Asociatia CPDIS

Roumanie

Asociatia CPDIS is a non-profit organization founded in the fall of 2012 with the aim of promoting understanding and cooperation between people. Pursuing this aim, we encourage and promote all those initiatives that, in terms of solidarity and on the cultural-educational field, allow the interchange of ideas among different cultures, favour the easing of economic imbalances and promote the creation of a true culture of universality and peace. Among these actions, there is a reflection on consumerism, interculture and peace with non-formal education methodologies.  Our staff got their competences and experience through the non-formal education and learning methods. Also in our team are more people who have graduated the management and economics bachelor degree. Our project team has these skills and expertise and experiences:
- Networking for youth education activities,
- Promoting of youths at entrepreneurship,
- Sharing experiences,
- Creating educational materials together,
- Promoting a good communication between project partners and related organisations
- Disseminating the results very actively

We are working with young people with fewer opportunities and have good practical experience integrating them in our projects. Many of our international events take place in rural areas where we include marginalized youth like unemployed young people, young people from geopgrahically isolated areas and young people with a hard social background (orphans, from broken families, with immigrant background, etc).
Asociatia CPDIS has youth workers with solid practical experience concerning all the aspects of the project cycle in a youth exchange: need assessment, proposal writing, implementation, evaluation, follow-up activities, reporting. Such key-staff can help the applicant organization in whatever aspects they see fit.

Some of our other priorities include:
- Establishment and facilitation of socially beneficial activities, having a direct and indirect impact on developing the youth potential.
- Helping the youth in their efforts to formulate a complete, long-term and sustainable vision for the development of young people in Romania.
- Development of unpopular tourist destinations in Romania and popularization of Romania historical and cultural heritage among the young people.

Our main activities are:
- educational activities (educational projects in schools and on an extra-curricular basis throughout a non-formal education method focused on active citizenship, European conscience, against racism and xenophobia, human rights principles);
- cultural events (conference, seminars, cineforum, concerts, art exhibitions);
- intercultural activities (programs and projects for youth mobility, education on international topics, promotion of different cultures in Romania and abroad, welcome activities of tourists and foreigners, promotion of Erasmus+ Programme);
- Territorial promotion (promotion of its typical aspects, its artists, tourism, sport activities)
- The mission of education activities consists of providing non-formal education opportunities for young people involving as many as possible, and trying always to widen our reach.

https://cpdis.ro/