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The Student Youth Council from Georgia has been established in 2001 by four student organizations, promoting establishment of high education standards in Ozurgeti (Guria region, West Georgia). The*Student-Youth Council* is a public union, which aims at solving the problems that youth and students are facing by protecting their rights, promoting knowledge and skills, filling informational gap, realizing youth’s intellectual, creative, cultural and sport potentials. Nowadays the organization works in the following programmes:

• Youth integration and assistance for their active involvement in public life;
• Assistance to promote and develop volunteering;
• Assistance to establish and develop democratic govern/self-govern.

*Student-Youth Council* is also involved in the “Youth in Action” programme. They already took part in 25 different kind of activities such as 5 “Youth Exchanges”, where the organisation was co-organizer sending organization and the co-organizer host organization of two projects as well as. Since 2008 *Student-Youth Council* is also involved in EVS projects. So far 20 EVS volunteers worked in their organization and they also send15 Georgian volunteers to Poland, Greece, Czech Republic, Italy, Hungary and Romania.

Are you curious to their realized work? Watch all their videos on the Student Youth Council YouTube channel.

Would you like to share your extraordinary day-to-day work with citizens around Europe? Join the European Year of Volunteering 2011 (EYV) celebrations. Share your achievements, challenges and enriching experiences. Two organisations working with volunteers will be selected in each European country. A member of the EYV team will visit you and produce films, radio chronicles and written articles about your amazing work. This media products will be promoted among television channels, radio stations, and press and Internet groups during the year. For more detailed information about the selection process and the application deadlines, please visit the 2011 EYV website.

“Armenian progressive youth’’ NGO is a voluntary social union based on the common interests of individuals. The principles of organization’s activity are legality, voluntary, equality of rights, self-governing, publicity. The objectives of organization are:

• To inform youth about international conferences, seminars, educational perspectives and other events.
• To organize scientific meetings, round-tables, seminars and lectures on various issues.
• To implement environmental projects in Armenia.
• To promote and agitate sport and healthy life.
• To promote the development of blogosphere in Armenia.
• To cooperate with other youth NGO-s.
• To promote the creation and development of relationships between students and the  economic sector.
• To write and publish educational materials and publications.
• To organize and implement youth exchanges and educational programs.

APY and EVS
APY takes much attention to EVS project as they think that EVS is the best way of mutual cooperation and understanding. EVS provides a unique opportunity for young people to travel to different countries, to work as a volunteer, to receive new skills and knowledge. Now APY implements conculting activity and spread information about various EVS projects to Armenian youth.

Are you interested in some EVS experiences abroad from Armenian youngsters? In our blog category EVS experiences you can read 2 experience reports from Armenian EVS volunteers Arman and Tsoghik in Romania.

Youth Association Droni (YAD) from Georgia is a non-governmental organization with the mission to promote the establishment of a modern, healthy, educated and perfect society. The organisation aims are to support the young people’s physical, spiritual and educational development and to develop educational initiatives in the field of civil society, conflict resolution, human rights and peace-building, to promote intercultural relations in Georgian society of Youth. YAD is mostly focusing its activities to the Caucasian region and cooperates with different NGO’s in Europe.

Activities
YAD has been providing activities on: human rights education, gender issues, conflict prevention and peace-building, active citizenship and youth participation. For example YAD was actively involved in “All Different, All Equal” European Youth Campaign for Diversity, Human Rights and Participation in Georgia.

Read the rest of this post about the YAD volunteers blog and its YouTube channel.

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Volunteer. Meet new people. Connect to the community.

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 »

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)!