Partners

The International Department of the Happy Childhood Foundation was established in 1994. Yearly, we carry out about 30 projects within the frames of the Polish-German Youth Cooperation, the Youth in Action Programme, the Visegrad Fund and the Polish-Lithuanian Youth Exchange Fund. The projects encompass among others: trainings, youth programmes, the European voluntary service and meetings of the representatives of organizations active in the same field.

The youth programmes focus on such areas as: sport, history, tradition and culture, music, art or literature. The youth meetings organized by the Foundation usually take place at the educational centre in Motycz Leśny. This is where the youth from different countries meet, share their experience, learn from one another, undertake various initiatives and present their cultures.

Some projects are run abroad, e.g. in Germany, France, Hungary, Romania, Turkey or the Ukraine. Last but not least, we contribute to the development of the European voluntary service through hosting volunteers from other countries and providing them with an opportunity to gain new experience and take their first steps in the world of voluntary work.

“We really hope that it won’t be one time. Our plan is to create big international society of Fantasy & RPG fans in next 2 years. Thanks to “Youth In Action” Programme it’s really possible. We are waiting for you in Poland, this is our first big step in our great dream”.

Andrzej Smyk
Polish group leader

The “International Initiatives for Cooperation - IIC” Association is an organization founded by persons concerned by strengthening the civic society in Bulgaria and in the Mesta region. Among them there is a number of people with expertise in developing projects financed by national and foreign donors.

“IIC Association also works with young people and we believe that this project gives the opportunity to the youths to meet and cooperate with their peers from other European countries interested in fantasy, science-fiction, RPG and LARP”.

Veselina Nikolova
Bulgarian group leader

We are a group of English language class students that includes 13 high school students from Turkey, aged 15 to 18. We are interested in discovering foreign cultures and meeting new people from other countries. Our main aim is to transform any prejudices between participant countries into mutual tolerance.

By the project we want to bring youth of different backgrounds together, and teach to respect and value cultural variety by maintaining international dialogue. Young participants will have an opportunity to learn more about history of other countries, as well as to discover foreign traditions and customs. The project will also promote active citizenship among young newcomers to European countries, and nurture mutual respect and understanding between young people from all nations.

“We think it will be most interesting for the groups to meet and get to know each other - all coming from very different countries, with different background, different culture, different food, climate and many other things. We want to talk and learn about what we have in common and what we do not. We are all humans, alike in many ways, but also very different in many others. We should learn to respect and understand each other to make this world a better place.”

Olcay Atbin
Turkish group leader

YET - Your European Twins, is a non profit organization that promotes at local and international level, all the European programs expecially in these fields: Youth, Culture, Environment, Towntwinning, Media, Education.

YET promotes also:

• Local, National, European and International Voluntary Service
• Relationships between Twin Towns of Specchia in the touristic, economic, social and cultural field
• Promotion, valorisation and development of local territory

YET offers also:

• Counsulting to schools, associations,bodies and everyone wants to developand manage projects with europeanfunds
• Counsulting for fund raising and socialmarketing

The main office of YET is placed in Specchia, in the heel of Italy. YET is also a network made of youth parliaments, associations coming from Hungary (Szigetsentmiklos), Germany (Steinheim), Finland (Haukipudas), Poland (Busko-Zdrój).

Gloria Bandello
Italian group leader

The ANHSH is one of the largest umbrella organizations of Hungary, with 135 member organizations, representing the whole territory of Hungary, founded in 1992 for national for national representation of interests, for protection of interests and professional activities on a national level, as well as helping the cooperation between nonprofit organizations working on the same field of human services. Most of our member organizations are working on the following fields: Employment; Eldery Care; Familly, Child and Youth Care; Rehabilitation.

„We hope that this subculture of fantastics can be more known, understood and accepted all around Europe and that we’ll be able to create together an international society of Fantasy & RPG fans which can help those people to find each other and share the subject of their common interests, enjoy the fantasy world together in this intercultural melting pot. Thank you for the polish organisators for the fantastic programme of fantastics and the „Youth In Action” Programme „ to permit us of attaining our dreams.”

Annamária Apró

Hungarian group leader

Sudota is the small village in Sariai elderate, near Švenčionėliai city, Sudota and Sodotėlis lakes, Mėžia river and the most beautiful lithuanian river – Žeimena. Sudota Village Community is association of initiative people that has one common aim – villages, there is interesting and well to be.

There are 3 types of members:

• Local inhabitants of Sudota and surrounding area,
• People, that came from Sudota and surrounding area, like born there,
• Townie that spend there their time during holidays.

Main aims of Sudota village community:

• To make opportunities of adult education and interesting activities,
• To inform local people about various opportunities, like further education, new ways of agriculture, etc.
• To make interesting activities for aged local people,
• To involve townie and local people into country life ant to make opportunities to participate them on development of village,
• To make opportunities for various people to spend purposefully their time in Sudota village,
• To ensure sustainable development of Sariai elderate.

Development centre „Know yourself” is non – govermental organization and it has several interest groups under, like: such as female club “Līdumnieces”, youth initiative club “Blink”, club for seniors “Viršu laiks”, handicapped people and their friends’ group “Agape”, initiative club “Beautiful house made with our own hands”, the weavers’ group “Stalgene”, babies’ school “Stārķīši”, leather handling hobby group and other.

The aim is to foster the integration of sociaty as well as to motivate target groups actively participate in democratic process in Jaunsvirlauka Municipality and Jelgava district in Latvia. And also to organize activities and events that would promote standart of living for Jaunsvirlauka inhabitants. Organization also organize activities which promote helthy live style.