KULTURÁLIS ÉLETÉRT Közhasznú Egyesület

description of organisation

Our organization was established in 2002, and we have led the Mustárház Youth Information and Advisory Office in Nyíregyháza since 2005. This office keeps contact with the Municipality of Nyíregyháza about carrying out their task and implementing youth tasks. We were consultant to the city when they created the youth concept. We were also asked to expert on the youth concept of the county in 2013. We are charter members of the National Youth Council, permanent participant of the committee of municipality and territorial civil. Our Local and Territorial civil embeddedness is at a high level. We have spread experience on an international level, and we are members of a Middle- Europe youth professional network. (7 countries, 23 organizations). We organized a town-twinning meeting in 2008 supported by EACEA (5 cities), and thematic conferences (5 cities). We carried out a cultural pattern survey in 10 cities in 2010 also supported by EACEA. In 2012-2013 we carried out a youth professional exchange with our Romanian partner support as well EACEA. We accept EVS volunteers,and we have an accreditation for 11 people. A part of the project is to make a survey in 3 cities, wherein we research the youngsters’ cultural, civil and social habits. We have already done a survey in our county in 2012. Every survey we have done has been publicized as well in the form of publication, and those are also reachable on our webpage. We are the professional practice place of
the University of Nyíregyháza, so the Social worker and the Youth worker students can learn the framework of our organization in this field. Our organization bears the name For Cultural Life Nonprofit Organization.Our organization was founded in 2002.In Nyíregyháza,we operate a youth center,the Mustárház Youth Information and Advisory Office,in the framework of a task-order contract bound with the local government.Our organization is accredited to receive 11 European volunteers. We operate in the youth centre a terrestrial,small-community youth radio,MustárFM Radio,broadcasting 24 hours a day. In 2012,we established a Carpathian Basin youth professional cooperation,as well as an informal youth professional network across 12 countries for Active European citizenship.Our aim is to achieve activity,promote EU institutions,achievements,generate cooperation.We continuously participate in seminars,trainings,youth exchanges,democracy projects,so in the last period,we were in Germany and Italy for youth exchanges;in trainings/seminars in Romania,Italy and Belgium;in democracy projects in Romania and Germany and we have participated in a democracy project seminar in Ireland.In 2013,we implemented a 6-month youth worker exchange.We are members of NIT (National Youth Council),MIK (Hungarian Youth Conference),and members of the national policy working group of ISZEF (Youth Professional Conciliation Forum).In 2014 October,in the framework of a 24-month Capacity Building project,we implement a project in Vietnam;and in 2015 January,we implemented a 24-month Network of Towns project financed by the EACEA.We have so far implemented 50 winning projects in the YiA, E+ and Europe for Citizens programs. In 2009,we participated in a German youth exchange,in 2010,we organized a bilateral Hungarian-Polish youth exchange;in2011 we implemented a multilateral,Hungarian-Romanian-Italian-Turkish youth exchange;in 2012 we were partners in a German youth exchange and in 2013 in an Italian one.Over the years,we participated in several centrally-organized trainings: Brussels,Rome,Liverpool,Dublin;organized by our partners: Miercurea Ciuc,Baia Mare,Satu Mare.In the past 5 years,we organized 5 democracy projects,in which we were implementing 5-7 days structured dialogue project elements.From October 2014,we have been implementing a centrally funded Capacity Building project,in the framework of which we implement 1- 1 youth exchanges and trainings in Vietnam and Hungary.In April 2015,we organized an international training with the participation of 9 countries;and in June, we organized a youth exchange with the participation of 10 countries. In 2016 July and September, we organized two youth exchanges on the
topics of NEET young people and religious dialogue. Also in September 2016, our Network of Towns project and our Capacity Building project with Vietnam came to an end. In 2017, we participated in a double youth exchange in Serbia; and in Hungary as main organizers, we helped young people become entrepreneurs. Also as organizers, we implemented a youth exchange the topic of which was processing the past with the aim to achieve active European citizenship. In the spring of 2017, with the involvement of our 3 Town Twinning, we implemented a Central-European Youth Council,which was supported by EACEA in Brussels. Furthermore, in the autumn of 2017, a 26- month transnational collaboration started with our Romanian, Serbian and Austrian partners.

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