Euro-Med EVE Belgium

Association Euro-Méditerranéenne des Echanges, Volontariats, Evénements (Euro-Med Eve Belgique): Euro-Med EVE Belgium is a non-governmental organization founded in Belgium, which works mainly with young people, youth workers, trainers and volunteers. We promote youth exchanges, mobility and intercultural learning at European and international levels. Euro-Med EVE Belgium concept regarding different ways of LIVING OUR POSSIBILITIES increasing the value of diversity respecting of our personal ambitions. The NGO invests in the education, personal deployment of youth & professionals and pay attention to their voices, as an essential source of new ideas, creativity and artistic expression. Over national boundaries and stereotypes, the Belgian organization wants to promote interculturality, key value of the work. Euro-Med EVE Belgium is a non-governmental Association which deals with: • Educational activities: Education projects in schools and on an extra-schools basis throughout a non-formal education method focused on active citizenship, European conscience, against racism and xenophobia, human rights principles, training for teachers and trainers; • Vocational education training and education for teacher, trainers, and mentors in the field of child development education, health care services for disabled people, accounting, trade, art, and design, IT, natural protection and agriculture and etc. • Cultural events: Conferences, seminars, forums, concerts, art exhibitions; • Intercultural activities: Programmes and projects of youth mobility, education on international topics, promotion of different cultures in Belgium and abroad, promotion of ERASMUS+ Programme. The mission of education activities, consist of providing non-formal education opportunities for young people involving as many youth as possible and trying always to involve others that have never participated before. The main aim of the organization is to help youngsters develop their transversal competences (life skills) by using non-formal learning tools. Euromed EVE Belgium tries to educate youngsters to a peaceful cohabitation with people coming from different cultures, countries and social conditions by giving them the opportunity to confront themselves with others in an intercultural environment, which stimulates the: • Employment of youth and empowering entrepreneurship • Inclusion of disabled groups in the local community • Raising the media literacy and IT skills among youth and adults • Development of a social conscience. OUR MISSION is: • To provide challenging intercultural learning experiences for young people. • To promote their social and personal development through international volunteer programmes • To promote intercultural understanding, equality of opportunity, tolerance and peace among people in the world • To promote digital and IT education and training for learners and staff OUR OBJECTIVES are to: • Support and create a platform for civil society; • Encourage young people to get involved in an active social life, • Make volunteering and healthy living more popular among the younger generation, • Provide young people with skills such as: initiative, involvement and cooperation, respect for cultural differences, tolerance, democracy, equity, social dialogue, digital and IT education, etc. • Promote the inclusion of marginalized groups in all social processes and activities; • Contribute to the construction of a cultural bridge between Belgian youth and Euro-Mediterranean youth for exchange of knowledge, experiences and access to other cultures.