Au Carrefour de L`Europe is an NGO founded and registered in January 2019 that gathered youth workers, volunteers and friends that have a common interest in sharing their personal and professional experience through non-formal education.
Our vision is to contribute to the development of the society, promote, disseminate and apply through non-formal education, sport, arts and outdoor activities values like equality, freedom, inclusion and sustainable development.
Our purpose is to develop and promote intercultural exchanges among youngsters in order to increase healthy attitudes, volunteering, promote culture and take care of the environment.
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Au Carrefour de L’Europe is an NGO established in January 2019, bringing together a community of dedicated youth workers, volunteers, and like-minded individuals. United by a passion for non-formal education, the organization aims to share both personal and professional experiences. With a strong vision for societal progress, the NGO strives to foster positive change through non-formal education, sports, arts, and outdoor activities.
Central to their mission is the promotion of essential values such as equality, freedom, inclusion, and sustainable development. By engaging in intercultural exchanges, Au Carrefour de L’Europe seeks to cultivate healthy attitudes, encourage volunteering, celebrate diverse cultures, and actively contribute to environmental conservation. With a commitment to shaping the next generation’s outlook, the organization envisions a future characterized by cooperation, understanding, and holistic growth.
Operating in France’s overseas territories, Au Carrefour de L’Europe extends its influence where the sun never sets on French soil. These territories, scattered across the world’s oceans, provide abundant potential for exploration. The organization recognizes the significance of fostering the European spirit and citizenship in these regions. This commitment is deemed vital not only for the prosperity of France but also for the collective well-being of the European Union.
Since January 2020, Au Carrefour de L’Europe has established a subsidiary in Reunion Island and set up an office in L’Étang-Salé. The address of the office in Reunion Island is 4, rue Franck Camille Cadet, ZIE Les Sables, 97427. This physical presence underscores the organization’s dedication to bridging distances and promoting its mission in these distant locales.
The organization is highly involved in working with youth, its members and volunteers being students and young people actively involved in community life. We contribute to shaping a harmonious life perspective for young people through non-formal education, and having a friendly approach to the issues of employability among young people and through activities and projects on environmental protection. The main values that we promote are equal opportunities, active citizenship, team spirit, tolerance, respect and care for the environment. Through these activities we determine and stimulate young people to volunteer, we stimulate the motivation of young people to protect nature and form an appropriate ecological behavior through planting activities, thus imprinting ecological and civic behavior.
Our target group is young people 16-30 years old from Paris and from overseas territories. Regarding vulnerable groups and young people with fewer opportunities, we work directly with overseas young people without financial possibilities and that have never been to continental Europe.
Key activities – social and professional inclusion of fewer opportunities for youngsters and supporting the environment by promoting sustainable development. We also activate in the overseas territories of France, as we believe in promoting the European spirit and citizenship in those territories is crucial for the well being of France and the European Union.
We are convinced that in the future the opportunities offered by the new Erasmus+ project can make a difference within our field of activity and can generate a positive impact both upon young people and our organisation, and upon the community, contributing thus to their long-term development.
PREVIOUS PROJECT EXPERIENCES
4Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in Reunion focused in the sustainable grow and development of our societies. the main objectives of the project were the following: To Raise awareness about shortage of natural resources problem, To present circular economy and 3Rs theory as a tool to fight against pollution and shortage of natural resources, To raise awareness about the importance and value of natural resources in our planet and To change consumes habits to a more eco-friendly ones. For this project we counted with the support of La Délégation Académique aux Relations Européennes et Internationales et à la Coopération (DAREIC).
MiSport – Migrants Inclusion Through Sports bets on the social values of sport and works on developing, exchanging and share good inclusive sport practices from all Europe in order to improve skills and working methods of social workers, sport facilitators and sport teachers who everyday work for the immigrant social inclusion through Sport. Furthermore, we would like to highlight the inclusion of the participation of the French oversea territory Reunion Island, as a way to bring EU innovation and policies to remote European areas.
