Center for Sustainable Community Development 
Giubega – DJ – ROMANIA – www.cdcd.ro – office@cdcd.ro

Call for partners for the youth exchange

Stories, books and libraries
Action 3.1 Youth in Action 
Planned for July 2011, Craiova, Romania 

About CSCD:
- The Association – Center for Sustainable Community Development (CSCD) is an apolitical, autonomous, non-profit and non-governmental association, working as an informal group since 2008 and being officially legislated in 2010.
The aim of the association – developing and implementing cultural, artistic and educational  activities aiming at community development and also contributing to the social and personal development of its main target group – the youngsters from the rural and urban areas, youngsters with fewer opportunities and the isolated communities – providing capacity building support.
(1)   CSCD Objectives:
General Objectives:
1.	Providing humanitarian help for the children and youngsters with special needs.
2.	Creating and providing better conditions for the youngsters and children with special social needs or challenged youngsters.
3.	Social and school reinsertion for the youngsters and children coming from difficult socio – economic background.
4.	Information and support guaranteeing human rights and social protection for the groups in need.
5.	Promoting and supporting the equal opportunities concept and active communitarian participation.
6.	Developing and implementing programmes for youngsters with special needs.
7.	Supporting adults in their professional reinsertion process.
8.	Implementing local, national and international projects aiming at providing better opportunities for its target group.
9.	Support for the cultural, artistic and creative activities in the working communities.
Specific Objectives:
1.	Identifying and supporting the cases – youngsters and children with special needs – from orphanages, hospitals, mono- parental families and families facing socio-economic problems.
2.	Developing and implementing educational and support programmes for the youngsters from the rural and urban areas.
3.	Educational counseling for the target group.
4.	Supporting gifted children with fewer opportunities – independent to their talents.
5.	Establishing partnerships with associations, networks and organizations with the same profile – national and international actors.
6.	Implementing activities and services aiming at improving the financial sustainability of the association.
7.	Developing and implementing national, local and European programmes and projects

Stories, books and libraries is a youth exchange aiming at promoting human rights and equal treatment using the living library method as a tool. The exchange mainly targets youngsters with fewer opportunities, youngsters who are also eager to share their stories and to be the BOOKs of the exchange.
The exchange has the following objectives:
-	Promoting human rights and equal treatment within the participants’ group
-	Raising youngsters’ awareness upon the importance of human rights
-	Sharing stories of discrimination and unequal treatment using an innovative method – the living library
-	Promoting 2011’s priorities and the YiA’s opportunities
-	Creating a network of young ‘Books’ and booklet with their stories
-	Facilitating networking within the participant NGOs.

The partners’ and participants’ profile
!The partners will be selected on the criteria of involving youngsters with fewer opportunities and youngsters with special needs – at least 2 participants per group. 
! Participants profile – youngsters with fewer opportunities and youngsters victims of marginalization and of social stigmatization due to different reasons…

Financial cons: 
The travel costs will be 70% reimbursed during the exchange.
The meals, accommodation and visa costs will be 100% covered. 

The application procedure:
The partners interested into the exchange are kindly asked to send a short description of their NGO and of the way they will be involving youngsters with fewer opportunities and also the type of special needs / opportunities these youngsters are having.
In the same e-mail, the partners are kindly asked to specify the travel costs from their home location to Bucharest and back.

The scanned part III available at the end of the document should be provided to:
Adina_marina_85@yahoo.com and marianancuta@yahoo.com by the 17th of January.

Also, the original form of the partners accepted as promoters should reach Romania by the 1st of February and should be provided to the following address:

To: Adina Marina Calafateanu
Bd. Ramnicu Sarat, nr. 25, Bloc 11 A, sc. A , ap 13
Sector 3
Bucuresti
ROMANIA

Thank you for the cooperation and looking forward to see you in Romania!
CSCD’s Team

Part III.  Partner promoter(s)	
	
A.  Details of the partner 	
Name		
Street address		
Postcode		City		
Region		Country		
Email		Website		
Telephone		Telefax		
	
Person in charge of the project (contact person)	
Family name (Ms/Mr)		First name		
Position/function		
Email		
Telephone		Telefax		
	
B.  Profile and role of the partner 	
Type and status	  Non profit/non governmental organisation	  Public body        Informal group of young people	
	  Body active at European level in the field of youth (ENGO)	  Other – please specify: 		
Activity level	  Local	  Regional	  National	  European/International	
	  Member organisation of the applicant	
Role 	  Sending Organisation	  Host Organisation	
Please give a short description of your organisation/group (regular activities, member of, etc.):	

	

C.  Preliminary agreement of the partner 	
I, the undersigned, on behalf of (repeat the name of the partner)
Your NGO’s name	
confirm our participation in each stage of the project (repeat the title of the project as stated in Part I):
Stories, books and libraries	
I declare having reached an agreement with all the promoters involved in the project with regard to the share of EU grant my organisation/group is entitled to receive in order to implement the project. 
I confirm that my organisation/group has not applied for funding for this project to another National Agency or to the Executive Agency.
Furthermore, I confirm my undertaking to ensure visibility of the European Union support for the project and to ensure dissemination and exploitation of its results.	
Name in capital letters:		
Place:	Signature:		
Date: