FINLAND: Femina RY

aims to achieve more sustainable and fair society by develop the professional, business, and leadership potential ofwomen through mentoring, networking, skill-building, advocacy and assistance to the people in need and advancing education toall. We run a workshops, trainings, seminars and information days, teaching people practical skills, and important aspects ofwomen and vulnerable people socialization & integration in society. we tackle gender-based violence and promote human rightsand legal system in Finland, accounting matters and providing information to assist them in setting up their life’s. We empowerwomen to be more active in politics and have a positive impact on local level by training entrepreneurship skills. For children andyouth we provide vocational education, like drama and music lessons, youth camps and debates etc. Expertise of our Finnish partner in promoting SDGs and empowerment of civil society and other stake holders confirmed by our positive experience inprevious projects and experts engaged as in cultural cooperation, youth and gender equality empowerment, support ofsustainable development. Partner has an experience working with minorities and organisations who supports civil societydevelopment at local level. Additionally to official partner we agreed to engage also more experience co-partners Fimigrant RY, who is going support Femina RY in all activities and project implementation.

DENMARK: Crossing Borders (CB)

is a non-profit, non-partisan civil society organisation. The vision of CB is a world in peace with itself inwhich diversity is celebrated. The mission is to create dialogue space toward such a world and to build the capacity of youth,media workers and educators to realise the above vision. The overall goal is to enable people with different backgrounds to learnto live together on equal terms. Cuurently CB is running a Sustainable development programm “Anchoring a Civil Society modeltoward localising the SDGs in Ghana, Uganda, and Zambia”, as main aim of the project is to ensure Civil Society organizationscan share best practices around localizing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The team of CB is very experienced, diverseand motivated. Knowledge in UN SDGs, professional experience and active position in Danish civil society and huge capacity.

SWEDEN: Burgårdens Gymnasium  

it’s a upper secondary school in Göteborg with mainly vocational training for young people, aged 16-19, with around 1000 students. Students can choose between for instance programs that educate nursery attendants, security, fashion design, hairdressers, make-up artists or animal keepers. We have an introduction program for young immigrants where they can work with the aim of entering a vocational training program within 2 years´ time. There is also the option of combining theoretical studies with internship two days every week as an apprentice. About 60% of the students have an immigrant background. Some have arrived in Sweden with their parents as refugees, others were born in Sweden. Many students have special difficulties in learning (anxiety disorder, attention deficit, autism, dyslexia or dyscalculia). The teachers therefore work in teams where they develop new training methods that better fit this group of students than traditional education.

ESTONIA: Sillamäe Lastekaitse Ühing / Sillamäe Society for Child Welfare

During these years SSCW has been working actively towards creating a child and youth friendly environment in our society. Each year we have broadened the reach of our activities to initiate broad based and society wide noticeable initiatives/programmes (integration, culture, education, youth work, development cooperation, human & child rights, entrepreneurship, volunteer work, migrants adaptation, family issues). SSCW has conducted more than 250 projects not only on the country level, but lately on an international level including with partners across Europe and elsewhere.

Three decades ago, it started as a regional level organization and has become an recognized organisation which is capable of successfully carrying out projects on local, national and International level. SSCW is a member of various international networks/organisations (EAPN, ALF, AMATEO, Roundtable for Development cooperation etc), also belongs to governmental ECDC joint committee and has a consultative status at UN ECOSOC council.

LATVIA: Culture and Education Studio NGO Talent City

started its activities in 2011. Our activities are focused on two main fields – culture and adult non-formal education. We organize courses in crafts, languages, marketing skills and trainings for social workers. During the last years about 300 people have attended our courses. There are 4 staff trainers and about 20 free-lance course trainers. We are seriously addressing the needs of our trainers and trainees and trying to raise their qualifications and international experiences in various ways. The organization has a successful experience in international partnership projects – Grundtvig partnership “LIME – Learning on Immigrant Education” project (2011-2013) and Nordplus Adult development project “Create to Integrate” (2011-2012) about innovative integration methods and tools for adult immigrants and other target groups.

LITHUANIA: Youth centre Babilonas is an NGO

having more than 25 years of experience in youth work, intercultural youth exchanges, youthcamps, sustainable development, trainings for teachers, youth workers and other professionals. It is also highly experienced inorganizing seminars, international conferences and other events. More than 14 thousand of young people have participated inour different programs. Organisation main context is non-formal social-emotional education, citizenship, interculturalcommunication, promotion of sustainability and cooperation, stereotypes, differences, tolerance, creative-artistic work, learningby doing, etc. Besides its longstanding engagement in youth & adults’ education, we fully support environmental education andpromotion of sustainable lifestyle. Babilonas has been also working with adults, including the disadvantaged people. Partnershipin EVS and Youth Exchange Network “Creative Cooperation” by sending and hosting organization for youth EVS; Partnership inGrundtvig, Erasmus+ projects.