About Us

La Cosecha Comunicación

Spain

We understand communication as a participatory tool for social transformation, which is fundamental as a way to keep our communities alive and empowered. We want to provide a more sensitive and conscious vision in the transmission of social messages, building new codes, new narratives and new ways of relate with each other.

Some projects:

Participatory Video Workshops: Thinking, looking at and recreating our environment through audiovisuals as a proposal for social action to promote, carry out and disseminate decentralized audiovisual processes and products as tools for empowerment.

Clube Intercultural Europeu

Portugal

Clube Intercultural Europeu (Clube) is a non-profit association that was founded in 1998. The association works in the fields of youth, education, training, and employment.
More specifically, Clube’s projects have two dimensions:
community (local) with grassroots actions in priority
neighborhoods in Lisbon’s metropolitan area, and European (e.g.mobility) with projects in cooperation with European Union countries. This is done to promote the participation, empowerment, and social inclusion of children, young people, and adults in vulnerable situations, by enhancing their potential and using it as a resource/tool for change within the community and society.

Fondazione Emmanuel

Italy

Fondazione Emmanuel, based in Lecce (Italy), is an expression of Comunità Emmanuel which, since 1992 has dealt with reception, accompaniment, and social inclusion of people in risk of exclusion (migrants, unemployed, disabled people, minors, families, etc.).

All the initiatives developed during these years have as objective to promote solidarity, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, international cooperation, the non-violent solution to conflicts and Peace.

Recognising diversity in today’s world is a wealth and poverty has multidimensional aspects, we believe and improve the “OSMOSIS process” as an interchange, inter-dialogue between the different cultural and religious nuances of people.

The institutional task is to encourage and support people from Southern Italy, Southern Europe, and Southern World, creating possibilities and providing the right tools for the self-empowerment. Together we will promote Social Justice, Charity, Human rights and Christian mercy, in response to the social inequalities that afflicts the world, with particular attention to migrants and other populations, near and far, that more suffer the imbalances of the planet.

Fractals Educació Artística

Spain

Cultural association founded in 2017 to develop a project of social transformation through artistic education with the values of feminisms, interculturality and education for community development.

We articulate art, education and politics to transform the context into a more cohesive and equitable society. For this we develop participatory methodologies, network collaboration and care in Sankofa Espai Intercultural.

Intereuropean Human Aid Association

Greece

IHA was founded in September 2015 as a platform to coordinate volunteer efforts responding to humanitarian emergencies across the Balkan route. IHA has since developed into a volunteer-based organisation with a focus on Northern Greece, where it has a continuous presence since early 2016. We believe that Europe is not facing a refugee crisis but a crisis of solidarity and shared values. For us, the answer is taking humanitarian action – based in civil society and beyond national borders. We stand for a Europe that lives up to its own standards and puts human rights and dignity first.

We provide material, psychosocial and integrational support for asylum-seekers, refugees and people in need. Our warehouse supports thousands of refugees in Northern Greece with essential relief supplies through our network of partners across the region. Our community centre in Lagadikia is a space for learning, community building and cultural exchange. Its goals are to support the psychosocial wellbeing of the centre’s visitors, encourage integration and social inclusion, and foster relationships between new and already-established communities.

Texnodromo | Tεχνοδρομώ

Greece

The Non-Profit Association “Technodromo” was established by people of the arts with the common goal of applying the art of theater and, consequently, all other arts involved in it (dance, music, visual arts, etc.) in socially excluded groups. Theater in principle, as a process of

reating a role, presupposes the detection of our inner world and our primary emotions.

The internal processes and reactions to the external stimuli we receive. It also cultivates cooperation between people. It is, in short, a give and take with the world around us and within us. A means to find the path of self-knowledge and our social integration and conciliation, a window to the world. We strongly believe that art is something very useful for people who have found themselves on the sidelines of society (prisoners, immigrants, children under protection

and special living conditions, dependents, people with disabilities, etc.).

In our 14 years of operation we have gained significant experience in vulnerable and socially excluded groups. Through art (theatre, music, dance, visual arts) we work with the aim of activating the body, spirit and imagination of our beneficiaries so that they can be empowered to actively participate in communal and social life. Our main target groups are prisoners, homeless people, people with disabilities, immigrants and refugees. Our trainers and partners have developed the knowledge and flexibility to adapt their techniques in order to devise the proper approach. We also maintain a wide network of partners both in the artistic community (drama therapy, psychodrama, yoga, vocal) and the scientific community (psychologists,

psychiatrists, social workers).