Autriche Array

Embracing Diversity and Inclusion

This project featured a youth exchange involving 42 participants from eight countries. They convened in Vienna to delve into diversity and inclusion issues, sharing insights and perspectives. The program was tailored to accommodate participants' needs, with three main phases: initial preparation, exchange mobility, and follow-up activities. Tangible results included follow-up plans on relevant topics and multimedia resources on concepts like tokenism. However, the project's primary impact was intangible, as participants acquired practical, emotional, and theoretical competences related to diversity.

Embracing Diversity | EMOTiC

EMOTIC Call: (OPEN) Training Course: Young Peacebuilders - Baitz/Berlin, Germany

This call is particularly for the Training Course "Young Peacebuilders – Training for multipliers in communal conflict transformation" that will be implemented in Baitz/Berlin, GERMANY from 25.02.2023 (arrival day) to 05.03 2023 (departure day). This training brings together 28 youths from Austria, Germany, Romania, Italy, Bulgaria, Netherlands, and Greece. The main aim is to understand the complexity of various conflicts and the reasons why the resolution of conflicts and crises both between and within communities entails many types of challenges.

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Publication

Education

Youth

EMYS - Engaging Marginalised Youth for Sustainability Toolkit

This Sustainability Toolkit includes advocacy and lobbying training activities, facilitation techniques for idea generation and design, non-formal education (NFE) techniques for increasing motivation and engagement, basic project management skills, event management and campaigning skills, fundraising and proposal writing. The toolkit...

European Multidisciplinary Organization for Training and international Consulting

National Network

Autriche

Address

Balderichgasse 3/25
1170 Vienna
Autriche

Telephone

+436763022264

E-Mail

emotic.org@gmail.com

Website

https://www.emotic.org/

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Year of Establishment

2020

Fields of Activity

Democracy and community development
Environment/Sustainable development
Gender
Human rights
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
International/Cultural relations
Media
Research
Youth and education

General Information

The European Multidisciplinary Organization for Training and international Consulting (EMOTiC) is a youth-led organisation with the aim of strengthening the abilities of youth (18-30years) on issues related to the development of their lives, careers and communities. Through capacity building, we empower youth with the necessary competences (skills, knowledge, attitudes) and with innovative, adaptive, and results-based tools to facilitate their engagement in shaping their community and tackling social issues constructively to achieve a positive impact on the grassroots level and build more inclusive, livable and healthy societies. Through our various activities, we aim to enhance youth as active members and multipliers of change and transformation through the promotion of inclusion, equality, and diversity values as well as sustainability. These values and goals are reinforced by transnational synergies and partnerships among youth to build more resilient societies based on mutual trust, respect, solidarity, and intercultural understanding.

Mission and Objectives

The goal is to build future generations of youth who have advanced professional and personal capacities and competences and are able to develop their local communities. We aim to achieve this goal through non-formal education by equipping youth with the core knowledge and helping them to develop skills and improve their civic attitudes. This is complemented by critical thinking and analyzing capacities; endorsing multidimensional perspectives; fostering the role of youth in democratic participation and dialogue, and promoting a nuanced understanding of international development and social engagement. As such, we support and contribute to achieving various global youth policy recommendations emphasized in the (I) UN Youth Resolutions 2250 (2015), 2419 (2018), 2535 (2020), (II) European Union Youth Strategy for 2019-2027, (III) United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.

Main Projects / Activities

We are active in the areas of Peace Education, Environmental Education, Digital Education, and Civic Education.

We organise training courses, workshops, and youth exchanges. We are also planning to organise conferences soon once the pandemic situation improved and allows.

Currently, we are running 5 projects as the main coordinator and we are a partner in several projects with many other youth NGOs.
Two of our ongoing projects focus on Social Peacebuilding as a tool to enhance youth civic participation and one project focuses on policymaking and structured dialogue to enhance youth democratic participation. In addition, we have a project on environment and climate change and another one on the utilisation of board games as an alternative tool for youth inclusion.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

The team of EMOTiC has extensive previous working in the MENA region through the organisation of several activities for youth from the region. Thanks to the previous experiences and our network of youth and youth organisations in the region, we can facilitate cooperation and partnership opportunties and help reach out to groups that are not reached through conventional means.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We align our goals with the objectives from ALF Network and we strongly believe that being part of ALF Network will provide us with a great opportunity to not only connect with other partners that are active in the field but also to learn from each other and support the work of other partners and join forces.

