The best practice examples address different challenges in promoting active participation of all European citizens and the possibilities to take action NOW as well as to empower partner organisations and their beneficiaries.
The beneficiaries are citizens engaged and willing to give their time, ec4la strengthen the role of volunteer initiatives and empower individuals in taking (local) action.
Ecofindes is a young iniciative to support the rural development and to gain new skills for youngsters, mainly coming from university and interested in biology and agriculture.
The Wieliszew Commune began running workcamps with FIYE support in 2005 after Pawel Kownacki (at that time a worker of the Commune Office and the president of the youth association “eMka”, currently the Head of the Wieliszew Commune) had gone to a workcamp in Holland and imported this idea to his local community.
Perämeri National Park, Tornio, Lapland (Finland), 10-16.6.2012
5 international volunteers met there with local people to spend a week and help local people to clean the sea surrounding. Sustainability is a vital core value to Allianssi Youth Exchanges, moreover in such a protected and wild area as Lapland is!
ZUSAMMEN LEBEN is a program from Grenzenlos since 2010 and it’s done in cooperation between Grenzenlos and Interface (funded by the city of Vienna- Ministry of Integration and Culture - MA 17).
How did all started: In 2009, Grenzenlos saw the need to develop more local programs in order to have a more direct impact in the Austrian community as well as the communities living in Austria.
The Café Global Local was a multicultural place in the middle of the 7th district of Budapest, designed, created and run by the participants from Réunion island (France) and Hungary.
One of the core activities of TE IS is organizing and implementing summer camps for children and youth (target group: 6-18 years old children and youth, 10 days).
Participants are coming from Budapest and all over Hungary, children with fewer opportunities also included.
Project of volunteering around social animation in popular neighbourhood of the 19th district in Paris
Description: Two volunteers worked during one year with Concordia to build a local of animation for children and teenagers of this district. The main purpose is to promote citizenship and respect in this neighbourhood around cultural and social activities.
Project of European Volunteering in the city of Bobigny around the highlighting of an old train station of deportation during the Second World War
Description: One German volunteer worked during one year on the project of rehabilitation of a station of deportation which the main goal was to create events on the evolution of the links between France and Germany. The project is born from the will of the City-Hall of Bobigny to develop their heritage and their links with the European Union and more particularly with Germany.
