in preparation and realization of our activities:

To involve more young people in our center we are using our website and pages in social networks for calls, another thing that we have is a club with our volunteers, they are free to create idea for different projects, especially in projects with schools and universities. Always we are using brainstorming and discussions in our daily work.

Where we see the role of our organization / center in promotion and implementation of the youth policies of Council of Europe in our country, region and internationally:

One of our main goals is to educate young people on human rights, gender and extremism, with the support of our donors we are working on those topics especially by using non-formal education methodology. Second but not last is to inform young people about youth policy of European Union by using EU programmes and tools as: Erasmus+ (Youth in Action – before Erasmus+). We have and one program that is called MasterPeace, when we are creating different projects using Art and Theater as tools of non-formal education.

The facilities of our organization / center(accommodation, educational facilities, training staff, specific methodologies etc.).

Our Center has all necessary technical and educational equipmentfor working with young people and for their development as: working areas with computers, printers, projector, boards, books and brochures, WiFi, video camera, place for discussions..etc

The staffs of our Center is well-trained professionals in youth issues, gender issue, unemployment, EU integration process, good governance and reinforcement of institutions etc. All these experience and skills have come because of lots of trainings in which they have been involved and because of the experience they have gained in the implementation of many projects. This is a guarantee that they have the right knowledge and the experience to fully implement all the activities foreseen in this project to be implemented by ACT for SOCIETY Center.

Our priorities / fields of interest for cooperation with other members of the Network in the sphere of intercultural learning:

  • Non-Formal Education; 
  • Youth workers education; 
  • Intercultural learning; 
  • Lifelong Learning;
  • European Voluntary Service.