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Contact (1) Full Name

Mohamed Sakr

Job Title

Project Manager

Head of the organisation

Mohamed Sakr

European Wilderness Society

National Network

Autriche

Address

Dechant Franz Fuchs Str, 5 Tamsweg 5580 AUSTRIA
c/o LuminaConsult 6th floor Square de Meeüs 35 1000 Brussels Belgium
5580 Tamsweg
Autriche

Telephone

+43 6474 27029

E-Mail

max.rossberg@wilderness-society.org

E-Mail (2)

iryna.shchoka@wilderness-society.org

Mobile Phone

+43 676 92 71 543

Mobile Phone (other)

+ 38 050 6654943

Website

http://www.wilderness-society.org

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Year of Establishment

2013

Fields of Activity

Arts
Environment/Sustainable development
Others
Research
Youth and education

General Information

The European Wilderness Society is the only Pan-European, wilderness and environmental advocacy organisation whose mission is to identify, designate, manage and promote European wilderness. We are a diverse team of professional nature conservationists dedicated to wilderness in Europe. The European Wilderness Society maintains focal points in Spain, France, Belgium, Austria, Slovakia, Latvia, Germany, Ukraine and Hungary. However, the organisation’s headquarter is in Tamsweg, Austria with an additional office in Brussels. At EWS we believe in reaching such a harmony through introducing wilderness to people in Europe and increase the public support for preserving the last great places of true nature. Our team has more then 16 years work expirience with different organisations. Budgetary resources: 220.000 euro Sources of funding; Erasmus+, EU commission, Ministry of agriculture, forestry, environment and water management of Austria, donations. Projects:  Developed and launched the European Wilderness Quality Standard and Audit System (EWQA), certified 20 national parks which helps support improvement in the management of wilderness.  Increasing cooperation with educational institutions in order to improve knowledge about Europe’s natural habitats and wildlife with a special focus on large carnivores.  Launched various online communication tools.  Organized two European Wilderness Academy Days in 2014 and 2015.  Implementing a project called Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices.  Working to protect Europe’s last wild rivers and their watersheds.  Distribution of the European Wilderness Journal.  Development of the wild art program . Its idea is bringing artists into wilderness and having them capture wilderness with their tools. Partners:  Hnuty Duha-Friends of the Earth, Czech Republic  Mountain Wilderness, France  National nature park Zacharovanyy kray, Ukraine  Lesoochranárske zoskupenie VLK, Slovakia  CEEWeb, Hungary  University of Leeds  University of Klagenfurt  Carpatica  Others

Mission and Objectives

 Established the European Wilderness Quality Standard and Audit System (EWQA) as Europe´s premiere wilderness standard and thus far have certified 20 wilderness’.
 Identify and protect wilderness in Europe by employing legislative and financial tools.
 Initiate the Pan-European Green corridor network
Hold an annual large carnivore conference in different parts of Europe.
 Hold annually the Wilderness Academy Days in a different location each year.
 Develop a watershed wilderness criteria system to be implemented across Europe, working jointly with Europe’s leading NGOs.
 Lobby at the European parliament level for a stronger focus on wilderness protection as a conservation management solution.
 Educate school children on the value of wilderness for Europe.
 Bring together the fine arts and wilderness to promote conservation.
 Develop a communication strategy to support the return of large carnivores across Europe.

Main Projects / Activities

We are following such main EU initiatives, policies as
implementation:
a) of the 2 nature (Birds and Habitat) directives
b) of the Water Framework and Floods Directives
c)and improving the EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy
REFIT of Natura 2000
Our main project activities are:
1. Auditing of wilderness using EWQA from the Mediterranean to the Arctic circle, from the Atlantic coast to the Ural Mountains.
2. Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices:
a) Knowledge sharing and preparation
b) Preparation of publications
c) Dissamination of education materials
d) Research assesment
e) Studying and innovationg curricula
f) Preparation and implementation of cluster
3. Assist in the protection of Europe’s last wilderness.
4. EWS supports two scholarships for postgraduate MSc in Management of Protected Areas at theUniversity of Klagenfurt.
5. Publish regular research results, management guidelines, and case studies.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

EWS has a comprehensive experience in research, eduction, marketing and goverment activities. We are prepared to share and exchange our konwledege in the fields of environment protection, sustainable development and tourism, innovative communication tools and networking, education of children and adults, marketing with members of ALF in Austria as well as in Euro-Mediterranean region.

