ASSOCIATION U30+

A different kind of Mission… The ‘U30+’ Association’s mission is educating children, youths and adults in order for them to develop abilities and competencies which are key to adopting and practicing responsible, professional and social, individual and group behaviors, which can lead to personal development and the development of sustainable and inclusive communities. The ‘U30+’ Association provides activities – learning experiences in which children, youths and adults are consciously and actively involved and which value the personal and/or professional life experience of the organizers or of those who suggest activities, as well as that of the participants. The non-formal educational activities which are aimed at developing skills and key competencies, as well as teaching children, youths and adults responsible behaviors, are organized and developed by the ‘U30+’ Association as: courses, seminars, conferences, symposia, exhibitions, workshops, campaigns, documentation trips, contests, summer schools, within local, regional, national or international partnerships. The activities which are designed to develop individuals and sustainable competitive communities involve experts, specialists, cultural and scientific authorities from the country and abroad, as well as volunteers of the organization, external volunteers, in a joint effort to provide a different kind of education: the education for values and for developing together – individual, community and society, by encouraging participation and creativity. We envision to have all the activities described above as planned and implemented within different international and national projects and programs. A different kind of history… The ‘U30+’ Association emerged from the desire of the four founding members of the Association – Oana, Mihaela, Olimpia and Oana – to continue to work together, not as representatives of the partners in projects, but building together a common space, which will bring a ‘+’ of education to children, youths and adults and through them, to communities, thanks to a professional approach to the educational process. The education we believe in promotes traditional and national values, as well as European values, develops individuals, without developing individualities, but rather communities, relying on creativity, accountability and action. The need to found the ‘U30+’ Association arose simply: each of the four founding members has valuable experience in developing projects for children, youths and adults, accompanied by the capacity to set people and ideas into motion, and thereby, projects. And thanks to the frequent meetings where the discussions centered ‘on education’ from the perspective of the Professor (Oana), teacher and headmaster in secondary education (Mihaela), trainers of youths and adults (Oana, Mihaela, Oana), promoters and organizers of all kinds of non-formal activities (Oana, Mihaela, Olimpia, Oana), parents of younger or older children, or ‘the beneficiary of educational services’ of all kinds in society (so void of meaning in the increasingly standardized landscape and deadly for the creativity and autonomy of children, youths and teachers), we understood that we can offer an alternative to what school, family, community, society regards as suitable for providing A DIFFERENT KIND of EDUCATION.