TEMPSCHOISI – Coordinator – Champigny-sur-Marne – France : The association TEMPSCHOISI is informally born in 1986, with the ambition of connecting individuals and groups working to build a community of solidarity and responsibility.
From this experience are followed two priorities:
Now we have taken the past experience with a new formula of the association which has become an Adult Education Center (2014).
The organisation is involved in many different activities in 2 main sectors: Art and Heritage and Civic Engagement.
The Legal representative Sylvain Solaro is also a municipal councilor with delegation to local heritage management.
The NGO organizes events and training activities in collaboration with public and private institutions in Champigny-sur- Marne. All along the year we collaborate with public primary and secondary schools for the development of workshops on the themes of cultural heritage and active citizenship.
It promotes local initiatives in the town, to promote artists, socio-cultural organizations and solidarity actions.
The organization has in its statute the following principle and activities:
- Promotion of the values of active citizenship, through group works, events, socio-cultural campaigns.
- Development of training for adults and young to develop creativity through the practice of the visual and performative arts.
- Collaboration with schools, youth and adult organizations to promote social and cultural initiatives, through art workshops.
- Supporting arts and cultural centers in the town.
- Creation of photo and video workshops, performative arts initiatives linked with social and cultural themes.
- Supporting the creation of nets of actors in the town for the taking care of local heritage and the dissemination of the principle and values of the Faro Convention.
Italia Nostra Castiglione del Lago – Castiglione del Lago – Italy : The Italia Nostra was born on 29 October 1955. For many years the cultural activities organized by Italia Nostra have contributed to spreading the « culture of conservation » of the urban and rural landscape, and of the cultural and environmental heritage in the country.Italia Nostra has always considered the education and training on the issues of the landscape, environment and cultural heritage to be strategic in the belief that, only what is known can be protected and valued. Our section is active sine 2003. Heritage, landscape, active citizenship, social equity and entertainment are the keywords of the projects and competitions proposed by Italia Nostra, at national and local level. Every year our section organizes training for adults and teachers on the use of Heritage for social inclusion, and competitions between schools in our region.We are among the promoter of the net of Faro Trasimeno, a recognized NGO who operates for hte promotion of the values of the Faro convention. We have experience on the organization of training and cultural activities related to the prmotion and use of heritage as social tool, like:- Campaign for the protection the city walls > municipalities and local communities collaborated for the restoring and protection of the ancient city wall, in our case we are talking about Etruscan city walls. – Cultural heritage week > from heritage walks to guided tours, extraordinary openings or maintenance, conferences and information gazebos, online events and dissemination with films. The object of these actions is often that minor cultural heritage that risks oblivion and abandonment but there are also industrial archeology sites, parks and individual movable cultural assets, such as altarpieces and sculptures. – Alla ricerca dei beni comuni >Training activities and participated project workshops for the communities, identifying concrete actions to support processes of safeguarding and conservation of common goods.
Asociatia Culturala ARTEC – Craiova- Romania :
Asociatia Culturala ARTEC is a non-governmental, non-profit organization, independent, and focused on education training and culture that have social and humanitarian purposes, working with young people in various fields.
Our activities that are based on a set of values developed across time are, enforced by our experienced team: multiculturalism, volunteering, tolerance, personal development, teamwork. From the beginning, we have aimed at creating concrete opportunities for young and adult people in order to develop and adapt themselves to current and future challenges.
We are one of the main actors working in the field of culture and youth in Dolj County, in the South-West of Romania.
In this association we develop various cultural, social and civic activities, many educational actions for young people regarding arts and culture. We organize activities that support volunteering, games, exhibitions, workshops and other events on the selected topics.
The association aims at developing programs and projects each year towards integration of people from different cultural backgrounds, with fewer opportunities or disabilities. Through the projects initiated we desire to offer a chance to integrate these social groups of youngsters and adults and to facilitate an active dialogue with young people from other European countries
We have initiated over the past years numerous projects that promote social inclusion, encouragement of entrepreneurship, intercultural education and cultural heritage, international exchanges between adults and young people, we involved young and adult Roma, young people with disabilities. We cooperate in our projects with the local community having partnership agreements for the implementation of numerous actions with organizations and public institutions of culture or training such as: NGOs, schools, House of Culture Traian Demetrescu, Museum of History, New Horizons-Family Association, Craiova Immigrant Centre.
ASBL Dinant Creative Factory – Dinant – Belgium
DCF is a 6 years old non-profit organization whose main goals are to train and support young artists to develop their professional activity and that in a heritage environment, castle, old brewery, church, gardens, museum.
The association is under the leading of a Board of 6 volunteers + the president (artistic director), with specific expertise in management, finances, social aspects, communication etc.
We collaborate to the Dinant International Sax Festival, to artistic performances (act and performative arts) about the medieval history of Dinant, with more than 80 people involved in each project. We also support writers and musicians, painters, stylists… organizing public event, most of the time with free access but bringing fees to the artists.
We cooperate with our Municipality and other local organizations for the realization of the international Sax Festival and numerous events to promote our regional heritage (Medieval Museum, Citadel, Caves, Parks and Natural Sites.
The NGO and its associates/volunteers has an important experience about community events, cultural, social but also charity and awareness events in different fields, first of all cultural and historical heritage but also natural heritage (wild rivers, parks and sites).The long collaboration with museums, parks, private and public entities made DCF one of the most important actors in the community of Dinant. We organize concerts, readings, hunting cultural games, community and social theatre plays. We provide training courses also on media for heritage and heritage gaming, in these fields the main target groups are operators of public and private museums, employees in public entities who are working in the field of heritage, various artists.
The President, Bruno Mathelart is an expert in lifelong training, working all his life in non-profit associations, schools and adult contexts. Director of 3 theatre companies, for teenagers and adults with many plays on historical a heritage subjects.