EWS brings all stakeholders of Europe’s wilderness together. It employs a comprehensive approach to meet the complex ecological and social needs of Europe's protected areas. We have experience in wilderness management training. Since, the European Parliament adopted its special report on wilderness on February 3, 2009, the organisation has focused on 3 main topics:
1. To increase the knowledge and understanding of wilderness and its role in protected areas for delivering social and economic benefits. In addition, the organization has focused on educating adults in order to increase awareness of the public about what protected areas can bring to them personally.
2. Improve management effectiveness of protected areas through providing expertise and a third party management audit to administration.
3. Improve the legal framework for protected areas with special attention on wildlife and wilderness attributes

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

Since EWS has the same objectives as ALF (promoting knowledge, mutual respect and exchange between regions, bridge the gaps in perceptions, as well as promote diversity and coexistence, promote intercultural competences amongst Europeans and Asians, empowering the Euro-Med organisations to work on intercultural dialogue through exchanges and collaborations in the region, applying a policy of environmental and social responsibility) and we work in the same fields, such as environment and sustainable development as well as tourism, education, art which can improve and broaden in particular in the Mediterranean. In order to find appropriate partners and support, the organization has decided to join ALF.
We are ready to exchange knowledge and experience in the above mentioned fields with organizations in the Euro-Mediterranean region, establish new partnerships.
An important activity which can be implemented with the support of ALF is facilitation of cooperation with Mediterranean education and civil society organizations and particularly support of conduction of European Wilderness Academy Days in Turkey in 2016.

Contact (1) Full Name

Max A. E. Rossberg

Job Title

Chairman

Head of the organisation

Max A. E. Rossberg

Contact (2) Full Name

Iryna Shchoka

Job Title (2)

International Fundraising Manager

Eurozine - Gesellschaft zur Vernetzung von Kulturmedien mbH

National Network

Autriche

Address

Duerergasse 14-16
1020 Vienna
Autriche

Telephone

+43 1 334 29 80

Fax

+43 1 334 29 80 20

E-Mail

p.stepan@eurozine.com

E-Mail (2)

v.leiner@eurozine.com

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Year of Establishment

1998

Fields of Activity

Arts
Democracy and community development
Environment/Sustainable development
Gender
Human rights
International/Cultural relations
Media
Others
Religion
Youth and education

General Information

Europe's leading cultural magazines at your fingertips Eurozine is a network of European cultural journals, linking up more than 80 partner journals and just as many associated magazines and institutions from nearly all European countries. Eurozine is also a netmagazine which publishes outstanding articles from its partner journals with additional translations into one of the major European languages. The most important articles on European culture and politics By providing a Europe-wide overview of current themes and discussions, Eurozine offers a rich source of information for an international readership and facilitates communication and exchange between the journals themselves. By presenting the best articles from its partners and their countries, as well as original texts on the most pressing issues of our times, Eurozine opens up a new space for transnational debate. Eurozine is a non-profit institution, with an editorial office based in Vienna. The Editorial Board, composed of the editors of four European cultural journals, and the Advisory Board play an important role in guiding and advising the Eurozine editors.

Mission and Objectives

The main objectives of Eurozine are:
- to contribute to the creation of a common transnational European public sphere, to inform a European readership of current debates of importance and serve as a source of information for professionals such as authors, journalists, literary critics and publishers, as well as an interested general readership.
- to enhance cross-border dissemination of the best works from the European cultural and literary scene and to promote authors and their work outside their immediate language area.
- to represent and promote the "endangered species" of the cultural journal on a European level and to encourage multilingual, intercultural dialogue and exchange in a transnational environment.

