Malte

Upbeat Music House (UBMH Malta) provides services that enhance international understanding, integration, and inclusion. It also offers support services to develop our communities and improve the quality of life. Upbeat Music House promotes volunteering for sustainable development. We work with youths coming from diverse backgrounds, and endeavor to meet the needs of our communities through voluntary activities. By promoting inclusion, acceptance, understanding and mutual respect, our programs make a vital contribution to peace and sustainable development. The organization is a source of knowledge and advice on the importance of social cohesion and change management using music. We aim to engage and positively influence youths through our youth based music programmes. We work to equip, up- skill, and build competences in youths so that they actively participate in issues affecting the EU and its Member States. Upbeat Music House exists to make a difference in the communities where we operate in, through a number of well thought out humanitarian initiatives. We are involved in upholding human rights, intercultural existence through projects and initiatives that enhance the lives of those in our community. Upbeat Music House works in partnerships and collaborations with other NGOs and stakeholders in areas that help attain our objectives. Partnership is crucial to the success of all Upbeat Music House’s activities. From our offices in Malta, we are linked to a multi-disciplinary network of organisations carefully selected over the years and the combined professional experiences and resources we share to attain our organizational objectives.

The main objective of the Association is to bring together professionals from various disciplines directly or indirectly related to the fields of education, culture and media production in order that they explore ideas and pool resources, experience and energies turning concepts into fruition. The subsidiary objectives of the Association are : a) to offer project management, research, publishing and design work to organisations that are involved in education, culture and media projects, b) to offer support to other entities in the preparation of project proposals through any step from concept to final proposal be it for financial support or for the purpose of carrying out feasibility studies or dry runs on projects, c) to carry out negotiations and summons activities in the process of the formation of consortia of organisations that participate in proposals for multi partner and / or cross border cooperation activities, d) to generate a network of cooperative partners that will in the medium term become permanent partners of the Association, e) to set up a permanent infrastructure geared to become a permanent base of professionals that will form a team apt to take the Association into its own position in consortia and become a primary actor in international cooperation activities. f) to carry out all services and activities that are directly part of or ancillary to any of the above actions.

Xchange was established to investigate and document human movement in countries of origin, transit, and destination through on-the-ground engagement with all stakeholders, most of all migrants themselves, with a view to provide policy makers, State bodies, non-governmental organisations, and the public in general with accurate data which stems directly from field research. Our goal is to cast a spotlight on the information gaps found along the main migratory routes for the benefit of all, not least migrants themselves.