Havnegade 3 A
5700 Svendborg
Denmark
- Democracy and community development
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
The main aim is to promote young people´s intercultural understanding across boarders through experience and personal relationship.
This will be done by:
- promoting and supporting young people´s initiative towards international connection through international projects and EVS
- giving young people a completely different experience by meeting other cultures
- giving young people the opportunity to develop intercultural competences and strengthen knowledge about different cultural backgrounds
- giving young people the opportunity to develop international visions for the future and reflect upon their role according European and global development of culture, environment and nature.
Our target group is young people between 13-30 years old. On local and national level we cooperate with different schools and organisations in different fields. The organisation has an accreditation for hosting and sending volunteers as well, but not yet any experience.
The main projects so fare has been youth exchange applied Erasmus+. We work with social innovation through Non-Formal Education and methods. Our international projects in Denmark have been on democracy and peace education. One projects with Palestine was about prejudice and traditions. Also a very interested project, 3D, Dream, Discover and Do mixing people with hearing and sight impairment has been held last year.
YO-YO´s Yes point is open one day a week where young people can come and create own ideas for international projects, and get the support needed to transform the ideas into reality. In 2016 we are focusing on increasing cooperation with local schools to try and increase the amount of young people involved. In Marts we join the youth exchange, Changing Perspective, in Portugal about employability and development of competences. All participants are from VUC Odense, an adult education centre, which is our first project together in other to development local cross sectional cooperation focusing on supporting formal and non-formal education.
Also we are accredited to host volunteers, and hope to start involving EVS programs.
YO-YO are interested in making international projects with organisations from Mediterranean countries. , eg. EVS courses or exchanges. We have staff with lots of experience in the youth field, both in formal and non-formal education. YO-YO is active in youth work and makes regularly new international projects. Our focus is always on quality, and we always want to learn and improve our work. We will inspire others, as they will inspire us, and keen on sharing best practice. We have experience in visibility of our project, and off course this will also be our practice with any possible Anna Lindh foundation received.
In Denmark there is an urgent need to meet and cooperate with cultures from Mediterranean countries. One reason is the massive flight of refugees, and the other the massive increase of diversity in society. This promotes a lot of culture clashes and prejudice. We need to make frames where young people can meet thus to combat prejudice and to promote international citizenships. In the ALF network we want to find good, reliable partner, who not only want to make youth exchange, but also want to develop and secure quality in the work we do. Hopefully, we can make new creative international project with new perspectives. The media are sometimes a threat for living peaceful together. Young people have to meet and share mutual knowledge, and debate on issues we face being from different parts of the world. It is important to support youth´s active participation to create a society based on dialog and peace.