Main Projects / Activities

Netmagazine
Publication of around 300 essay-length texts and translations on diverse topics of European relevance in the netmagazine www.eurozine.com and exchange of numerous articles among partner journals; publication of hundreds of tables of contents and other current information on partner journals; dissemination of texts and information
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Translation programme
Commissioning and publication of translations into English, German or French of articles from partner journals; exchange of articles via these intermediary translations; accessibility to texts for general audience on www.eurozine.com
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Focal Points
Compilation of articles on currently relevant and widely debated topics in www.eurozine.com: in-depth analysis, initiation of debate, information about different perspectives across Europe. "Russia in Global Dialouge", "Ukraine in Global Dialouge" and "Law and Border" are three 2014 newly introduced focal points which will be maintained over the years to come. "Hungary", The EU: broken or just broke?", "The ends of democracy" and "The public sphere in the making" are focal points from previous years that have been kept up to date through the addition of new articles. Topics for the focal points for 2015 and 2016 will reflect the current political, social, cultural and intellectual debate.
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Editorial Board meetings
Eurozine Editorial Board (representatives from partner journals: Mika Buljevic, Booksa, HR; Göran Dahlberg, Glänta, SE; Marc-Olivier Padis, Esprit, FR; Elke Rauth, dérive, AT) meets to discuss editorial strategy, topics, authors, Focal Points; plan the annual Network Meeting; select new partner journals; evaluate implementation of work programme
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European Meeting of Cultural Journals
At the anual networkmeeting over a hundret editors in chief, intellectuals and authors meet to network, discuss common projects and participate at a conference featuring the main topic of the respective year. The last meeting took place in Conversano from 2 to 6 October 2014 in Conversano, Italy.
The conference etiteled "Law and Border – House Search in Fortress Europe" was hosted by Lettera internationale (IT) and the Fondazione Guiseppe di Vagno. The focal point an the programme can be found at http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/lawborder.html
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Eurozine Review
Publication of a review of current issues of partner journals in 34 European countries covering 32 language areas; highlighting of topics and authors covered by partner journals; promotion of partner journals, network activities; directly sent to around 20 000 email addresses incl. journalists, multipliers; also published in www.eurozine.com/journals_reviews.html
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Eurozine Newsletter
Publication of a monthly newsletter highlighting current projects, publishing foci, articles published; promotion of activities; directly sent to around 20 000 email addresses incl. journalists, multipliers

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

Eurozine itself is a Network consisting of 80 journals and associated publications from 34 different countries publishing in 32 different language areas. Therefore we link up cultural journals from all over Europe and we are not nationally organised.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

Eurozine contributes a genre of publications devoted to essays and litterary texts on society, culture, politics and democracy to the ALF network. Although we are not a national network, the aims and goals of our two organisations seem to show many paralles so that a membership of Eurozine in the ALF network will me mutually benefical.

Contact (1) Full Name

Paul Stepan

Job Title

Managing Director

Head of the organisation

Paul Stepan

Eurozine article: The end of Tunisia’s spring?

On 20th June Eurozine published the article "The end of Tunisia's spring? Kais Saied's power grab in Tunisia did not take place in a vacuum. A combination of constitutional dysfunction, a self-serving party system and festering social tensions had left the country at breaking point. Now the man many hailed as a saviour threatens the achievements of the democratic revolution of 2011".

Eurozine is network of European cultural journals, linking up more than 100 partner journals and associated magazines and institutions from nearly all European countries.

Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs - Task Force "Dialogue of Cultures"

National Network

Autriche

Address

Minoritenplatz 8
Vienna
Autriche

Telephone

+43 (0) 50 11 50-3376

E-Mail

aloisia.woergetter@bmeia.gv.at

E-Mail (2)

dialog@bmeia.gv.at

E-Mail (3)

Katharina.SCHREIBER@bmeia.gv.at

Website

http://www.bmeia.gv.at/en/european-foreign-policy/international-cultural-policy…

Organisation Type

Local/Regional Authority

Year of Establishment

2007

Fields of Activity

International/Cultural relations

General Information

In order to strengthen intercultural and interreligious dialogue both within and beyond Austria, the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs founded the Task Force “Dialogue of Cultures” in July 2007.”

Mission and Objectives

Main Projects / Activities

Contact (1) Full Name

Mag. Aloisia Wörgetter

Job Title

Head of Task Force "Dialogue of Cultures"

Head of the organisation

Mag. Aloisia Wörgetter

Föderation für Weltfrieden - Universal Peace Federation in Austria

National Network

Autriche

Address

Seidengasse 28/4
A 1070 Vienna
Vienna
Autriche

Telephone

+43 650 2588846

Telephone (other)

+43 699 11725599

E-Mail

info@weltfriede.at

E-Mail (2)

phaider@chello.at

Mobile Phone

+43 650 2588846

Website

http://www.weltfriede.at

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Year of Establishment

2005

Fields of Activity

International/Cultural relations

General Information

Registered NGO; Volunteers 10000 - 20000 Euro Membership fees, Donations, Grants by the city of Vienna. Network of Ambassadors for Peace.

