Euro-Mediterranean Center for Cross-Cultural Dialogue

Euro-Mediterranean Center for Cross-Cultural Dialgue has been informally estalished in the summer of 2007 with the support of the Euro-Med Youth Platform, after first two young Bulgarians joined the Euro-Med Youth Parliament in Berlin in June 2007. STRUCTURE: EMCCCD is guided by the decisions of the General Assembly, managed by a Board, following the program, designed by the International Bureau. The General Assembly is responsible for managing the organisation in areas such as the definition of EMCCCD annual work programme and the approval of the budget. It is composed of one elected representative from each national coordinator and meets once a year. Each national coordination organization regularly elects one board member who constitutes the link between the associated members in the country and the EMCCCD secretariat in Bulgaria. All organizational members have the right to participate in the General Assembly with one representative. The EMCCCD Bureau is composed of seven international members elected by the Board, which have the task of monitoring the daily managerial aspects of our network. Sources of funding: European Comission; Council of Europe; Open Spciety Fund; The World Bank; the Central European Initiative Modalities of action: training courses, summer schools, conferences, cultural exchanges and art events, workshops, seminars, individual and group volunteer programs; Euro- Mediterranean mobility) Main partners involved in the organization's projects/activities: Formally established in 2008 as the first youth organization with Euro-Mediterranean focus, registered in Bulgaria, now EMCCCD is an international youth network that unifies 73 collective (youth NGOs and non-formal groups) and 112 individual members from 43 European and Mediterranean countries.