OFENSIVA TINERILOR

"Ofensiva Tinerilor” Association was founded in 2004 by a team of dedicated youth workers who wanted to offer young people accessible educational opportunities that would help them achieve their full potential. This remained our mission ever since. An essential element of our work is the European cooperation and exchange, as a mean to supporting persons belonging to different backgrounds to embrace cultural diversity, understand the common European values and develop responsibility in the community. Our trans-national initiatives are organised in cooperation with local and national institutions, with the support of the Erasmus+ Programs and also through pilot calls of the European Commission (AMICUS, EYV 2011, etc.). In the last 5 years we have: - sent more than 60 EVS volunteers in stages in Europe, Asia and Africa, - hosted more than 300 EVS volunteers - hosted more than 250 youth workers and young people who or trained or exchanged experience in Romania - sent more than 150 youngsters to participate in mobility projects Since 2014 we are member of the European Peer Training Organisation, sharing a common vision: “People enjoy learning from each other how to embrace their differences and realise their unique potential”. In the spirit of this vision, we have implemented several peer-education programmes on various topics like: diversity and anti-discrimination, religious diversity, gender equality, inner-diversity. Also, together with partners from five Balkan countries we have developed the “Peers for Inclusion” training methodology, aimed at creating the attitudes and offering the tools that youth workers need to become more inclusive in their work towards persons with disabilities. At local level, since 2014 we have more than 600 beneficiaries of these programmes, including young people, youth workers and teachers. All official documents of the organisation are uploaded into the ECAS account of the association and are updated with the latest version.