Romania

The association helps the Roma and non Roma living in extreme poverty. People who are struggling, who are orphans. The base of our work is to provide leisure activities, youth events and life issues with the aim to build up a self-running and financially independent youth work in the Region of Harghita, Romania. The young volunteers have been working here, who have committed themselves to work here with the children and the youth for a certain time. In a team of full-time and voluntary colleagues, honorary colleagues and international volunteers, we offer weekly programs, including language lessons, hand crafting, sports and excursions into the countryside. We dispatch young volunteers from Romania to other European countries, and we accept volunteers from all the European Union’s countries in our circle of colleagues. As a yearly highlight, we organize international youth meetings in the summer and winter holidays.

Together with National Administration Assotiation we develop the following publications:
- Daily Legal Analysis Bulletin,
- Daily Transparency Bulletin,
- SouthEast Europe Daily Open Sources Bulletin,
- Buletin Medical
We participate to developing the www.publicjobs.ro portal - career development portal for the public sector.

2010- 2011Primus inter Pares - a support program for college teachers on shaping workshops on life related topics : from barter to banks, from smoke to smart phones, Hair style past and present, evolution of clothing, memory and memoriesm, etc.  
2010-2012 - Memories for the Future - story telling by elederly about post war times and publishing Danube Tales.
​2013-2015 - Grundtvig Parthership - Senior Citizens Empowerment for Actuve Aging - create resources for senior volunteers working with youth, children, disadvantaged to enable them deal with advantages and disadvantages of stray dogs in community. Coordinator and project writing
2015-2017 -  Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership -Innovation- Useful Usability Disposability - a plastics free world- creating a e-learning plaform for NGO staff, youth workers, teachers, activists - self learning on how to create civic events enforced by art installations to support fight against plastic pollution.  
 

In 2009, ALIAT succeeded to implement local project “VOLUNTARIAT PENTRU VOLUNTARI” (financed by County department of Youth and Sport – GORJ).
In 2010, ALIAT succeeded to implement local project “1st edition of SARA DE PITARAI” (financed by Local Council of TISMANA).
In 2011, ALIAT succeeded to implement “1st of June – 2011” and “2nd edition of SARA DE PITARAI” (financed by Local Council of TISMANA).
In 2012, ALIAT succeeded to implement national initiative (in GORJ county) “CARAVANA SEV” (financed by European Commission).
In 2012 - 2013, ALIAT succeeded to implement group EVS project “Volunteers for Youth Perspectives – V.Y.P” (financed by ANPCDEFP).

Mod of Life is also experienced in the realisation of transnational and European projects; since 1993, a Research and Training Department has been developing and managing initiatives funded by European Programmes, such as: LLP, Youth in Action, Daphne, LLP, Equal, Interreg, Framework Programme, AAL, Europeaid, etc.

Our current projects and activities are related to youth exchange and voluntary services.
The founding members experience gained since 1999 - up to day, in organizing and participating in seminars, conferences, summer schools programs and trainings in international organizations like NATO and EU, and national academic institutions is a strong asset for our present and future projects.

Thinking local, we are very involved in the local community. We have our project "New Trees for New Life" where we are planting a forest (reforestation), here is the link of the project page (https://www.facebook.com/newtreesfornewlife/) and this event is happening twice a year since 2017. Every year we plant 30.000 trees with the help of a big team of around 500 volunteers. This initiative collects every year around 700.000 euro from private sponsors. New Trees for New Life represents a project of social responsibility and social entrepreneurship which was created in order to increase awareness in the community about the importance of protecting the environment through reforestation. Our final objective is to plant a number of 120,000 trees on 17.59 ha.
In July 2018- October 2019 we were involved in a very big national project that was meant to create and develop a public policy about non-formal education. We wanted to give more power to the non-formal education by this law that we wrote together with a team of experts. (https://www.facebook.com/nonformalsepoate/) this was an intense initiative and project as we travelled all country to first discuss the needs of NGOs, Young people and relevant stakeholders in creating the law. After we had another round to present and promote the law written by the experts. Right now, the Law is at the Ministry of Education being studied by their team. As for the future, we are developing now a KA3 project where we will be holding a festival of elections and will simulate the suffrage process of the European parliament with students from all around Romania.

