Dialogue interculturel en action is a small-scale partnership project between EIVA and Ankraj, two grassroots youth organizations working in different corners of the world, Romania and Guadeloupe. Though thousands of kilometers apart, both organizations share the same goals: empowering youth, strengthening inclusion, and building meaningful learning experiences through non-formal education.

This project brings together youth professionals from both organizations to co-learn, observe each other’s practices, and develop new tools and strategies for more inclusive and culturally grounded youth work.

• Strengthen the capacity of youth organizations to work across cultures.
• Promote intercultural learning through mobility and exchange.
• Support youth workers in working with disadvantaged communities.
• Foster sustainable partnerships and mutual project development.

Two mobilities, one in Romania, one in Guadeloupe, allowed each organization to host and share its methods. Youth workers had the chance to immerse themselves in the daily work of their partner organization, learning through observation, participation, and reflection.

Exchange sessions at KANA youth reception center
Workshops with local educators and cultural workers
Dialogue on social inclusion and youth integration pathways
A joint planning session for future cooperation

We’re currently working on:

The final toolkit to be shared freely
Webinars to deepen and expand the dialogue
A potential follow-up Erasmus+ project on youth inclusion and social innovation
This page will be regularly updated with:

• Project results
• Downloadable resources
• Partner content
• Youth worker testimonials

Speak Up Yourself was an Erasmus+ project aimed at improving the teaching skills of educators and enhancing communication for students with cognitive and non-verbalizing difficulties. The project focused on creating practical tools to support teachers and parents, thereby improving the integration opportunities for these students into social and professional life.​

Enhance Teaching Skills: Provide educators with effective strategies and resources to support students with special educational needs.​
Develop Supportive Tools: Create resources that facilitate better communication for non-verbalizing students.​
Promote Integration: Improve the social and professional integration prospects for students with communication challenges.​

Improved Educational Practices: Educators gained access to innovative tools and methodologies, enhancing their ability to support students with special educational needs.​
Enhanced Communication: The project’s tools enabled better interaction between educators, parents, and students, contributing to more effective learning experiences.​
Increased Integration Opportunities: By improving communication skills, students with non-verbalizing difficulties experienced greater inclusion in social and professional contexts.​

Speak Up Yourself concluded successfully, leaving a legacy of improved educational resources and enhanced communication strategies for students with special educational needs. The project’s outputs continue to serve as valuable tools for educators and parents alike.​

For more information and access to project materials, visit the official website: speakupyourself.altervista.org

FLOW is a project built from the collaboration of three organizations – EIVA (Romania), Léo Lagrange (France), and COMMUNITY (Turkey). We share a common goal: to raise the quality of youth learning mobility experiences and make them more inclusive, accessible, and better adapted to today’s digital world.

The project focuses on four key areas that are essential to modern youth work:

Inclusion of youth with fewer opportunities
Active youth participation
Environmental sustainability in mobility
Digital tools that support learners and educators
FLOW aims to improve how we plan, support, and evaluate youth mobilities. It also brings together practical knowledge, a user-friendly mobile app, and a collaborative guide – all co-created by the partners.

📱 The FLOW App

A digital platform that guides learners through their mobility experience – from preparation and application to learning, reflection, feedback and follow-up. It includes features like:

Personal development journals
Interactive weekly schedules
Feedback forms and check-ins
Recognition of learning (Youthpass, digital badges)
Organizational tools for staff and coordinators
📘 The Guide: “30 Steps to Inclusion, Participation, Environment, and Digitalisation”

A shared manual with best practices, concrete tools, and mobility project ideas, focused on our four key themes. It is being developed throughout the project via on-site visits and partner collaboration.

💡 Future Project Templates

As a sustainability action, we will create 3 mobility project blueprints, building on the lessons from FLOW.

The project includes four activities in three countries:

This space will soon host our Guide and access to the FLOW App, as well as updates, training materials and videos.

Stay tuned – FLOW is just getting started.

Through the project « Leaders in Action » implemented by EIVA Association and co-funded by Arad Municipal Center of Culture you have the opportunity to learn about opportunities available to young people in Europe

In other words, we challenge you to improve your leadership skills, in a concrete way, by learning valuable lessons about what you can do and what opportunities are available for you at European level!

Aim of the project

Developing the ability to understand your own learning needs and self-awareness

Target group

Young people who are part of the education system, in need of support, this should focus on making the most of formal and non-formal learning programs, enabling pupils/students to overcome learning problems and barriers, providing information on how to acquire knowledge that is not taught in school and providing leadership guidance.

Young people who have graduated from college or are in the workforce need guidance/counseling because often people’s personal learning and life goals are not yet set. Although the social environment helps them to identify their individual abilities and set their goals, specific guidance on learning is also useful then during vocational training. Further education or training enables young people in particular to identify different educational paths, find options and make their own long-term education or training plans.

« If you don’t fight for what you want, you deserve what you get! » John Maxwell

For 30 days, thanks to the project co-funded by the Municipal Center of Culture Arad, in partnership with EIVA Association, we held for young people from Arad learning through play sessions- Game&Learn- which had as main theme the opportunities available to young people at European level and leadership.

During the sessions we saw a remarkable spirit of leadership shown by the participants. Extremely open to the new, eager to assert themselves to bring added value to their community, each where they are active, very capable and with a strong sense of belonging to Arad.

There were many moments of awareness, in a relaxing and humorous atmosphere, moments of self-discovery, of learning from others and of sharing their own extraordinary experiences that gave a new perspective on life for those present.

Our partners in implementing the activities were the Technological High School of Food Industry in Arad and the Henri Coandă High School of Automotive Transportation in Arad.

The young participants discovered numerous examples of young people who have exploited the opportunities available at European level and discussed many topics through which they were able to better crystallize their own vision through self-discovery.

They understood that an important role in leadership is personal leadership, that the highest form of leadership is to lead oneself towards one’s own goals and that taking responsibility for the leadership role in the community is a high goal.

They have moved to a new level of understanding about the ability to make conscious decisions in order to navigate the way forward in both personal and professional life.
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Young people have discovered the main programs and platforms dedicated to young people at European level:

Erasmus + with learning placements and intercultural exchanges in all European countries
the European Solidarity Corps, facilitating actions through which young people can learn and get involved in the life of communities in Europe
Eurodesk – the European learning service presenting all the opportunities available to young people in Europe.

Following these sessions we had excellent feedback from those who attended, with leaders leaving with a strong desire for action and continuous improvement

The project « Positive leisure time alternatives for young people from Covasant Commune, Arad County » was coordinated by EIVA Association in partnership with Avangarde Association from Covasant. In our approach we started from the premise that free time can be a good opportunity for young people to prepare for life, in terms of personal, social and professional development. However, without proper guidance and a coherent offer, free time can not only be wasted, but also used to the young person’s disadvantage. During the 3 months of implementation in the Youth and Vocational Training Center in Covăsînț we realized:

• Project launch activity and recruitment/selection of participants
• Intercultural event in partnership with Alternative Association
• Non-formal activities of positive use of free time, educationally oriented, for the personal, social and professional development of the participants with the use of purchased board games
• Boardgames workshops
• Elaboration of an informative leaflet on the main results of the project