Passeio "Este livro que vos deixo" Lote 18 R/C Esq.
Campus de Gambelas, Pavilhão A5
8000-536 Faro
Portugal
- Democracy and community development
- Gender
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Research
- Youth and education
ECOS - Cooperativa de Educação Cooperação e Desenvolvimento, CRL, have has it main goal of action the promotion of non-formal education for social inclusion. Through our activities, we try to contribute to the development of a more human, sustainable, fair, inclusive, participative, democratic, equitable, solidaire, cooperative, dialogical, diverse and integrated society.
Our main areas of Intervention are:
- Creation of spaces for structured dialogue, cooperation and collective construction among different actors, such as, social, business and institutional actors;
- Promotion, design, implementation and evaluation of playful, educational, social, cultural and sustainable development projects, in formal and non-formal spaces, through non-formal education, always in a way that it complements formal education and contributes to life long learning;
- Development of organizations capacity to do a more efficient management of their resources and projects through training and new technologies of information and communication;
- Monitoring, support, assessment and consultancy to individuals, organizations, institutions and respective educational programmes and social intervention projects;
- Promotion, recognition and validation of non-formal education and other alternative pedagogical methodologies that contribute to social transformation.
1. DYPALL - Developing Youth Participation at Local Level: https://www.facebook.com/groups/405769159433681/?fref=ts;
2. ALGARVE 2020 “A youth proposal” https://www.facebook.com/Algarve2020?fref=ts
3. AYECO - Africa-Europe Youth Cooperation Online Resource Centre
4. Activating Youthhttps://www.facebook.com/activatingyouthfaro
5. AGORA: Bringing Quality and Innovation into Youth participationhttps://www.facebook.com/youthparticipationinagora?fref=ts
6. Talk About it
7. Youth Takes the Floorhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/youthtakesthefloorfaro/?fref=tshttp://y…
ECOS has a significant experience in networking and gathering different stakeholders in participatory-based projects promoting the development of civil society, the cooperation and dialogue.
We believe that we can contribute with our expertise for the network development in Portugal. We also believe that working in the south of Portugal, with the regional network of municipalities and youth organisations we will be able to bring new partners and new cooperation possibilities for this network. Our trainers, educators and project managers can also support the development of new projects within the network. We also expect to make this network closer to the current young people needs and priorities, and to develop tools to cooperate with others to approach this common challenges.
ECOS is a pioneer in enhancing, promoting and developing Euromed cooperation in the south region of Portugal. Our motivation is based on knowledge, experiences and feelings, which gives us a certainty that due to the historical background of the region we should promote more cooperation and opportunities for young people and other atores to cooperation within the Mediterranean region. Some of projects already contain cooperation with Arab and Mediterranean partners nevertheless we would like to enhance and to construct new cooperation opportunities.
Some of our team members have worked on the Euromed region providing training and workshops. We believe that within Anna Lindh Foundation Network we will not be only able to create new projects and partnerships but to also open new possibilities to cooperate and to support the development of the region.