Get to know our partners better
ASSOCIATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA DEMOCRATIE LOCALE
ALDA – European Association for Local Democracy, is a French-registered association dedicated to the promotion of good governance, active citizenship, and cooperation between local authorities and civil society in Europe, its neighbourhood, and all around the world, mainly acting through participative methods and decentralised cooperation. As a core element, ALDA supports citizens and groups of citizens in their initiatives aimed at improving their local context, and building bridges with local authorities in order to make this change real. ALDA was established in 1999 at the initiative of the Council of Europe to coordinate and support the network of Local Democracy Agencies (LDAs), which are self-sustainable, locally registered NGOs acting as promoters of good governance and local self-government, with which ALDA collaborates in many activities. ALDA is a membership-based organisation gathering today more than 350 members, including local authorities, associations of local authorities, and civil society organisations, coming from more than 45 countries in the enlarged Europe. ALDA is funded through membership fees, as well as project funding from the European Commission, the Council of Europe and other public and private donors.
KMOP - KENTRO MERIMNAS IKOGENEIAS KAI PAIDIOU
KMOP, established in 1977, is one of the oldest civil society organisations in Greece offering social support services and implementing various programs aimed at empowering and enhancing the well-being of individuals and communities. In recent years, KMOP has expanded its reach globally, currently having a presence in 5 countries and permanent offices in Athens, Piraeus, Thessaloniki, Brussels, Skopje, and Tirana. KMOP is dedicated to addressing social challenges through evidence-based solutions that promote individual and collective prosperity. Our focus is on designing and executing innovative social services that enhance individual self-worth, reduce inequality, and foster inclusive and sustainable social development. Over the past 20 years, we have successfully carried out more than 400 social innovation initiatives with the support of both institutional and private donors. Our efforts have directly benefited over 85,000 individuals.
ACTIONAID INTERNATIONAL ITALIA
ActionAid Italia (AAIT) is an NGO established in Italy in 1989 and part of an international federation working with over 15 million people in more than 40 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America to achieve social justice, gender equality and poverty eradication. AAIT has a strong expertise in sensitizing, mobilizing and activating people in Italy and Europe on global and national issues and has several EU-funded projects that aim to promote multi-level governance systems through increased citizen participation as well as youth activism on social and climate justice. It has developed several methods and tools to promote active participation of young people including laboratories, campaigns and mobilization activities and runs a capacity building programme for activists, particularly youth, since 2021.
GROUPE SOS SOLIDARITES - ASSFAM
GROUPE SOS SOLIDARITES-ASSFAM is a non – profit national organisation founded in 1951 in France to support migrants in their integration through the implementation of their rights . Since 2010, ASSFAM GROUPE SOS SOLIDARITES is involved in retention centers. The association helps migrants who are going to be deported to exercise their rights. ASSFAM supports migrant families and youngsters. During the SAS and Below 10 projects we have aidded the development of transversal and multi-disciplinary solutions and methods to improve the skills which both schools and informal education actors need to work together. Introducing didactic methods oriented to re-motivating all students, including those more disadvantaged, was also an important theme and achievement.
OESTERREICHISCHE JUNGARBEITERBEWEGUNG - ÖJAB
ÖJAB offers living quarters for 4,600 individuals at 23 dormitories for students and other young people. Additionally, each year ÖJAB supports 2,000 young people and adults (for the most part from socially underprivileged backgrounds) in acquiring education as well as training that qualifies them for the job market. The ÖJAB and the BPI of ÖJAB (professional training institute of ÖJAB) have so far participated in many projects related to the integration of socio-economical disadvantaged people on national and the EU level. In the frame of Erasmus+ programme, ÖJAB has participated in multiple KA1 mobility projects of youth as a hosting organisation. Furthermore, ÖJAB has been active in eight Erasmus+ KA205 Youth projects. In this context, the topic of sustainability is an essential part of the EU projects implemented by the organisation.
NUORTEN AKATEMIA RY
Youth Academy is a non-profit organization founded in 1994 by Finnish youth and sport organizations to support and strengthen young people’s involvement in society. It promotes youth participation and inclusion in both formal and non-formal education.
The strong expertise of Youth Academy is rooted in long-standing experience in executing workshops to bring young people together with organizations and experts to discuss current topics and find solutions to societal problems.
Youth Academy is a project-based organization, and its projects are firmly based on the needs and trends of today’s society. Topics include, for example, social accessibility, working with youth in challenging situations, climate change, sports, intellectual property rights, sexual health, youth unemployment and personal economy.
In all its work, Youth Academy emphasizes participatory processes and youth engagement. Collaborating with partner organizations in Finland and internationally, Youth Academy focuses on facilitating young people’s participation, learning and own projects. It also provides useful materials, tools and training for adults working with young people.
Youth Academy has 15 member organizations that include the largest Finnish youth, youth free-time and sport associations, such as Finnish Olympic Committee, Scouts of Finland, The Finnish Nature Association, School Sports Federation and 4H in Finland. Also, Youth Academy has a broad network of youth workers, youth free time activity’ providers, partner schools and teachers all over Finland, and so holds a good reputation in reaching young people in schools and other learning institutes.
The most important partners of Youth Academy include the Ministry for Education and Culture of Finland and Finland’s Slot Machine Association. Youth Academy also cooperates with several other public institutions, such as the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Finnish Transport Agency, and the European Union. Additionally, the organization receives funding from private trusts and companies.
POLSKA RADA ORGANIZACJI MLODZIEZOWYCH - PROM
The Polish Council of Youth Organisations is a forum for cooperation between non-governmental organisations to which young Poles have access. We act as the National Youth Council at the European Youth Forum. The aim of PROM is, among other things, to popularise young people in public life, inform public opinion about the state of youth policy in Poland and represent the organisation. The fundamental issue is to take action towards a solution and for innovative youth policy in Poland. Thanks to this, we can assist young Poles in the debate on their rights, privileges and future. PROM reaches over a quarter of a million people in participating organisations operating both nationwide, regionally and locally. PROM also represents Polish youth at EU Youth Conferences.
We are an advocacy youth organization. Our daily activities are based on creating space for debate on the issues most important to young people and on constant monitoring of legislation and advocacy. Actively we are participating and cooperating with parliamentary youth commission, ministry ands the consultation group on the side of president, which give us access to be involved representatives of many different youth circles, as well as decision-makers. These activities on policy making level brings us to our other activity – gathering youth councils on local and regional level to give them access to governmental bodies, help them to constitute, work and have an impact in their community. In that case we are addressing our international partnerships and projects to active youth from all over Poland.. For years, PROM has involved non-governmental organisations working on behalf of young people as one of its tools. Representatives of the organizations act as experts in debates, but also as trainers and advisors in many of the organisations activities.(these paragraphs can be left out; begin below) Since the beginning of its existence (2011) PROM has implemented dozens of projects concerning broadly understood youth policy, connected with youth advocacy, increasing youth participation in public life or youth councils. PROM is an organisation with a wide range of experience in implementing projects financed from various sources – from European funds (mainly: Erasmus+), as well as others, for example, projects financed by foundations of state-owned companies. Our structure is based on the several volunteering teams as well as delegates who are nominated by PROMs partner youth organizations. The coordination is based on the responsibilities of the board. Our working groups are; delegates team, team of the youth councils, team for the communication with governmental bodies, media team and teams which are established for certain project reasons and goals. We do not have any permanent workers. We work based on temporary contracts and as volunteers.