Romania

The main projects are:
- Periferic Biennial for Contemporary Arts
- Vector Magazine - arts and culture in context
- Studio fro Arts practices and debates (in collaboration with "G.Enescu" Arts University in Iasi, Romania

National Psichology Conference, Workshop - International Day for School Non-Violence, Civic education in Action, Sociologic Research about the educational needs, Seminars - Transfrontier and Intercultural Collaboration, Constanta's Interculturality Events.
Editting "Soul's meaning" psichologist magazine
Activities:
- According psychological, psyopedagogical, moral and material assistance to persons and disadvantaged groups
- Analysis, studies, reports, synthesis, relevant literature regarding human life quality
- Editting of scinetific, informative materials
- Informing world opinion, all wide, about human needs

We’ve developed projects : “Empowerment Against Discrimination” -YIA, in order to empower young people from vulnerable groups , “Dare to be Yourself” –YIA in order to dismount stereotypes and prejudices regarding the LGBT community, “The Art of Fire” – AFCN : in order to rise the inclusion or young rroma people and now we are implementing Grundtvig project “Core” for gender equality and against domestic violence. We’ve also achieved activities such as: The First March of Tolerance, My Language is Humanity, The Affirmative Action, Arising Awareness Campaign or we have celebrated – developing a partnership with National Romanian Commission for UNESCO – UNESCO international days.

The main projects of ACE-ES Romania are:
1. Free Support Program for Sustainable NGOs – so far we are providing free consulting services for 8 NGOs, located in Bucharest, Arges, Ilfov county, Constanta and Neamt. Areas covered: structural funds (writing grant applications), social economy, organizational development, fund raising and development programs for vulnerable groups.
2. "Social Economy, which way?" – ACE-ES Romania has launched an online Working Group in order to bring together specialists and organizations interested in developing the field of social economy in Romania. Main topics are the following: Certification Models of social economy structures; Social impact assessment; Non-traditional businesses as a tool for employability; Human Resources/Training; Support structures in social economy.
3. ”YES for Entrepreneurial Youth NGOs, YES for Millennials Changers” – ERASMUS + Strategic Partnerships for Youth - The general aim is to stimulate transnational exchange of good practices and relevant experiences in developing modern and challenging action-based learning contexts for professional people of the youth NGOs (with a focus on youth workers) based on social enterpreneurship so that they could stimulate sustainable development of their organisations and their target groups.
This project is implemented with bbw gGmbH from Germany and CESUR - CENTRO SUPERIOR DE FORMACION EUROPA SUR from Spain (September 2015-November 2016).
4. FUN Studio – is a complex project for children, youth and adults/parents in order to develop practical transversal skills for a positive life based on self-esteem, laughing/personal development and positive thinking.
5. ”START Social Entrepreneurship for Women!” - To increase awareness about social entrepreneurship as a tool of economic empowerment and to support educated young women with a precarious status on market labour to become financially independent. It has 2 components: A. a complex support program for women (psychological and vocational counseling; training in social entrepreneurship) B. free consultancy for starting their own social business. (June 2016-may 2017). The project is supported by VGIF Foundation.

Current projects include:
"Europe for all?" a long term project, coordinated by ANCE (Greece), aims to involve young people with fewer opportunities (2nd generation immigrants) in the organization of an information campaign and cultural events addressed to other young people, exploring and dealing with the issues of cultural diversity and European citizenship.
V Day Bucharest 2009 within the frame of the V DAY global campaign against violence against women we are organizing representations of the collective play "A memory, a monologue, a rant and a prayer" (ed. Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle) with non-professional actresses and actors, followed by an awareness raising campaign on violence against women and the need of activism and community action.
Trainings on role of art in social change, realised in partnership with Hajde da (Serbia) include "Get their message heard", training for youth leaders, contemporary dancers and persons with disabilities on how to use contemporary dance in work with mixed-ability groups and "Performance as a tool for social action", designed for youth and social workers as well as artists who are interested in using performance in their work.
Together. Human Rights Education with Young People, is a program run by the organization since its begining, curently we're developing training for students and teachers in human rights based on Theatre of the Oppressed, Sensorial and Labyrinth theatre.
Baraka is also partner in various exchanges around Europe and not only with different youth and art organizations, and undertakes work within Human Rights Education Youth Network to promote and develop HRE.

Providing Complementary Education-Bringing a significant added value to the education provided by the universities.
Providing career support - Connecting students with their future employers.
Increasing educational involvement - Increasing the awareness of students on issues related to engineering education and improving engineering education through the input of those students.

REGIONAL INITIATIVES: FUMN initiated the creation of a network of Universities of the Black Sea is based on exchange of experience with Baltic University (Uppsalla) and Mediterranean University (Rome). A preparatory meeting and a constituent conference held jointly with the University of Constance whose rector, became the first president of the network was created BSUN.

As the association is just in its first year of effective activity, we can speak only about future projects :):
1. 'Rebranding Constanta' focuses on shaping the core identity values of Constanta city, as a multicultural area, together with the citizens and the authorities;
2. 'Speak Up!' focuses on creating Citizen Committees in each neaighborhood, to enable as many people as possible to speak up their minds related to the future of the region. These committees will be invited to the local council meetings and their opinions will be taken into consideration

- International activities
- Human Security Culture
- Research
- Education and Training
- Publishing

-Education for sustainable development has a key role in promoting behavioral changes and providing to citizens the key skills needed for achieving sustainable development. Our website and monthly newsletter will be the first sources of information on this topic.
-projects aimed at increasing public awareness and understanding about the challenges of sustainable development and the relationship with education.
-projects focused on solving environmental problems.
-positive actions in favour of socially excluded persons in order to facilitate their integration in the society and their access on the labour market.
-actions aimed at encouraging entrepreneuship and the social responsibility of enterprises
-formation in the field of new technologies.
-projects aimed at improving the managerial expertise in order to deal with the challenges of sustainable development.
-research in the field of sustainable development and dissemination of the results through seminars, workshops.
-consulting in the area of expertise of the members of the Association.
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