C/ Carretas 33 2nd Floor to the right F
28012 Madrid
Spain
- Democracy and community development
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
CREA's mission is directly linked to the great economic depression caused in 2011. CREA is understood not only as a resource center but also as a solution for the small municipalities of Spain focusing more in areas with high unemployment and few resources. It offers the oportunity to join nation-wide associations in a common search for promoting actions, services and projects that allows the organization to enhance the public-private partnership.
In our structure, municipalities provide technical support, knowledge and presence on the ground, together with the adequate supervision to ensure the maximun compliance with transparency and quality standards, while the associations, companies and other structures provide instrumental resources and support for the actions proposed by CREA.
This way, CREA is configured as a resource center that receives petitions and ideas from its members, creates a draft of the project, and then shapes and monitorizes it, supporting the members and improving the quality of the received proposals.
All the projects are structured by CREA under the principles of the document "Misión, Visión y Valores para la Participación de los Pequeños y Medianos municipios 2014-2020", which states the basic ideas and principles of the association. These project are stuctured under the following working structures:
-Youth programs
CREA collaborates with the European program ERASMUS +. The association, under direct collaboration with Town Halls and local institutions offers the opportunity to stay abroad for volunteering.
-Programs for women and equal opportunities
CREA celebrates meetings and sessions in order to boost opportunities with the program "Mujer +45". This program is created in association with the City Halls of Galicia and Andalucía.
-Department of Public Health programs
Diffusion of the objectives to fight drug dependency stated in the Declaration by United Nations and collaborate with associations against the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
-Department of Employment and Entrepreneurship programs
This initiative seeks, under the Funding Tools of the European Union and the ERASMUS for Entrepreneurs program, to provide young people living in the district members of CREA the processing, guidance and information environment for youth exchanges, short stays abroad and the promotion of ideas to fix human capital in the rural environment.