Together for a better future Youth Exchange have the purpose to help young people realize the negative impact of discrimination and to motivate them to stop discrimination. We also want to be more open to other cultures and getting involved in more local actions, especially with groups where there are those with limited opportunities. We have taken into consideration the E + priorities and we specify that our project promotes inclusion, diversity, equality and non-discrimination in the youth sector.
Youth Against Violent Radicalization purpose is to encourage tolerance among youngsters, to prevent hate speech and violent extremism, to provide tools to recognize racism and radicalization and to understand how they occur, what are the dangers that arise by them. The program starts with the learning needs of participants and gives them the opportunity to implement their own ideas and activities. The program offers context for inclusion for youngsters with fewer opportunities. Specific applied working methods include, but are not limited to: • Workshops • Structured input sessions • Roleplay and simulation games • Energizers and team building activities • Get to know each other activities • Ice-breaking activities • Open Space Technology • World Cafe and Pro-action cafe.
The project “YouthInHerit” is designed to answer two main questions: 1. In what ways do young people engage with urban and rural heritage? 2.How can this engagement be used to develop a better understanding of the relationship between young people and historic and cultural places?” 5 European Youth organizations aim to create a sharing and reflecting space for 30 youngsters about European cultural heritage and to encourage them to promote it through backpack journalism and digital tools. Journalism is a way of discovering realities and traditions of a country or a community, enabling the dialogue between different generations.
Team
Au Carrefour de L`Europe founders and members have a large past experience and know-how that they want to implement in our current and future activities. Our activities and projects are always focused on areas related to European values and interests such as human rights, social inclusion, peacebuilding, conflict resolutions, social minorities, youth employability, entrepreneurship, etc.
The areas of expertise of our members are task division, work project management, non-formal education, implementing, assisting and organizing training and events in areas such as communication, social inclusion, outdoor activities and healthy lifestyle.
The vice-president of our association has Central African citizenship and a large experience in working with children from African countries but also Reunion Island.
In Reunion Island, through our events and projects we are also helping the African and Asian immigrants from countries like Kenya or Madagascar in their struggle to start a social and professional life in Reunion. We are supporting them in their social, cultural and educational inclusion and we are emphasizing the importance of the inclusion of the migrants.
Our members and volunteers are regularly attending different types of training to increase their soft skills, competencies and abilities. All our team members have been involved in international training activities and have experience in international cooperation and are qualified and experienced adequately to provide high quality in their work.
Our current team counts over 36 volunteers, out of which 20 live in Reunion island. They all have signed a volunteering contract, which describes our duties and theirs as well. Our volunteers are mostly responsible with logistical aspects of youth exchanges we organise and they are part of the team which is in charge of the dissemination of the project’s results.
Each one of the team members has a different view of life, approaches, strategies and ideas to improve their world and we think that this diversity unites us in a common vision of a world that can work for everyone out of respect, toleration, cooperation and care. The persons involved have the capacity to support engaging debates and discussions on relevant topics in current society.
They are also experienced in working in an intercultural environment with foreign partners and in project management, project coordination, event management and human resources considering the project they had developed and implemented themselves.
Has more than 15 years of experience working in NGOs and small and large enterprises specialized in project and event management, facilitating and coordinating international projects in the fields of non-formal education, an expert in project development and project management. The main areas of expertise are environmental issues and sustainable development, social inclusion, youth unemployment, gender equality and volunteering. He attended certified courses in project management, volunteers' management, training of trainers. He was a French Teacher and he worked with different type of youngsters. He has strong skills in leadership and team coordinator. He is involved in several organisations in France, Bulgaria and Romania with a vast experience in managing educational, cultural and environmental projects in France and Outré Mer Territories.
Has Central African citizenship and a large experience in working with children from African countries but also Reunion island with a vast experience in managing educational, cultural and environmental projects in France and Outre Mer Territories.
