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ISPRI edits and prints two of its own journals: Journal of Political Science and International Relations (www.revista.ispri.ro) and Romanian Journal of Political Science and International Relations (www.journal.ispri.ro). These two magazines continue, since 2004, the series of the Revue de Teorie Socială and the Revue Roumaine de Théorie Sociale in new formats and with an enriched theme. ISPRI has its own Publishing House accredited by CNCSIS, established by the Decision of the Ministry of Culture no. 1835 of February 25, 1993 (www.librarie.ispri.ro). ISPRI has a rich Library containing 300,000 titles (approximately one million volumes) in the field of socio-human and political sciences.

In order to achieve its goal, the activities of the Association are:
a) Professional development, training and improvement in the cultural, social, youth area.
b) Increasing access and participation of citizens in cultural life;
c) Organizing cultural events
d) Creative Workshops (hand made and design), and cultural events on topics
e) Introductory courses in drama and acting
f) Organizing events to support Human Rights
g) Develop educational materials, magazines, brochures, books and leaflets etc.
h) Facilitating cross-border dialogue and cooperation on human rights and cultural life
i) Organization of courses, seminars, conferences, campaigns, round tables, symposiums, parties, receptions, book launches, plays
j) Establishing of theater troupes, mime troupes and puppeteers.

- Studii despre sclavia moderna si traficul de persoane din Romania si din regiunea Euro-med -Traininguri de formare a tinerilor specialisti - Studii privind viata religioasa, interculturala din Romania - Barometru Securitatii Energetice

LARICS shall consist of a group of experts (Council of Experts) that will produce, based on raw materials supplied and published on the portal www.lacrisro, analyses or editorials dedicated to the phenomenon. LACRIS appeals to those interested (institutions, individuals, etc.) to support and join our project. We are open and promote partnerships and collaboration with other institutions or individuals who share the same concerns. We also wish a fruitful effective partnership with the press in Romania and Republic of Moldova for the dissemination of our research results to a wider public.

The entire activity is dedicated to support the youth offering a proper conditions for education and learning, for access to science and culture, national and international values, promoting the human right and peace.
In the same time our programs are dedicated to all other age categories with the declared purpose to offer equal chances to information and education, to develop the capacity to act and react, to be involved on local, national and regional level by partnership and communication, to develop the associative behaviour and volunteer stimulation.
We did perform:
• languages training: English, French, Italian, Spanish
• management training (general management, project management, quality management, stress and time management, conflict management, team building, negotiation handling, ethics in business);
• organizational communication and intercultural education
• training in safety matters: protection of people and property, Intellectual Property Protection
• peace education, post – conflict peace building process
• arts: theatre, painting and photography
• visual arts, decorative design
• entrepreneurship education
• ecological education
• leadership, law and diplomacy
• human rights, racism, migration, youth trafficking prevention
• transforming violence
• spiritual perspectives of globalization: religion and global culture
• Enlargement of European Union, Stability Pact
• Local sustainable development
Our main projects focus on:
• Seminar on Intercultural Business Culture, 2009
• Day of Tolerance in High- schools of Galati and Bucharest, 2008
• Education in Human Rights – Malta 2007
• Information and presentation of our report on UN Session in Geneva, 2006
• Education in HR and youth trafficking prevention of students, parents, teachers, 2005-2006
• Leadership, law and diplomacy in solving conflicts, 2005
• Transforming violence, solving and mediation the conflicts, 2005
• Peace education, post – conflict peace building process in Balkans, 2005
• Assessment of entrepreneurial skills of the high – school graduates (2003-2005).
• Globalization and Regional Partners (2004)
• Professional and career orientation, education in HR and youth trafficking prevention of students, parents, teachers (2003)
• The importance of professional training to find and keep a job (2003)
• Leadership – leaders of new millennium (2003)
• Pictures on pollution themes – Special Award of the Regional Jury/2001-2002

The difference we make in the Romanian landscape stems from our programs being tailor-made for our public in an attempt to keep them as effective and enticing as possible. For instance, we have developed a program called ‘Communication through creative dancing which aims to enable young people to match the accuracy of their language (both verbal and non-verbal) with their inner self.