Some of our local activities include: 
- Effect ITF – Independent Theatre Festival Galati;
- We run for Community - charity marathon with participation fee. The participants sustain a cause and the cause sustained by the winner gets all the funds.
- ACUFest  - cultural performing activities, graffiti, exhibition  and outdoor sports in Galati; dance competition;
- Be a volunteer, volunteering counts - Encouraging young people volunteering thru a series of seminars and conferences with the support of Peace Corps volunteers in Republic of Moldova.
- Mediations of internships - Trying to help young people find a job by mediating a dialogue between those who want to do internship / volunteer in the state or private companies and those that require unskilled labour;
- Applied Budget (a campaign to develop the civic sense of people in Galati, showing them that their opinion matters and that they can influence some of the Town Hall's future budget);
- Introducing Public Speaking and other non-formal type of courses for local youth and young entrepreneurs; 
- Presentation of the Youth in Action and Erasmus+ programme to students from university and high schools;
- The road to the sea (20 volunteers accompanying kids with disabilities and from placement homes to the seaside and offering them three days of fun);
- The Magic of Christmas-Christmas Show (for kids from placement homes and families with less opportunities);
- Campaigns in local schools about the abuse of legal and illegal drugs;
- Whish Box (Christmas presents for children coming from poor families).  
International projects:
We keep good collaboration with our international partners and we are opened for new contacts.
We pay special attention involving newcomers into international projects.
Some of our Youth in Action and Erasmus+ Project we have participated in are:
     2016
    
- North Mitrovica, Kosovo - European Minority Youth Inclusion - Training course promotes and raises awareness about social cohesion, tolerance, diversity and solidarity while in the same time fights against discrimination, racism, homophobia, xenophobia and exclusion in general in any form;
- Tokaj, Ungaria - World without hate - Youth exchange aiming to destroy the participants prejudice brought from own society and accept underprivileged people, especially Roma citizens;
- Agropoli, Italy - ArtEUCommunity - Youth exchange focused on the technique of papier-mâché ( better known to cast paper ) , as a form of creative art and aiming to promote the territory and exploit its traditions , in an exchange of ideas and best practices with other countries, with the aim of creating social inclusion and employment.
- Turkey, Adana - Discover yourself with Sports - Study visit with the objective to help the young people, who are exposed to technological and social inducement and directions within the modern life conditions, to discover their identities and reveal their hidden skills, through sport;
- Riga, Latvia - PSP: Personal, social and professional development of Roma EVS volunteers - Seminar aiming to explore and share theories and tools which can provide support for Roma young people to benefit from their EVS experiences as personal, social and professional competence development;
- Coka, Serbia - EuroACTive - Training course designed to empower youth workers
and active leaders to act for social activation of youth in their local communities, foster social inclusion and building of social cohesion in theirlocal communities using theatre related methods;
- Van, Turkey - Virtual Reality - Study visit aiming to create consciousness and awareness of young people about the virtual world, to avoid Internet from being a threat for the youth, to ensure the Internet it’s being used at a high level as a source for right perception and controlled usage;
 -  Tirana, Albania - Intercultural Dialogue through Music - Training designed to develop youth worker’s competences in intercultural dialogue through the use of music in order to increase the quality of their work and strengthening the capacity of their organisations.
   
