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ADVIT stays for Association for Development, Voluntary Service and Information for Youth. ADVIT Moldova aims to promote cultural understanding and youth empowerment through opportunities of international exchange and voluntary work. As the recognized charity working in the area of youth development; ADVIT Moldova sends and receives young people, who want to broaden their horizons, develop themselves, make a difference, live and work with communities in Moldova and throughout the world up to 12 months. Through volunteering with ADVIT in Moldova, participants gain valuable work experience, learn a new language and develop important vocational, interpersonal and cultural skills, while in turn offering their skills, knowledge and enthusiasm for the benefit of the projects that host them.

ADVIT Moldova offers a unique, ethical volunteering experience. They know every one of their volunteers personally which means that they provide excellent support. Their volunteers live and work with local people and form an integral part of the community. Their volunteers are matched to the projects based on their preferences, skills and interests. To find out more, please contact: advit_ewb@yahoo.com or visit the ADVIT web site.

Below you can read some short impressions from EVS volunteers in Moldova and in our blog category ‘EVS experiences’, we will publish -in the next weeks - some ADVIT Moldova experience reports from EVS volunteers. So watch this blog regularly to be informed! Read the rest of this entry »

Roots & Routes is an international network for the promotion of cultural and social diversity in contemporary performing arts and media. An increasing number of initiatives empower urban youths by helping and coaching them to use their singing, dancing and media skills as an economic weapon and a tool for social integration and citizenship. At the European level a number of these initiatives are united in the Roots & Routes International network. Roots & Routes organises courses, master classes, performances and events, exchanges and mobility programmes for young dance, music and media talents in more than 10 European countries. Below you can read more about the project Roots & Routes Peer Coach Academy.

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creACTive: the world of creative and active young people
creACTive is a youth association from Macedonia for support of creativity and active citizenship of young people. Formed in 2007, creACTive has a main aim to assist the personal development of young people by providing them with a variety of non-formal education activities. creACTive currently has one Youth Centre in Kavadarci and two Youth Clubs – one in Skopje and another one in the village of Drenovo.

‘It was a big experience for me to work in creACTive. During the work I improved my language skills (English, Macedonian), I learnt how to organize events involving many people. Last but not least I learnt about work with young people, how to solve some problems and how to improve the work with them.’ – Adam Gazda from Czech Republic Read the rest of this entry »

AEGEE-Baki, European Students Forum Baku Public Union is a non-political, secular and non-commercial youth organization from Azerbaijan. The goal of AEGEE Baki is to promote, support and broaden up the international cooperation, democracy, human rights, tolerance, European integration and European standards on education. Considering Azerbaijan as a part of Europe, AEGEE-Baki is encouraging relations, cooperation and integration between young people of Azerbaijan and Europe. AEGEE is one of the biggest interdisciplinary student associations in Europe; it is represented by 15.000 students, active in 241 academic cities, in 40 countries all around Europe, which presents an amazing culture variety. Within the framework of the main fields of action, AEGEE-Baki members organize a wide variety of activities, including several international projects. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you interested by performing an EVS in Moldova? Then read thoroughly the information below about the Center EVS in Moldova, because they are looking for young people to participate in an exciting EVS experience in Moldova to learn more about different cultures and develop new skills.

 ’It’s the best decision to spend one year abroad and it was of course a right decision to stay in Moldova. I’m learning, seeing, experiencing every day something new and interesting. The mentality and hospitality of the people impresses me every time again.’ - Katrina Fee Schmitz-Roekerath Read the rest of this entry »

Full House is a youth filmmaking and international exchange project which has involved 45 young people from Hannover (Germany), Poznan (Poland) and Bristol (GB). The participants worked alongside professional filmmakers to create a film on the theme migration. The film tells about four youngsters who come together in a fictional hostel in Hannover, each tell their different story. The international premiere took place on 26 October in Poznan during the last filmmaking workshop. All participants of the project, funded by the Youth in Action Programme, were presented with a Youthpass certificate from the European Commission. Watch the movie trailer on the Full House website!

In this blog category we will soon give you every month detailed information about a particular project or organization. Do you want to make a suggestion for a ‘project in the picture’? Contact me (anita@noborders.eu)!

On October 2^nd the official premiere of the documentary film ‘Heart, keep beating’  took place in Copenhagen. The moving documentary is developed as a Youth Initiative project within the Youth in Action Programme and is a collaboration between young people from Denmark, Romania and Portugal.

‘Heart, keep beating’ tells about the lives of Claudia and Alex, two young Romanians who are HIV infected since childhood. In the film they tell about their dream of having a family and a completely normal life. The purpose of the project is to fight discrimination and stigmatization of HIV infected youth. Come and watch this interesting documentary