Rue Van Elewyck 35
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
- Democracy and community development
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
SCI Belgium is a member of SCI International, an international voluntary service organisation with 40 branches in Asia and Europe and more than 50 partners in Eastern Europe, Africa, North and Latin America, that was founded after the First World War. Structure of the organization, please see Organization chart uploaded. 11 employed staff - about 100 partners in the world and in Belgium Budgetary resources (yearly): 600.000€ Sources of funding: DGD (Direction générale de la Coopéraiton au développement) - Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Youth Department) - European Commission (EVS projects). Examples of concrete projects: http://scibelgium.be/spip.php?article432 Our main partners aboroad are members of CCIVS network.
SCI Belgium is an NGO and youth organization whose mission is to promote peace, intercultural understanding, solidarity, social justice and ecology through voluntary projects and educative work. The main objective of SCI s to give the opportunity to volunteers to enlarge their view of the world and to encourage active citizenship.
At an international level: The main method used by SCI to promote its values is short and long term international voluntary service projects. More than 5000 volunteers participate in these activities every year, including East-West and North-South exchanges. SCI also organises international seminars and solidarity campaigns, education and training courses. The activities cover a wide range of fields including: antiracism, North South solidarity, intercultural dialogue, migrations, ecology, peace and conflict resolution, etc. At a national level: Every year, SCI Belgium sends about 200 volunteers abroad. The volunteers who participate to this intercultural exchange program have to take part in a training including different sessions. SCI Belgium also runs many raising awareness activities in youth groups (in schools and associations). The volunteers can also get involved in different action groups which aims are to treat themes (such as migrations, North-South relationships, globalization issues, Latin American, African or Mediterranean issues, etc) in order to raise awareness and knowledge about them. They do that through articles, conferences, solidarity actions, etc.
By - Exchanging good practices in the field of youth work, intercultural dialogue and non-formal education - Bringing together youth organizations, youth workers or activists working on promotion of peace and involved in their day to day life with topics such as: conflict resolution, intercultural dialogue, non-violent communication and peace education at a local, national and international level - Developing new mobility projects, reinforcing Euromediterranean co-operation - Promoting reciprocity within youth exchanges
To share experiences, methods of work and tools in order to better promote active citizenship in the Euromediterranean region To get to know other organizations promoting active citizenship and to develop new co-operations in the Euromediterranean region To give the opportunity to youth activists from different backgrounds to meet, exchange ideas and share experiences