2015
- Belgrade, Serbia - EuropeanYouth Work Academy - Strategic partnership designed for people interested in the work of NGOs and Erasmus+ program and willing to expand their personal abilities;
- Kirsehir, Turkey - Just Breathe - Youth exchange designed to help young participants to realize how important to prevent themselves from bad habits, to have natural diet and to do sports in order to maintain good lifestyle;
-  Italy, Torino & Tbilisi, Georgia - Is God with us? - Srtategic partnership consisting in a training and a youth exchange, designed as a debate about the role of religion in the contemporary society and how and which is the role of religion in the role of the youth worker;
- Aksaray - Stop Addiction - Youth exchange focussed on  Social media and its negative effects on people addicted to it and also prevention of social media addiction;
- Kusadasi, Turkey - Build, Educate, Transfer - Training course aiming to raise participant's awareness and highlight the importance of organizing and recognizing your own learning at large, either while working into an intercultural environment, either while working into your local community;
- Italy, Palermo - Multi-Generation. Finding our identity - Youth exchange designed to make participants understand that the migration’s phenomenon is not only a problem but also an opportunity of reflection and action in order to build and to make possible a society more and more intercultural;
- Palkovice, Czech Republic - I have a dream - Youth exchange that aims to help participants visualize their dreams and to set up a plan of small steps that can lead them to fulfil their dreams as soon as they come back to their countries and to compose their dreams to common dancing flashmob;
- Nyíregyháza, Hungary - Coaching Your Dreams - Training about the method of coaching in the youth work. This project was build from the practice and experiences of different organisations and experts;
-  Antalya, Turkey - Entrepreneurship, this way! - Youth exchange that aims to make youth be  aware of their capabilities and skills, believing that they could do to better to ensure their self-esteem and be able to activate develop their entrepreneurial spirit;
- Hungary, Székesfehérvár - Intercultipreneur - Youth exchange designed to give participants the opportunity to learn about the theme of social entrepreneurship for youth community development in multicultural environment and to get practical experience through various group activities and interaction with organizations related to the topics;
- Crnomelj, Slovenia - Advanced volunteer management - Training course designed to provide participants with competences and tools for implementing effective volunteer management system;
- Poland, Zlocieniec - Coach vs youth worker - Training course aimed to increase quality of youth work, through developing competences of youth workers form partner and cooperating organizations;
- Poland, Wisla - Healthy and active - Training designed to develop professional and personal skills of youth workers and hereby improve the quality of work of adults, young people and volunteers;
- Slovakia, Bratislava & Bakuriani, Georgia - Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainability -Strategic partnership consisting in a training course and a youth exchange aiming to explore the concept of social entrepreneurship as an innovative way to solve social problems in youth work using entrepreneurial skills;
- France, Strasbourg - Connecting Mobility - Training Course designed to provide tools and improve competences, in order to create a stronger link between youth mobility experience and the further professional perspectives, through the use of non-formal methods which answer the needs of youth in line with the requirements of labour market;
- Turkey, Edirne - Rhythm of Life - Youth exchange; learn about Roma culture and develop a sense of tolerance towards a different culture;
-  Italy, Montone(Peruggia) - Citizen of Europe  - Youth exchange aiming at curbing the phenomenon of the lack of interest of young people in the political and social activities, domestic and international, with particular reference to the activities within the European Union;
- Czech Republic, Mikulovice - Verbattle meets Europe - Youth exchange that aimed to improve participant's communication and language skills through seminars of work with information, logic, formulating their own opinions and arguments, public speaking, presentation skills and other soft-skills;
- Italy, Montecatini - Support Opportunities For Training   Skills  - Training course that aimed to contribute to youth worker’s social growth by offering them knowledge and practical tools to develop soft skills and transfer them to target group they are working with, in each organization;
- Czech Republic, Zlin - “Just grow up!” – Strategic partnership consisting in a training course and a youth exchange, focused on activation of young people and their motivation for self-development and job searching;
- Latvia, Ragana - To the point - Training course that aimed to provide youth workers working on sustainability and education with tools they can use to communicate important information in less than 3 minutes, and with the skills to do so;
     -  Albania, Pogradec - Creative strategies To approach Challenging Youth - Training designed to define the role of the youth worker/leader, methods for youth worker/leader approaches to the young people and to activate the inactive youth;
       -   Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad - Art & Culture - Journey to Success - art and crafts as a new alternative to the issue of youth unemployment;(Youth exchange)
       - Lithuania, Trakai district – Hobby + Creativity = Successful Business - access to new approaches of creativeness and to strengthen confidence and self esteem through ingenuity and creativity;(Youth exchange)
       -Austria, Viena - Photo planet, picture earth - stimulate young people's spirit of initiative using method of creative photography for their ability to create pictures;(Training course)
       - Portugal, District of Santarem - Building bridges for Entrepreneurship and Emploiability - fight the scourge of youth unemployment, using, sharing and meetingnew practices, developed within the framework of youth work;(Study visit)
        - Turkey, Hakkari - Fair-Play Spirit - developing collaboration avoiding bad habits, involvement in actual social life, awareness in Olympic culture, connective power of sports.(Study visit)
          - Turkey, Tavsanly - All You Need is Sports - popularizing amateur sports in daily life and and encourage individuals to do at list one branch of sports.(Youth exchange)
 

Some of our activities include: 
 
Local activities:
- Do it for community, do it for your family, do it for yourself - local seminar with the participation of the local community, students and teachers regarding volunteering and active citizenship;
- Human Rights with no exceptions - Seminar on Human Rights education, specially on gender and LGBTQ issue.
- Play with your hearth - charity show meant to help with funds the kids from the orphanage in Galati;
- Campaigns in local schools about the abuse of legal and illegal drugs;
- Be cool, clean your neighbourhood - ecological event, meant to make young students and volunteers be more aware of having a cleaner environment;
- Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainability - seminar aiming to explore the concept of social entrepreneurship as an innovative way to solve social problems in youth work using entrepreneurial skills
- First Aid knowledge is life-saving knowledge - first Aid course for organization’s volunteers with the support of local Ambulance staff
-  Students Agora - seminar meant to make volunteers more confident in their speech, accommodate them with the idea of public debate;
- Sporty life is a healthier life - event that encourage youngsters to add more sport into their daily lives
International activities:
Our volunteers participated in more than 50 Erasmus plus and Euromed projects, they are very open minded and active youngsters.
 