Nevo Parudimos association has a big expertise in the flowing fields:
- Education – promoting education in the rural areas, poor communities and in Roma communities, work with the parents, training for teachers and development of afterschool activities for the kids in order to increase the interest of the kids for the school. In this field, we are working very close to schools, with school mediators and teachers but also with the parents of those kids. We have developed a website which promotes education and gives information for the youngsters about scholarships and educational programs of the institutions, Universities and NGO’s – www.aceslaeducatie.ro This website was developed in the project “Education, a chance for the future” founded by the youth in action program. Also in the project “Second chance a new chance” we have developed two manuals with best practices for teachers that develop activities  after school, summer kindergarten, second chance education, extra scholastic activities. www.a2sansa.ro . In this field since 3 years we are running a day center were the kids from a ghetto community from Resita (Mociur) are making homework’s for school and having each day a meal.
- Working with adults: the work with adults of Nevo Parudimos have two dimensions: we offer training’s and capacity building activities for the Roma adults from the local communities from Caras Severin county( Nevo Parudimos it’s accredited to train adults by the Ministry of Labor and Education on more fields), we offer support and assist Roma communities in the mobilization and representation process at local level in our Region( we created together with the representatives of the Roma communities more initiative groups which later were transformed in NGO’s and also we created in Resita a structure named Inclusion Hub where beside the Roma communities also NGO’s and institutions are part). At the same time Nevo Parudimos since 4 years deliver trainings for Roma community members and NGO’s to capacitate them to understand better the Leader program and the CLLD approach and to be part of the planning and implementation of this process.
- Youth work with Roma youth and inclusion: starting from 2010 we have implemented until now 4 youth in action projects “Roma Youth European Youth”, “Roma Youth European Youth 2”, “Roma Youth European Youth 3 - Evaluation” and “Roma youth – European Youth 4”, projects in which together with our international partners (18 partners) we developed a guide “9 steps in working whit Roma youngsters” which offer information’s and present different working methods to be used during the work with Roma youngsters in different projects. Also during all our youth projects until now we have built two play grounds for the kids from the Roma neighborhood, we offered the possibility to take part to youth exchanges for 428 youngsters in the last two years majority of them coming from a disadvantage background and Roma youngsters and 36 youth workers and volunteers took part to international trainings from our partners. In the last two years we have implemented 7 Erasmus + 4 exchanges, two multi-measure projects and one EVS, all related to inclusion and Roma youngsters. Also we have a very developed youth department which involves more than 100 youngsters from all the Caras-Severin area. In this field, we assisted different youth groups to organize and develop activities and we supported the funding of 6 youth NGO’s in our area.
- Voluntary work (local and EVS)  in the past years, we have developed more projects which promotes volunteering. The most important ones are “For a kid smile - rehabilitation of the child section of the municipal Hospital from Caransebes” nominated as finalist to Erste Stiftung Social Inclusion Projects Award; Rehabilitation of the child section of the County hospital from Resita were two projects that promoted social inclusion of the Roma people using as a method the voluntary work. Another important project that promoted voluntary work and inclusion is “Volunteering for all” project which was founded by the youth in action program and which has as result founding a youth voluntary NGO called Volunteering for all.
Regarding EVS, we hosted 14 EVS volunteers between 204 – 2016  in 2 projects: Volunteers for Education and Be responsible, be green!, nowadays having in implementation 3 EVS projects, each for 2 years long, where we host 10 volunteers per project (5 per year), in total 30 volunteers. The projects are:
Volunteering and Education for Civic Involvement 20173-RO01-KA105-046973 (2017 – 2019) – 10 volunteers - https://nevoparudimos.ro/projects/volunteeringand-education-for-civic-in...
Volunteering for a smile 2018 – 1 – RO01 – KA125 – 048993 (2018 – 2020) – 10 volunteers https://nevoparudimos.ro/projects/volunteeringfor-a-smile/?lang=en
V for Volunteering 2018 – 2 RO01 – KA125-049941 (January 2019 – December 2020)
Additional, we are partners in the Strategic EVS Yes to volunteering 2017 - 3 - DE04 - KA135 – 015832 (2018 – 2020) – where we host 2 volunteers from Germany https://nevoparudimos.ro/projects/yes-to-volunteering/?lang=en
As a sending organization, in the past 4 years we sent over 15 volunteers in different European countries.
We also started hosting volunteers coming with the French Civic Service – in the past 4 years we host 5 volunteers from France.
- Remembrance of the Roma Holocaust: since 4 years ago we started in organizing together with ternYpe and Phiren Amenca, two Roma international youth networks commemoration events for Roma and non Roma youngsters were we promote the recognition of the Roma holocaust and the education for remembrance. The most important result of this partnerships is the fact that in 2014 we brought together 1000 youngsters (200 from Romania) Roma and non Roma from 25 countries which took part in the event “Dikh he na bister” (www.2august.eu) and learn about Roma holocaust. This activity is now part of our yearly working plan. The event repeat itself in 2016, when we brought together more than 80 young participants from Romania, Roma and non roma (in total there were 380 participants) and in 2017 when we brought together 12 Romanian Roma in an international group of 200 participants.
- Fight agaist discrimination exclusion and marginalization – our NGO since the funding had as main aim to reduce the bariers between people. Until now we have implmented more projects in which we promote participation to education to youth work to community life of the Roma communities empowering, training and sharing with them experience about how to do that. Also we were part of the Wall free Europe campaign – a campaign which fight for the removal of walls and raising awareness of increasing antigypsyist and racist sentiments in Europe, especially the ones surrounding the Roma communities.
- Refugee and migrants – starting October 2016, Nevo Parudimos is partner in 2 KA2, Understanding Europe and Network of refugees, projects which aim to offer a better welcoming of the migrants in Romania, all participating countries and in Europe, by creating curricula especially for them to understand the country and the continent they came and how to live here, in the same time they learn the language of the country they are living. On the other hand, through this projects we are tackling the issues concerning the situation of migrants and refugees in our countries, identifying and sharing best practice examples of inclusion and integration at European level.  The outputs and more information can be found on the official webistes of the projects: https://www.understandingeurope.eu/ and https://networkingrefugees.wordpress.com/
- Nevo Parudimos Youth Center – opened since november 2018, the youth center is coordinated together with EVS volunteers, having as main goal the development of social, cultural and artistic activities with and for the disadvantaged youth in Resita Municipality ( a city with 80.000 inhabitants). The youth center offer the oppotunity to self-development to the young people one one hand, on another hand it creates a safe space for EVS volunteers to learn and practice non – ofrmal education methods for their proffesional development. https://www.facebook.com/groups/292541668265108/
- Marabu Camp – in partnership with a private company we developed a youth camp that hosts educational activities in Milcoveni, Romania. The camp can host 50 people, offering full board, and in the last two years hosted 26 events all related with Erasmus plus program, trainings or exchanges that promotes inclusion, environmental protection, citizenship and human rights education.

