29/3 Ignacego Paderewskiego
25-017 Kielce
Poland
Kielce
Poland
- Democracy and community development
The mission of the foundation is to think globally and act locally.
The objectives of the Foundation are:
1. To activate and support local and regional initiatives and realize projects for the benefit of local communities.
2. To promote social economy, innovation and entrepreneurship.
3. To initiate and support innovative solutions and social and civic activism.
4. To develop and strengthen the development of civil society.
5. To support non-governmental organizations by giving legal, financial, marketing advice and direct support in the realization of projects.
6. To establish local and international partnerships.
7. To set up strong transnational partnership in order to realize international projects to support innovation and development.
8. To support regional development.
9. To promote tolerance and open-mindedness.
10. To initiate international projects locally with a lot of partners from home and abroad.
11. To facilitate and support the action of civil society in the world.
12. To enhance capacity of organization and its international character.
13. To initiate projects which contribute to sharing values and idea of living together peacefully in cosmopolitan world.
14. To enhance initiatives in order to encourage human and social dialogue in different fields.
The Foundation realizes projects within European Social Fund, Youth in Action Programme, Europe for Citizens and local grants.
In 2010 The Foundation started to realize Projects within Human Capital but later on specialized in transnational projects which brought more benefits and added value to the general development of the Foundation.
Now the Foundation is realizing project with England concerning vocational learning.
The Foundation applied for a big international project with 12 countries involved whose aim is to promote tolerance and intercultural dialogue (Europe for Citizens Programme).
The Foundation is now very focused on activities engaging foreign partners and promoting intercultural and multireligious dialogue.
CEL Foundation is ready to share experience in the field of international projects on different topics, exchange contacts and promote ALF. CEL Foundation would like to work actively in the field of transnational cooperation and initiate project here in Kielce, the city with a difficult and shameful history connected with the Jewish pogrom.
The purpose of the CEL FOUNDATION is to promote intercultural dialogue through the exchange of cultural, intellectual, and social values. In addition, the goal of the Foundation is to promote knowledge and mutual respect between representatives of the Mediterranean culture and countries of EU. The Foundation would like to encourage local citizens to exchange dialogue between heritage of the Mediterranean countries and the countries of the EU. The problem in Kielce is that projects based on such theme are rare and not so well promoted. CEL Foundation is very open for initiatives realized within the ALF Network and ready to organize some activities in Kielce.
The Foundation would contribute to a wider promotion of ALF and the activities it initiates, its potential and role in enhancing mutual understanding and multicultural dialogue, active citizenship and participation. CEL Foundation plans to realise international projects in order to promote transnational activities and benefits stemming from such cooperation.
CEL Foundation is planning to organize a big multireligious and multicultural conference in Kielce, the city where the last Jewish Pogrom took place. Its aim is to prove that many generations passed and the new generation, present inhabitants of the city are open minded and tolerant. The aim of CEL FOUNDATION is to initiate international events leading to enhancing dialogue between cultures and religions. The Foundation cooperates locally with Association of Jan Karski from Kielce and aims to initiate multireligious and multicultural events promoting tolerance and mutual understanding. The previous project CEL Foundation applied for was the project in the partnership with Museum of Dialogue of Cultures.
CEL Foundation is planning to create a kind of Transnational Center for Mutual Understanding whose aim is to promote international projects and encourage institutions and NGOs to think about projects with countries from outside EU. Thanks to such attitude we would like to break a stereotype that international projects are restricted only to EU Member States.