Partners

EUROPEAN CULTURAL EPICENTER, North Macedonia

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EUROPEAN CULTURAL EPICENTER Bitola (ECE) is a non-profit organization based in Bitola, Macedonia founded in 2012 and run by a group of young and energetic professionals who have been designing, implementing and evaluating local and international youth projects over the last 5 years’ being active inEuropean projects.
FIELDS OF ACTIVITY
The implementation goes through diverse learning opportunities such as Training Courses, seminars, workshops, study visits, youth exchanges, and other formats with local, regional, national, European and other international partners in the fields of: civic youth and adult education; environmental and outdoor youth and adult education; cultural youth and adult education; intercultural youth and adult education; social youth and adult education; health and well-being; media pedagogic youth and adult education.

NEW HORIZONS, Italy

NEW HORIZONS is an Italian non-profit organization founded in 2016 dedicated to promoting social development and cultural preservation for the territory and bridging the local population to the dynamic world outside by means of education and training, information service, and international cooperation.It is founded and run by a group of young professionals who are designing and implementing national and international youth projects. New Horizons is currently member of ANNE, a pan-European network of 7 European organizations and, at local level, member of CESV Messina (The Italian Voluntary Service Centre), a large public umbrella organization for NGOs.
MISSION
NEW HORIZONS sets the target to work with people from disadvantaged socio-economical status, especially youths of migrant background as these group make up a sizeable part of the population in the region. Simultaneously, New Horizons has warm rapport with local authority (the Municipality of Tusa), local SMEs and NGOs, in order to obtain a firm base of support for our projects and target youth. 

EDU COMPASS FOUNDATION, Bulgaria

The Edu Compass Foundation was founded in 2015 as a NGO by a team of professionals in the field of coaching, personal development and educational management. Our main activities include development of career orientation programs for youth, career orientation and development services and participation in educational tech startup core teams. We support young individuals to build a career they love by improving their goal setting skills and success mindset. By sharing our unique educational methodologies and career orientation approaches we also help teachers and educators to be more effective in their work. 
Edu Compass foundation is a team of highly committed to social change, equality and social integration individuals. We have dedicated our lives to education, social change, inclusion and supporting youth leadership and entrepreneurship. We come together to fulfill the mission of supporting each young individual from any social class and ethnicity to fulfill its potential and create a stable and peaceful society. We mainly do that trough career orientation and career coaching services and youth training. 

KIPEPEO COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM, Kenya

Kipepeo Community Empowerment Program (KCEP) is a Community Based, Non-Profit and Non-Governmental initiated in October 2009 to help spearhead community driven development initiatives and enable needy groups participate in integrated activities to achieve quality livelihood and be self-sustainable. KCEP delivers its activities through the power and spirit of volunteerism approach to build sustainable communities / intercultural exchange and thriving villages in our country.
Our main purpose is promote youth employment and information exchange among Kenyans and international communities, youth mobility, social inclusion, community development, promotion of peace among our diverse communities, understanding and unity of purpose.
Our mission is to improve the quality of life of the local communities through sustainable local development initiatives in Kenya.

ORISSA STATE VOLUNTEERS AND SOCIAL WORKERS ASSOCIATION , India

The association was founded and promoted by a group of eminent freedom fighters, social reformers and activists with the ideology of promoting volunteerism, grass root voluntary action and people-centred development with the twin concept of ‘Development through Participation’ and ‘Development through Sustainability’. OSVSWA, as a change agent and in the Social Change Process, has been consistently working since its inception with strict adherence to the principle and ideologies as thrust upon by the founders by initiating voluntary and social action based on Gandhian Philosophy of community development.
Vision: To meaningfully contribute as a federator and catalyst in the social change process towards a just, peaceful, empowered, functional, harmonious and sustainable human society. We are dedicatedly working to bring long lasting positive impacts on the livelihood and life of the underprivileged, women, children, youth and the isolated people in their all-round development. We work to bring an impactful change in the civil society through our technology driven research and innovation, and promote and activate volunteerism and voluntary action in all spheres of societal development.

OPENM Corp (OpenM), Vietnam

OpenM, a Vietnamese social enterprise was founded in 2016 as a result of EYES which was a capacity building project funded by European Commission in 2015. Our main product is English training for entrepreneurs and people who are working in Vietnam. At least 51% of our annual revenue will be reinvested to community activities.
We chose 3 main fields to work on: livelihood solutions, environment and vocational training for vulnerable groups, especially focus on women and children. In October 2017 OpenM was among 25 social enterprises that created impact to the community which recognized by CSIP (Centre for Social Initiatives Promotion) and VCCI (Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry).
With the vision of building an eco-system for entrepreneurs and startup owners, OpenM prioritizes in educational and supporting social activities.