MentorshipNET- Knowladge Sharing Network. A online platform for young people and young professionals. It's main purpose is to contribute to the professional development of the members of the platform through seminars, conferences, workshops, summer camps.

Public debate – „The educational reform. What was to be done?”
This was the first events organized by us. As the educational process concerned every ones, we thought that it is to invite public representatives, teachers and students to debate about the thing that had to be done in this domain.
The debate was also an opportunity for us to become known to the public and the authorities as a new organization and to give out our objectives. It was the time we first met our future partners.Public  debate –„What chances has today`s youth?
Organized as a part of The Mehedinti Youth’s Forum, this event had to be an opportunity for interested youth from our county to expose and seek solution for their current problems. We gathered together representatives of the City Council, the County Council, universities and private companies.Training course Fundraising for youth NGO`s.
Based on our partners’ experience, we organized this course for our volunteers. Mod of life association, „SPEO ALPIN MH” Association and the “Floarea de colţ” Association shared a bit of their experience in the field of fundraising.Public campaign –„Young people in the European integration context”.
Thought as a way to inform youngsters about the opportunities offered by the E.U. integration, this media  campaign was although another way to involve more and more the target group (students, young people) in the civic activities.„The NGO` s management” training course.
This course graduated by 30 people has been developed in cooperation with the local branch of The National Youth Agency. It was an opportunity for both our and the others NGO’ volunteers to gain few things from the wide experience of the National Youth Agency’s representatives.

Photo Romania Festival is our main project. Every spring it gathers hundreds of photographers from more than 20 countries and thousands of photography and art lovers in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. During the festival there are organized around 30 photo exhibitions, 15 photo contest, 15 outdoor events and a 5-10 photo contests.
Every autumn we organize small version of the festival (1-2 days) in different cities around the country with the aim to promote and sustain the main festival.
Beside this we organize different cultural project that aims to support the development of young photographers and to promote their work, both at national an international level.