Allemagne

The Mainz Institute for Mediadesign is part of the School of Design of the Mainz University of Applied Sciences. The img is specialized on the field of moving image, sound and interactive devices with partners in Portugal, Italy, Spain, Jordan, Mexico and Macao. Modalities of action are i.e. interactive projects"The Sound of Lisbon", "Porto Cartography", exchanges with intl. partnes and blended/present seminars.

Canada Meets Germany – A Forum for Young Leaders www.canadameetsgermany.org Germany Meets Turkey – A Forum for Young Leaders www.germanymeetsturkey.org

Our approaches are based on multicultural activity dimension with a focus on:
 Promoting educational program for youth and enhancing inter-cultural exchanges
 Creating awareness of environment protection and energy efficiency
 Encouraging good governance and citizen participation
 Addressing the human rights concern of children, women, elderly, impaired, vulnerable, and refugees.
 Strengthening regional cooperation
Our other activities include enhancing intercultural intelligence, barriers to understanding cultural information, and building a culture of multiculturalism with deliberate programs on improving:
• Knowledge of the multidimensional and complex character of cultures as well as the ability to reflect the own cultural context
• understanding of how cultural differences shape individual perceptions, communication processes and courses of action
• Basic competences in intercultural communication
• The ability to reflect and analyze the behavior of one’s own and of strangers as well as to develop action alternatives
• An understanding of possible emotional dynamics during stays abroad and the ability to better cope with emerging issues
Our organizational experience is anchored on the strength of our membership composition as well as the strength of the NGO Network we are working within Europe. ISEDE focuses on developing teaching programs that enhance youth cooperation, life learning skills for adult migrants, encouraging citizen participation in governance, addressing the human rights concern of children, women, impaired, vulnerable, refugees, and elderly citizens. All our programs are targeted at those experiencing social exclusion and inequality. We believe that aside technological changes, the conception of learning for both educators and adults’ learners has changed from the individual learner and most times the educators have become learning facilitators, so it is imperative to fashion out programs to learn from adults and people of background who are experiencing social exclusion. ISEDE programs aim to highlight the need to redefine projects and programs in education for adult learning into four interdependent factors that are essential in quality VET teaching practice. They include project/program development, project/program planning, project/program delivery, project/program review, and educator’s continuous competence building, which takes accounts of the indicators that have affected the training activities. These indicators may range from; new target groups in VET, changing paradigms in educational theory, diversification of learning environments, and fast changes in education structures and priorities and the labor market.
Finally, ISEDE will pertain her focus on activating capacity building programs within and outside the European Union on the categories of Youth Exchange, Further Training Courses, and Vocational Educational Learning.

InterCultur non-profit GmbH offers seminars, training courses, events, educational projects and consulting for organizations, companies, institutions, educational establishments and individuals who need to improve and develop their understanding and interaction with other cultures. With these offers, InterCultur directly trains target groups in need of further education and also multipliers for the transfer of skills. Our intercultural learning training courses focus, for example, on a critical examination of one's own cultural background, aspects of intercultural communication, an examination of cultural values and how these influence actions or culturally determined conflict styles. Raising awareness of the challenges of cross-cultural work contributes directly to better cooperation despite cultural differences. In addition, InterCultur develops educational and encounter projects and implements these with cooperation partners. InterCultur is a recognized organizer of intercultural training and educational programs through the quality assessment of Weiterbildung Hamburg e.V..

IYDA has a wide experience in the youth field and owns permanent and highly qualified facilities for training courses, meetings, apprenticeships, workshops, youth exchanges or initiatives, etc. with different skills: its facilities, together with the staff’s skills, allow to always meet the stated goals.

Partnerships with organizations all over the world regarding any co-operations in different fields of culture exchange, community services, minority, and refugees’ crisis. IYDA applies short time programs either inside or outside Germany for the two different « categories «youth exchanges» or «Training courses» through Key Action one or Two.

We have a focus of helping migrants and refugees through our projects whether it’s local or national or European as we had a very important role through our participation in projects such as project HOME which was held in Luxembourg study visits to showcase how they reintegrate them into society and how they help them with languages.

Moreover, IYDA develops «internships » programs will the co-operations with organizations and companies in most of the European countries, ex (European countries, caucus, and south Mediterranean countries). We aim at reinforcing the dialogue of understanding and inclusion within the sphere of youth, contributing to a more inclusive society.

In the "Journey to Peace" program, and during workshops, We easily managed on how to teach the participants about conflict management and how to organize a debate for a better outcome and knowing more about the intercultural mix and exchange of ideas smoothly and safely.

Its staff comes from different educational backgrounds and fields of study, such as Engineering, youth in action, media, human rights, European citizenship, minority-majority relationship, Marketing, Public Relations, Project Management, etc. All of them, during the year, take part in several training courses, at local and European level, based on non-formal education to improve their skills and competences as mentors and facilitators.

We focus on our activities on a long-lasting experience about European project management, promotion of social inclusion of disadvantaged people and sharing skills, and best practices.

Finally, IYDA gets itself unique by mainly focusing on the « Culture exchange, minorities and youth engagement» concept, and the methodology of applying this aspect at the organization takes place by enhancing the dialogue for any conflict resolution in the cultural differences between nations.