Latin America

AFS - Intercultural Exchanges Netherlands

Name of the Organization
AFS - Intercultural Exchanges Netherlands
Contact

Hoofdkantoor
Hendrik Consciencestraat 52
2800 Mechelen
Belgium

Telephone
+31 85 0471525
E-Mail
info[at]afs.nl
Description of the Organization

AFS is an international NGO with one of the largest volunteer networks worldwide. AFS offers opportunities for intercultural learning, the chance to develop the knowledge and skills to build a more peaceful and just
world.

AFS Nederland gives Dutch High School students the opportunity to attend High School abroad, live with a host family and learn about a culture for a semester or a year. And for students from all over the world to come to the Netherlands, to stay with host families who open their hearts and homes to learn about different cultures. We also offer programs for people 18 to 25, they get the chance to spend 6 months doing volunteer work abroad. AFS is one of the leading international organisations in the field of intercultural learning and offers exchange programs worldwide, to its more than 60 partner countries. All partner organisations have a volunteer network which is their main support, a professional staf and a volunteer board.

Unité - Swiss Association for the Exchange of Persons in International Cooperation

Name of the Organization
Unité - Swiss Association for the Exchange of Persons in International Cooperation
Contact

Rosenweg 25
CH-3007 Bern
Switzerland

Telephone
+41 31 3811219
E-Mail
info[at]unite-ch.org

(wlp)° - the world lecture project

Name of the Organization
(wlp)° - the world lecture project
Contact

Reichenberger Straße 98
10999 Berlin
Germany

Telephone
+49 30 69519044
E-Mail
info[at]world-lecture-project.org
Description of the Organization

(wlp)° - the world lecture project is an online library for video lectures in any language and of any faculty from all over the world. The project is collecting all links to video lectures and their meta data in one freely accessible database. A search engine helps the users to find the lecture of their choice easily. They can search lectures according to various criteria: theme, faculty, country, language and others. Everyone can contribute to broadening (wlp)°'s lecture fund. Once registered it is easy to put new lectures onto the data base or to complete the data of the lectures that are already available. (wlp)° is looking for partners across the globe who contribute in facilitating the exchange and the access of knowledge for everyone – everywhere. The World Academy of Young Scientists (WAYS) and Young-People Platform in Agricultural Research (YPARD) for Development are already collaborating with (wlp)°.

Arch Project

Name of the Organization
Arch Project
Additional info
Johannes Peschke
Contact

An der Trave 34a
23795 Bad Segeberg
Germany

Telephone
+49 4551 9080572
E-Mail
kontakt[at]archeprojekt.de
Description of the Organization

Extracurricular education partner for schools and kindergartens in global learning in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Mecklenburg Vorpommern and Lower Saxony

UWC - United World Colleges Germany

Name of the Organization
UWC - United World Colleges Germany
Department/Institute
German UWC Foundation
Contact

Linienstraße 151
10115 Berlin
Germany

Telephone
+49 30 47374757
E-Mail
stiftungsbuero[at]uwc.de
Description of the Organization

Students from over 120 different nations, aged 16 to 19, selected exclusively on the basis of aptitude (talent, commitment, motivation), live and learn together at one of the thirteen United World Colleges for the last two school years until they graduate from high school. The colleges are located in Wales, Norway, Italy, USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, the Netherlands, Swaziland, Venezuela, Costa Rica and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Georg-August University Göttingen, IAI

Name of the Organization
Georg-August University Göttingen, IAI
Department/Institute
IAI - Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research
Contact

Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3
Oeconomicum II/99
37073 Göttingen
Germany

Telephone
+49 551 398172
E-Mail
uwia[at]gwdg.de

Office of information Nicaragua

Name of the Organization
Office of information Nicaragua
Contact

Deweerthstraße 8
42107 Wuppertal
NW
Germany

Telephone
+49 202 300030
E-Mail
info@infobuero-nicaragua.org
Description of the Organization

The office of information Nicaragua is one of the oldest organizations of the Nicaraguan solidarity movement. The history of the office of information was until the 90s closely related with the economyof the solidarity movement to Central America and especially to Nicaragua. Today our work concentrates on the area of development education  and information for Latin America and on thecooperation and support of base initiatives in Nicaragua. We provide information, publish publications, provide educational materials, maintain a third world archive, mediate examiners, organize visits with Latin-American activists and organize actions, series of events, school workshops and seminars. Within the framework of several projects educational materials were developed on subjects like economy, migration, climate change and environmental justice, human rights and social movements as well as colonialism and racism. Besides the educational materials we also offer disseminator courses. For several years we also offer successful workshops on the above mentioned subjects for young people . We use interactive and participative exercises of global learning, so that young people can approach appropriately to the subject of the workshops. Moreover we refer to the interests and experiences of the participants and put a main focus on the learning. Our work focuses on fun, the connections with the life and reality of young people, reflection as well as the ability to own judgment and action.