Social Policy

WorldWideBlanket

WorldWideBlanket

Stockstadter Straße 55
63814 Mainaschaff
Germany

Telephone
+49 6150 5048291
E-Mail
bettlaken[at]worldwideblanket.de
Description of the Organization

WorldWideBlanket is a collection of Open Events to activate people creatively and emotionally. An Open Event, is a structure, of thoughts, opinions and experiences on the subject „living sustainable“.

EAPN - European Anti-Poverty Network

EAPN - European Anti-Poverty Network

Boulevard Bischoffsheim 11
1000 Brussels
Belgium

Telephone
+32 2 2265850
E-Mail
team[at]eapn.eu
Description of the Organization

Since 1990, EAPN has been an independent network of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and groups involved in the fight against poverty and social exclusion in the Member States of the European Union.

W3_ Workshop for International Culture and Politics

W3_ Workshop for International Culture and Politics

Nernstweg 32-34
22765 Hamburg
Germany

Telephone
+49 40 39033-65
E-Mail
info[at]w3-hamburg.de
Description of the Organization

The W3_ is an educational and cultural center around global justice. It offers a platform for encounters and exchange and, with its diverse program of events, encourages critical questioning of social conditions. It invites to inspiration, to experience, to reflection and to common action for a global and local justice.

With lectures, workshops, conferences, symposia, readings, performances as well as film screenings and actions, W3_ establishes the connection between local politics and global developments in series of events, projects as well as individual and cooperative events and motivates people to get involved. With dialogue-oriented/participative formats such as performances and actions in public space, spontaneous interactions with residents of the district are realized, which actively call for participation.

It is important to W3_ to focus on less present voices and alternative perspectives, to make them audible and visible, and to think and link local and global dimensions together. The goal is always to make people think, to provide inspiration and ideas for their own everyday lives, and to show options for action.

FCE - Foundation Caucasus Environmnet

FCE - Foundation Caucasus Environmnet

Krtsanisi I tup. N.3
0114 Tbilisi
Georgia

Telephone
+995 322722060
E-Mail
mdevidze[at]caucasus.net
Description of the Organization

Foundation Caucasus Environment (FCE) is founded in 1998 in Georgia. FCE is a nongovernmental, nonprofit public organization with professional staff on environment and education. The organization is oriented on sustainable development and social issues and its activities cover the Caucasus region. At the same time FCE is a member of several international networks, just like the National Platform of Eastern Partnership in Georgia https://eap-csf.ge and acts as a coordinator of Working Group 3 of this platform: https://eap-csf.ge/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=298&Itemid=1396&lang=en-GB.
Moreover FCE is a member of the big international network Women in Europe for common Future (WECF) WECF http://www.wecf.eu. Furthermore FCE coordinates the Global Education Week (GEW) of the network of North-South Centre (NSC) of Council of Europe https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/nscentre/GE/GEW-NETWORK_en.asp#TopOfPage.

The organization holds the GEW once a year in Georgia. The Global Education program in Georgia is updated every year according to the themes and comments which are developed at the GEW seminars. These seminars are organized by the NSC of the Council of Europe with participation of all national coordinators of GEW network. The organization’s target groups are schoolchildren and teachers, university students, lecturers, women groups, refugees and Itinerary Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the conflict areas of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The permanent staff of FCE is 7 person and about 50 volunteers (students, schoolchildren and teachers, women groups, farmers, fishermen scientists, etc). Donors of the granted projects are EU, USAID, Eurasia Foundation, different countries' embassies in Georgia, among others.

Some recent implemented projects are:

  1. "Integrated Hotspots Management and Saving the Living Black Sea Ecosystem HOT BLACK SEA", financed by EU BSB ENI CBC, 2013-2016; (team leader)
  2. "Identification, Management and Sustainable Usage of the Eutrophicated areas of the Black Sea Coastal Zone", financed by UNEP GEF SGP (the project coordinator) https://www.facebook.com/foundationcaucasusenvironment, 2014-2015
  3.   "Strenghening the Women Action for Sustainable Energy Development in Gali and Zugdidi Regions of Conflict areas of Abkhazi"

FIS - Fairtrade Initiative Saarbrücken

FIS - Fairtrade Initiative Saarbrücken
c/o Peter Weichardt / Heike Zimmermann

Schumannstrasse 34
66111 Saarbrücken
Germany

Telephone
+49 6893 801855
E-Mail
info[at]faires-saarbruecken.de
Description of the Organization

FAIR for all generations FAIR education - Our campaigns are aimed at schools, kindergartens and day-care centres (Kitas), extracurricular actors in the greater Saarbrücken area and Saarland University. Several "Fair Kitas", "Fairtrade Schools" and "Fairtrade Universities" from the greater Saarbrücken area have already been awarded. School classes and courses from the Saarbrücken region have already received the award "Fair School Class - Fair Trade Class" more than 100 times. Through our young "Fair Trade Ambassadors" as multipliers and through our wide-ranging commitment, we reach a broad public. The guiding principle of our network is Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).

Partner countries

Friedenskreis Halle e. V.

Friedenskreis Halle e. V.

Große Klausstraße 11
06108 Halle (Saale)
Germany

Telephone
+49 345 279807-10
E-Mail
info[at]friedenskreis-halle.de
Description of the Organization

The experience of the peaceful "Wende" in 1989 awakened in many people the hope that a Germany without a military could be possible. This hope led people from various civil initiatives in Halle together to found the Friedenskreis in 1990. The Friedenskreis Halle e.V. is an group of people of differing world views, religions, nationalities and political affiliations. We see peace not as a state of being or as a distant goal, and not simply as the absence of war. Peace is for us a means to a common, just and non-violent life together in diversity, where the personal development and liberty of the individual is made possible. The conception of this life together is always a new experience. This is why we try to explore, find and pass on new ways of doing so, while never forgetting to question the same. We are consequently involved in education, peace-associated activities and in projects for civil conflict resolution on both the domestic and international levels. Our work is made possible by paid and voluntary staff and carried through donations and public subsidies. Our current programme and projects

  • Seminars and educational programmes in the areas of communication, conflict resolution, mediation, dealing with violence and learning how to speak out
  • Consulting for initiatives and projects
  • Lectures and seminars on current peace-associated themes
  • Civil conflict resolution through the development of an educational and encounter centre in Jajce, Bosnia.
  • Work camps, youth encounters and volunteer work in the countries of the Balkans.
  • Counselling on military service and conscientious objection
  • Cooperation in activities and campaigns against militarisation
  • Coordination of the initiative "Zivilcourage: Bündnis für Gewaltlosigkeit, Demokratie und Toleranz in Halle"