Barčev trg 14
Zagreb
Croatie
- Democracy and community development
The mission of HERMES is education for democratic citizenship, through developing and applying innovative (non-formal) educational programmes with a view to promoting non-violent communication methods such as structured and critical thinking, active listening and radical empathy as conflict resolution/prevention tools.
HERMES’s objectives are fighting discrimination, contributing to active participatory citizenship, promoting intercultural learning and facilitating the building of an inclusive pluralistic democratic society.
HERMES has so far done workshops and trainings for a number of other organizations in Croatia and internationally ("Rhetoric of Dicrimination" for Anne Frank House and Humanity in Action, for example). HERMES is currently working on implementing the Anne Frank House Free2Choose/Free2Create program in Croatia, the Model European Union Zagreb project, and bringing the Model International Criminal Court project to Croatia. HERMES's activities revolve around teaching debating skills as a means of empowerment for vulnerable social groups, especially young people. Free2Choose/Free2Create is a multimedia and debate workshop for secondary school students, dealing with human rights conflicts relevant for the lives of young people today. MEUZ is a simulation of policy-making on the European level aiming to reduce the so-called democratic deficit among youth.
HERMES can promote the work of the ALF Network in Croatia and among its partners, share best practices throughout the region and link citizens and other groups and organizations with similar challenges and interests within Croatia the way the ALF Network does across the Mediteranean.
HERMES believes that partners and support gained through the ALF Network would facilitate promoting its values and achieving its objectives. HERMES is committed to the value of intercultural dialogue and seeks to foster developing of inclusive communities.
By joining the Network, it would become part of a wider network of shared values and thus stronger in its capacities to promote them on a the local and regional level.