Calle Clara Campoamor, nº15, Bajo, Puerta B
28025 Madrid Madrid
Spain
- Youth and education
The Talasa Association is a young organisation founded with the purpose and the commitment to develop courses by and for young people and workers from the European Union and neighbourhood countries, focused on building bridges and understanding, based on non-formal education.
The association is made up of 6 permanent members, specialised in non-formal education and project management. At the moment the association comprises a total of 39 members. As a recently created association, we are looking for sources of funding for our projects. Our current main source of funding is the Erasmus+ Programme.
The Talasa Youth Association is carrying out a local project focused on the development of a digital newspaper in an educational centre in Madrid. It has also received approval to carry out an Erasmus+ project. Finally, it has participated in multiple projects as sending organisation. Currently, it is awaiting approval for new courses with different EU partners.
Our mission is based on:
- Giving young people and workers the tools to be able to develop and participate in a common project.
- Building networks of exchange, dialogue and knowledge, based on experience and good practices, at national, European and international levels.
- Encourage tools through non-formal education techniques, which allow the development of transversal competencies in society.
- Educate within the democratic values and the construction of various shared and common identities.
The objectives pursued by the organisation are mainly three:
1. Encourage learning, network building and the development of shared identities among young people and workers in the EU and neighbourhood countries.
2. Develop, through non-formal education, educational exchanges, training and voluntary work among young people and workers in the European Union and neighbourhood countries.
3. Bridging the gap between the opportunities offered by public youth policies and their implementation by young people and workers at regional, national, European and European Neighbourhood levels.
Projects developed by Talasa:
Erasmus+ Youth Exchange “Debate it!”
- Number of participants: 34
- Country partners: Ukraine, Hungary, Portugal, Turkey and Germany.
- Duration: 01/11/2021-01/02/2023
- Purpose: The main topic of “Debate it!” youth exchange is education on hate speech, free speech and debate skills for young people through non-formal education techniques.
- Budget (Approved): 30.031€
TGN News
- Number of participants: 15
- Duration: 01/01/2021-30/07/2021. New edition: 01/01/2022-30/07/2022.
- Purpose: This project is managed by both the Talasa Association and the EFIVOS Association. The main topic of the “TGN News” local project s the creation of a digital newspaper by the young people of an educational centre in Madrid. As well as learning digital tools and journalistic methods.
- Budget (Awaiting for approval): 3.500€
Con las manos en la masa
- Number of participants: 16
- Duration: 01/12/2020-31/12-2022
- Purpose: This project is managed by both the Talasa Association and the San Cebrian Association. The main topic of "Con las manos en la masa" is focused on people with mental disabilities, and whose future perspective is the social and labour inclusion in the culinary field.
- Budget (Awaiting for approval): 13.370€
Approved projects of Talasa as a partner:
Erasmus+ Youth Exchange “Eco not Ego”
- Organisers: WINetzwerk e.V. (Germany) & NGO Unit (Ukraine)
- Country partners: Germany, Ukraine, Georgia, Spain, Turkey and Portugal.
- Venue: Henichesk, Ukraine.
- Duration: 1-08/09/2021
- Purpose: The main topic of “Eco not ego” youth exchange is an ecological mindful lifestyle. Through working on ecological issues the aim is to increase understanding of democracy and active citizenship and the relation between them.
- Funded by Erasmus+
Erasmus+ Training Course “School without walls”
- Organisers: Egusad Projects & Utopia EduArt
- Country partners: Spain, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania and Portugal
- Venue: Antalya, Turkey.
- Duration: 31/07-06/08/2021
- Purpose: The main topic of “School without walls” is to see how nature can be useful to explore relationships between cultures and to highlight differences in a creative way. The project focus on education in nature.
- Funded by Erasmus+
Erasmus+ Training Course “Youth 2.0”
- Organisers: Egusad Projects & Utopia EduArt
- Country partners: Spain, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Turkey and Croatia.
- Venue: Antalya, Turkey.
- Duration: 24/08-02/09/2021
- Purpose: The main topic of “Youth 2.0” is to discover how web 2.0 tools can be useful to explore relationships between cultures, improve the quality of youth work, and the quality of our daily life. As an outcome of the activities, an online platform to introduce WEB 2.0 tools for youth work was established.
- Funded by Erasmus+
Erasmus+ Youth Exchange “Culture caravan”
- Organisers: Yörükler Kültür Dayanisma ve tardimlasma dernegi.
- Country partners: Bulgaria, Spain, Jordan, Egypt, Lithuania, Azerbaijan and Turkey.
- Venue: Antalya, Turkey.
- Duration: 04-12/09/2021
- Purpose: The main topic of “Culture Caravan” is to promote intercultural dialogue between various cultures from 7 countries. The project’s main activities are traditional music, dances, children games and other cultural elements that will be used as tools to promote intercultural dialogue.
- Funded by Erasmus+
We believe that we can contribute to the ANF network in our country by bringing new ideas and perspectives to the Spanish network, as well as participating with new educational techniques and collaborating with new partners.
Talasa Association is a relatively recent NGO, but we have a great sense of responsibility and work, and this is a priority for us at all times in order to provide quality products. That is why, despite our short duration, we have already worked successfully on many projects and with different partners.
Relations between Mediterranean countries are often not given the importance that they really have and we believe that from our role as part of the Spanish civil society, we can advocate for improving the general knowledge in the population, as well as offering new educational opportunities. Whenever we carry out and manage projects we always try to introduce participants from different parts of Spain, as well as with different levels of opportunity, in order to achieve an ever-greater reach and an accomplishment of objectives that will bring about real change in society.
Therefore, we wish to contribute to the ANL network in our country in order to have a new and fundamental way of opportunities for the participants. As well as a task to motivate and disseminate Mediterranean relations in our country, introducing new actors, methodology and innovative approaches.
The Talasa Youth Association arose from the interest of a group of classmates in the Master of the Complutense University of Madrid, "The European Union and the Mediterranean". Therefore, the focus on the Mediterranean region has been a priority at all times, even before the association was formalised as such.
The theme of the Mediterranean and the possibility of bringing these countries closer together seems to us to be fundamental. We live facing the Mediterranean, but we are often unaware of what exists on the other side of the sea. We want to participate in the ANF Network in order to provide learning opportunities and bring these shores closer together, which we believe are very similar and where it is possible to learn in all respects.
We want to be able to deepen our Mediterranean richness and give value to all the opportunities that are taking place around it, as is the case of the opportunities offered by the Anna Lindh Foundation. We want to be able to offer quality education and teachings from the Mediterranean to our local area, as well as to share our perspectives and culture in other places in order to enhance dialogue and bridge building. This bridge-building is, after all, one of the main objectives of the Talasa Youth Association, and we hope that these bridges can be built throughout the Mediterranean.