Mission and Objectives

The Universal Peace Federation (UPF) is a global network of individuals and organizations dedicated to building a world of peace in which everyone can live in freedom, harmony, cooperation, and prosperity. Peace is not simply the absence of war or a term that applies only to the relationships among nations. Peace is an essential quality that should characterize all relationships.
UPF encourages all religions to dialogue and cooperate for peace based upon the recognition that human dignity derives from a universal divine source that is the basis of harmony and unification and that all people are 'One Family Under God.'
UPF advocates renewal of the United Nations, including a proposal that the UN create an interreligious council within its structures.
UPF implements its programs through a global network of Ambassadors for Peace. Launched in 2001, Ambassadors for Peace has become the world's largest and most diverse network of peace leaders. They come from all walks of life representing all races, religions, nationalities, and cultures, and commit themselves to:
• Stand on the common ground of universal moral principles, committed to promoting reconciliation, overcoming barriers, and building peace.
• Form a global network of leaders representing the religious, racial, and ethnic diversity of the human family as well as all disciplines of human endeavor.
• Participate in peace initiatives and programs that promote reconciliation and cooperation beyond traditional boundaries of religion, race, ethnicity, and nationality.
• Promote and practice the ethic of “living for the sake of others” as the guiding principle for building world peace and a global community.

Main Projects / Activities

Conferences, Cultural Events, Evening Lectures

Contact (1) Full Name

Peter Haider

Head of the organisation

Peter Haider

Contact (2) Full Name

Mag. Elisabeth Cook

Forschungszentrum “Kulturen in Kontakt”, Universität Innsbruck – Research Focus “Cultures in Contact”, University of Innsbruck (Forschungsplattform “CEnT” – Research Platform “Cultural Encounters and Transfers”, University of Innsbruck)

National Network

Autriche

Address

Innrain 52
A-6020 Innsbruck
Autriche

Telephone

0043-5372-64147

E-Mail

breaking-the-stereotype2009-2010@gmx.at

E-Mail (2)

veronika.bernard@uibk.ac.at

Website

http://www.uibk.ac.at/kik

Organisation Type

Public Institution

Year of Establishment

2007

Fields of Activity

International/Cultural relations
Research
Youth and education

General Information

structure of the organisation, including number of staff employed and/ or partners: 1 head, 1 vice, 39 members budgetary resources available in a year: 4 000, 00 Euro for all of projects and administrative activities sources of funding: University of Innsbruck, Austrian Ministry of Science modalities of action (concrete projects, exchanges, seminars, scholarships, conferences etc): concrete projects, conferences and symposiums, seminars and lectures, publications main partners involved in the organisation’s projects/ activities: research groups with similar foci, primarily at European and North-American Universities and universities of the MENA region

Mission and Objectives

Research on modalities, structures, implications, mechanisms, strategies, consequences etc. of cultural encounters and transfers aiming at a better understanding of the aspects mentioned and being devoted to a cultural studies definition of “culture” and a both creative and innovative research approach aiming at a better understanding.

Main Projects / Activities

Projects (in alphabetical order) - Selection
Breaking the Stereotype. Oriental and Occidental Stereotypes in the Course of Time (director: Veronika Bernard; www.breaking-the-stereotype2009-2010.over-blog.org)
Hotel Jugoslavija. Die literarische und mediale Wahrnehmung der Balkankonflikte (directors: Martin Sexl, Arno Gisinger)
IMAGES – BILDER, die man sich macht. An interdisciplinary project on cultural encounters, migration, and ideologies (upcoming; director: Veronika Bernard)
MigrationsautorInnen in Frankreich (1981-2008), ein "literarisches Wörterbuch" (directors and eds.: Ursula Moser und Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner)
Russische Moderne und Intermedialität - Literatur und Film (director: Dunja Brötz)
Conferences/ Symposiums (in alphabetical order) - Selection
An den Grenzen der Sprache: Kommunikation von Unsagbarem im Kulturkontakt.
Internationales und interdisziplinäres Symposium, Universität Innsbruck, 18.-19. Dezember 2009 (coordinators: Manfred Kienpointner, Julia Pröll, Ulla Ratheiser)
Breaking the Stereotype 2010. From Orient and Occident to a Mutual Understanding of Images. An international and interdisciplinary conference, Istanbul 2010 Arts Production Centre, Istanbul, October 22-27, 2010 (coordinators: Veronika Bernard und Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous)
Migrant Europe, NIHMP, Rome, February 11, 2009 (coordinator: Veronika Bernard)
Racism, Slavery, and Literature. Internationales Symposium, Universität Innsbruck, 2.-5. Dezember 2008 (coordinators: Wolfgang Zach, Ulrich Pallua )
Responsibility to Protect: A Canadian Heritage. Peacekeeping, Diplomacy, Media, and Literature Responding to Humanitarian Challenges. Internationales und interdisziplinäres Symposium, Universität Innsbruck, 11.-14. November 2009 (coordinators: Ursula Moser, Thomas Spielbüchler)
for exhaustive information on research, teaching etc. activities see http://www.uibk.ac.at/kik

Contact (1) Full Name

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veronika Bernard

Head of the organisation

Prof. Ursula Moser