SPAIN Intercultural life, educación activa por un mundo intercultural www.intercultural-life.com

TURKEY Gaziantep Eğitim ve Gençlik Derneği www.geged.org

Friedenskreis Halle e.V.

In many people the experience of a peaceful political change in 1989 awoke hopes of a home country without military. In 1990, people from different citizens’ initiatives in Halle brought these hopes together and founded the Friedenskreis Halle e.V. Today, people of various world views, religions, nationalities and political affiliations are working together at Friedenskreis Halle e.V. We see peace not as a state of affairs, not as a far-off goal and not just as the absence of war. Peace is the basic for a life in coexistence determined by co-operation, justice and non-violence. This enables the individual to pursue and live its freedom. In order to realise this aim we are trying to open up and impart new ways leading towards such a life, while questioning them at the same time. We commit ourselves to the fields of education work, peace policy and set up projects for civilian conflict management in Germany and abroad.

Our current programmes and projects:

o Seminaries and educational programmes in the areas of communication, conflict resolution, mediation, dealing with violence, learning how to speak out and anti-racism

o Consulting services for initiatives and projects that are working with the same ideas

o Lectures and seminaries on current peace-associated themes

o Civil conflict resolution through the development of an educational and encounter centre in Jajce, Bosnia

o International Voluntary Services with the programmes „European Vonuntary Service“ and „weltwärts“

o EVS-Seminaries in cooperation with ICJA e.V., Berlin/ Germany

o Workcamps, youth encounters and volunteer work in the countries of the Balkans

o Counselling on military service and conscientious objection

o Cooperation in activities and campaigns against militarisation

o Operation of the biggest peace-related library in eastern Germany

o Coordination of the project

Our work is made possible through full-time and voluntary work, private donations and public funding. At the time 9 employees, 1 EVS-Volunteer and a high number of volunteers and trainers are working in the association.

Intercultural life, educación activa por un mundo intercultural

We are an association active in the field of non-formal education. With our projects and seminars we want to offer a frame for creative and permanent learning experiences, which allow the participants to develop their abilities of interaction, reflexion and social action. We want to foster key competences which are important for the life in a modern globalized word such as intercultural competence, communication skills and critical thinking.

We want to promote:

• Intercultural learning
• Participation and democratic citizenship
• Tolerance and respect
• Gender justice
• Integration of marginal groups (ethnic minorities, migrants, young people with fewer opportunities, persons with a disability etc.)
• Environmental awarenes
• Learning of new social key competences

Our main target groups are young people with fewer opportunities as well as social workers, youth workers and teachers who are working with these youngsters. We are cooperating with schools, centers for vocational training, NGOs and public bodies.

We offer seminars and workshops, coaching for youth initiatives, international projects like youth exchanges, training courses, networking projects and international language courses, as well as consulting services in european youthwork. From 2011 on we will also get involved with the European Voluntary Service.

Methodology

Our work is based on the principles of active education, an educational approach which defines the individual as the actor of its own educational process. Our methods facilitate cooperation and participation and offer opportunities to discover other social and cultural realities, to act, to communicate, to reflect and thus to learn.. The learning process unites the cognitive, the affective and the action-oriented levels.

In our activities we use a diversitiy of non-formal educational methods like energizers, teambuilding activities, creative methods like collage, video, foto or theatre, outdoor experiential education or role plays among others.

Gaziantep Education and Youth Association

Who we are:

· A non governmental organization

· A provider of non formal education

· An accredited sending, hosting and coordinater organisation for European Voluntary Service programme

· Having adult education centres, schools

Our aims:

• To stimulate demand for Life long learning among the adult population

• To increase awareness of the local and regional authorities in relation with Life Long Learning

• To give the possibility for the large public of the Gaziantep region to acknowledge which is the "way the water flows..." in the future, in education and learning process

What we do:

· Planning, implementing, evaluating educational issues and activities and activities for adults and youngsters in our city

· Arranging different types of social activities for local communities

· We also help our adult education centers and NGOs to make use of EU Education and Youth programmes

· Cooperating with other institutions concerned education

Our target groups:

· Adults

· Young people, youthworkers

· Parents

· Our members

· Handicapped and socio-economically disadvantaged people

· The staff at our organizations