Local projects:
- Do it for community, do it for your family, do it for yourself - local seminar with the participation of the local community, students and teachers regarding volunteering and active citizenship;
- Human Rights with no exceptions - Seminar on Human Rights education, especially on gender and LGBTQ issue.
- Play with your hearth - charity show meant to help with funds the kids from the orphanage in Galati;
- Campaigns in local schools about the abuse of legal and illegal drugs;
- Be cool, clean your neighbourhood - ecological event, meant to make young students and volunteers be more aware of having a cleaner environment;
- Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainability - seminar aiming to explore the concept of social entrepreneurship as an innovative way to solve social problems in youth work using entrepreneurial skills
- First Aid knowledge is life-saving knowledge - first Aid course for organization’s volunteers with the support of local Ambulance staff;
-  Students Agora - seminar meant to make volunteers more confident in their speech, accommodate them with the idea of public debate;
- Sporty life is a healthier life - event that encourage youngsters to add more sport into their daily lives
International activities:

- Forli, Italy - KEEPinMIND - Youth exchange aiming to develop several key competences so as to encourage the critical thinking of young participants, helping them to objectively analyse information, evaluate and interpret experiences and make objective thinking, not influenced by prejudices and stereotypes.
- Krakow, Poland - EuroTube - Youth exchange aiming to raise awareness about European Union, its institutions and the ways of running the European politicsthrough a series of documentary movies made by participants;
- Terceira Island, Portugal - Active Jobs - Youth exchange to capacitate the youngsters to become more active and to be able to face a job interview at any level.
- Mersin, Turkey - Change minds - Change future - Training course seeking to strengthen local organizations through building networks for future partnerships for social projects and increasing the competences of youth workers, youth leaders and volunteers from those organizations in social campaign management by using innovative and creative media tools ; thus to fight against hate and discrimination especially on minorities, immigrants and asylum-seekers, through increasing the awareness on the notions as peace, faith, tolerance, empathy, inclusion and the respect to human rights and freedoms in the scope of European values
- Berlin, Germany - Youth Academy 2017 - Training course aiming to support the quality development of non-formal education activities in the youth work, through the development of competences of youth workers for preparing and implementing workshops, trainings, seminars and similar activities,  organized for youth on local and international level with special focus on human rights and minority issues;
-  Bremen, Germany - Unite in diversity - Multilateral project that focuses on European values in context of the European crisis and should give youth workers, NGO representatives and young people the chance to learn and express their ideas about united Europe. The main aim of the project is to foster the idea of European citizenship in order to overcome the European crisis, including refugee crisis and Brexit.
- Breznik, Bulgaria - Present Yourself, Be Successful - Youth exchange aiming to propose ways to fight the youth unemployment and to build tolerance to and integrate disadvantaged  youths into the social and economic life of the society;
- Pirdop, Bulgaria - Memory for the future - Youth exchange having as main goal to set mutual knowledge of history, culture, lifestyle and traditions of the Balkans, the recovery of forgotten folk values, preservation and promotion of  folk songs and dances, improving interethnic and intercultural dialogue, the formation of skills in certain problems in multiethnic team;
- Szklarska Poreba Gorna, Poland - Youth Employability Stimulators of Tomorrow - the training course objectives where to discuss the need and explore the possibility of youth organisations to address this vital European issue of youth unemployment by providing youth with knowledge, skills and attitudes through their work that can stimulate their employability or entrepreneurial spirit;
- Trezza, Italy - Let’s shout our rights - Youth exchange tackling the issues related to human rights and immigration in order to develop in young people a sense of tolerance and acceptance that needs to be enriched with elements from the experiences of other young people from other countries;
- Krakow, Poland - EuropeLIVE - Youth exchange having as aim to discuss about the most significant events in European history with the help of LARP scenarios, to define what does the European identity mean for us and to understand the process of its development;
- Sofia, Bulgaria - FOLLOW ME - Find opportunities in life by learning and observing with motivation and empowerment - Training course for youth workers, youth leaders, EVS mentors on how to use the coaching methodology, tools, techniques and best practices to develop competences and qualities of people to realize their full potential and personal values and to find their personal motivation to set and achieve their goals;
- Durres, Albania - EYE CAN - Empowering Youth Entrepreneurship through Capacity-building Activities and Networking  - Strategic partnership focussed on empowering youth with skills and competences, need it to start their own bussines;
- Poronin, Poland - One culture, Hip-Hop - Youth exchange having as aim to encourage people to be active and through cooperation, integration and activation of others in their communities, such as youngsters coming from backgrounds with limited access to education, due to economic and geographical barriers, to jointly develop their skills related to Hip-Hope culture: breakdance, graffiti and music production;
- Poronin, Poland - Street Stuff - Training course having as main goal the acquisition by the participants of new skills in street dance, rap music, graffiti art etc. that they can later implement in youth work in their environment, in order to hit a wider audience with the so-called difficult environments;
- Bata, Bulgaria - The best plan where ever you work yourself ! - Youth exchange having as main abjective as participants to acquire specific knowledge and skills on healthy eating, sport and prevention of various dependencies through the methods of non-formal education;