Federación de Asociaciones Juveniles de Oviedo

The Federation of Youth Associations of Oviedo or Conseyu de la Moceda de Oviedo (hereinafter CMU) is a local nonprofit entity that includes both: youth associations and youth sections of entities in the municipality of Oviedo (Asturias). Our mission is to promote youth participation, providing services and training, and acting as an interlocutor between youth problems and public bodies. For that we: - Promote associations and youth participation in political, social, economic and cultural development. - Make known the reality of youth and their specific problems. - Provide services that support the Youth Associations. - Defend the development and dissemination of Asturian culture, language and identity. - Represent its members in the organizations and activities in which it participates, and serve as an interlocutor between the institutions and the youth of the municipality. What do we do?: - We provide advice and training for associations, volunteering programs and European programs. - We manage a Resource Center for young people and local entities. - We investigate and prepare educational material on participation, associativity and other issues related to youth. - We organize or coordinate different cultural, politics or free time activities among others; promoted by CMU member organizations and other related entities. Different entities participate in the CMU, so the issues we work on are varied: leisure and free time, gender and equality or youth between others.