PORTFOLIO TEAM SPIRIT 2011-2013

Project number:

2011-1-GB2-GRU06-053807
Team Spirit Porfolio was prepared by Dorota Skwarczewska, Konrad Markiewicz (Poland) and Jesus Pando Gomez (Spain)

1. ORGANISATIONS VISITED IN POLAND 18-23 January 2012, Cracow

SIEMACHA

Siemacha Association is an organization established in Krakow in 1995. It provides different aspect of social help to various beneficents. There are three sectors of SIEMACHAs activities. One of them is sport. SIEMACHA runs two big sports centre called COM-COM Zone in Krakow and two other in different cities. The sport offer is directed to children, teenagers and adults who want to develop themselves in sport disciplines. The other sector is responsible for education and upbringing. There is a number of youthcentres in many different cities for teenagers, children and young adults (including people from minorities and young people with fewer opportunities for example Gippsies or Georgian), where all the clients can find a social and educational support. Third field of SIEMACHAs work is therapy. SIEMACHA takes care of people with different psychological problems.

JCC Jewish Community Centre

The Jewish Community Centre of Krakow (JCC) was officially opened in April 2008 by HRH, The Prince of Wales in response to a request made to him by the Jewish community during his visit to Krakow in 2002. In its few short years, the JCC has managed to achieve what many thought impossible - it has shown to the world that Jewish life in Krakow is not just a thing of the past, but very much of the present. Located in the heart of Kazimierz, the JCC provides Krakow's growing Jewish community with a space to meet and share ideas in a warm atmosphere, where everyone is welcome. A committed team of enthusiastic staff and volunteers works all year round at the JCC to build our community and engage with Jews and non-Jews from all backgrounds. While we recognize the need to honor the memory of the Holocaust, our hope is that visitors will also have the opportunity to experience contemporary Jewish life in Krakow, whose vibrancy stands as a living testament to the power of revival and the resilience of the Jewish spirit! The JCC has all the professional equipment for organizing conferences and all kinds of meetings. It is also possible to order kosher catering. The Centre is a place that allows various groups and their representatives to meet people of all ages, including children and their families. Inhabitants of Cracow and tourists for example, gather on a weekly basis during Sabbath dinners held on Friday evenings. Everyone has the opportunity to take part in the fruition of our religious, educational and community projects.

ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM

The exhibits were collected in Tarnw Ethnographic Museum since 1957. In 1976 the ethnographic department was seperated. In 1984, after the renovation of the museum, it become a separated branch of the Regional Museum. The building is a former eighteenth-century suburban inn. The building is covered with a hip roof. Roma Collection was established in Tarnow in 1979. It was the first exhibition of Roma collection in Poland. Since then, the Ethnographic Museum in Tarnow has a

section devoted to the history and culture of the Roma. This exhibition was opened in April 1990 because of the Fourth Congress of the Roma (Gypsies) in Serock, near Warsaw and is a permanent exhibition of the history and culture of the Roma in Poland, on the background of their European history. The exhibition is housed in the eighteenth-century manor house, on the back of the device is seasonally the outdoor part of a complex of cars rolling stock. During our visit during TEAM SPIRIT mobility we had the opportunity to talk with the director of the museum and meet a group of Romas living in Poland, listen to the their story and discuss their situation, see the exhibition and admire a beautiful dance show by Romas. KURDISTAN INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION CENTRE

Kurdish Information and Documentation Centre in Krakow, continuing activity of Polish Friendship Society-Kurdistan and is an organization of scientists, students and anyone interested in topics Kurdish. The main objective is to promote action KI&DCK Kurdish culture in Poland and integration of Kurdish minorities living in Poland. The centre wants to spread awareness about the history, culture and current events related Kudowa and Kurdistan. KI&DCK is running a number of events, festivals and celebrations of Kurdish traditions in Poland, for example: Kurdish Culture Festival, Kurdish New Year, PolishKurdish Student Forum in Krakow and Days of Kurdish culture. There is a free language course of Kurdish, library, which includes books, conference materials and press releases in multiple languages.

2. FINAL VISIT IN POLAND

26-29 June 2013, Krakow
Between 26-29 of June another French team visited Krakow for final visit of the Team Spilit Project. Because of the fact they were not able to come to Castro Urdiales in Spain in May they were invited again to Krakow. We spent the time on some evalutations of the Team Spilit Project and we visited couple organisations (like during the previous visit). The french delegation consisting of five people visted: SIEMACHA ASSOCIATION, KURDISTAN INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION CENTRE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE STRIM ASSOCIATION OFFICE

3. ORGANISATIONS VISITED IN SPAIN

15-19 November 2012, Castro Urdiales
ADYCAS

Photos from our visit to Adycas organization. They explained us their main activities and projects, and showed us their facilities.

Asociacin de Personas con Discapacidad de Castro Urdiales (ADICAS) , that may be translated to English as Organization of diseable people from Castro Urdiales, was stablished on February 1999 with the main aim of improving the quality of life of disabled people living in Castro Urdiales, as well as increasing their participation in the society. His target group is people with disabilities, their families, and professionals working with disables.

They have managed to get their aims for the last fourteen years, working providing information, supporting and advising in the following main areas: Integration, Accessibility, and Rights.

DYA CASTRO URDIALES

Meeting with Jose Blas, president of DYA Castro Urdiales during the Team Spirit seminar.

DYA was born as a non-profit organization more tan forty-five years ago in Basque Country. It was created by two reasons: the lack of a public ambulance service, and the lack of interest of drivers to help the others when an accident happened. In fact, DYA means Detente y Ayuda, that could be translated to English as Stop and Help. Nowadays, DYA has organizations all around Spain (Basque Country, Cantabria, Andaluca, Extremadura, Catalonia, La Rioja, Galicia, Murcia, tec). These organizations are independent from each others, although they share the same values and ideas. They work in different areas most of them focused to the disable people: Mobility, Accesibility, Counseling, International humanitarian and aid to developing countries, Integration, and Training and Education. DYA has received a lot of awards and recognitions by his social work.

WOMEN ORGANIZATION ATALAYA

Women during a dancing workshop

Atalaya has more than 2.700 members, and has been working in Castro Urdiales for the last twenty years. This organization was established by women, is ran by women, and their target group are just women. This organization was created with the main aim of helping the women form Castro Urdiales, working on favor of the rights of the women, the gender equality, and creating a cultural space highly necessary for them. They do some activities such as: workshops about gender violence, hiking workshops, trips and outing days, dancing courses, shows, etc.

CANTU SANTANA

Photo from our visit to Cantu Santanas museum during the first Team Spirit seminar

The organization Cantu Santana (Organization of friends of Castro Urdiales s history and the sea) has as main aims to take care of the traditions and folkways of the town of Castro Urdiales, and to create a Museum of the Sea. This organization is integrated just by volunteers who dedicate their free time to their passion: the sea , and Castro Urdialess history. They have also restored several old boats and ships, and during our visit, they show us how it was the sailing in the 19th century. Its truly interesting for us the fact nobody is employed in the organization, otherwise all the staff work in their free time in order to develop what they call the Project of their dreams. This is a good example of adult education and how to enjoy doing the things that you like to do.

BAOBAB

Stock photo from Baobab organization staff

During the seminar in Castro Urdiales, we met Ainara (youth worker) and Sidia (from Baobab organization).

Baobab (Organization of Africans United) was recently established on March 2012 in Castro Urdiales. They are 22 members these days, and they are open to all the Castro Urdiales citizens where they come from of their nationality. The beginning of this organization is in the Intercultural Meetings developed in Castro Urdiales, where they have collaborated doing, shows, workshops, food stalls, handcrafts, etc. Sidia also told her own life story and share his experience with us. He explained us the way he arrived (illegally) to Spain, the lack of communication at first when he didnt speak Spanish, the culture shock, his life when he didnt have the documents for being a European legal citizen, etc, his first jobs, his relation with his family, etc. In the end, Sidia is the best example of integration in a different society despite the culture and social differences.

GAZTELEKU

We visited one of the locals of Gazteleku, in the district of Recalde (Bilbao)

Located in the district Recalde in Bilbao (Basque Country), Gazteleku is a non-profit organization, plural and independent that works with the aim to achieve a better society. This is why they work based in a model of community development strongly concerned about a number of values: participation, integration, interculturality, justice, solidarity, respect, self-management, and equality. During our visit, their explained us some of their work about Interculturality, like how to bring closer the Recaldes neighbors with the gipsy families living in the same district. Regarding this issue, they have developed several activities like the recording of several videos promoting the values and way of life of the gypsy culture. They also organize intercultural parties, workshops, and an Open Day.

4. ORGANISATIONS VISITED IN SPAIN 1st - 5th May 2013, Castro Urdiales

CONTROL

Youth Organization Control was established in 2011 by a group of youngsters who decided to take on the work of the defunct organization LFA (Asociacin Ldica Flavibriga) and organize journeys and boarding games events. Their first small workshops were quite successful. This gave them encouragement as after they organized a national conference for four days in the month of August with the aim of promoting their organization nationwide. Control meets in the Youth Area of Castro Urdiales, where they tend to play boarding games and ramble about future projects. They strongly believe that the organization works as a meeting point for people who like playing boarding games, reading comicbooks, collection miniatures, and other alternative hobbies, as well as making friends, painting mandalas, and sharing books and guides. They have met the Castro Urdialess major and some councilors recently, because they are debating about the possibility of establishing a Youth Council in the town.

Having fun with some members of Control Organization

ASOCIACIN MUSICAL VOLUMEN

Volumen Musical Association (AM VOLUMEN) was established in 1991 in Castro Urdiales. Before being created, it was occupational workshop where the citizens from the town could perform very different leisure activities in a place provided by the local Council. The group of people who established the organization was really interested at playing music, and this is why they decided to open the organization by their own, with the aim of organize and regulate better their own musical activities, apply for grants, to present their work, etc. During the early years, a lot of bands were formed, and they rehearsed in the organizations local, who was provided by the Castro Urdiales council. That building has got two test classrooms, two warehouses, an open space for resting, and an office. They have been organizing the Castro Rock summer festival since 1996, that is held outdoors , with free entrance, and where they play some groups involved in the association and other groups invited from other towns or cities. They have organized also events for helping in international humanitarian causes and charity, such as concerts for the victims of the tsunami in Indonesia, the poverty in Tahiti, for supporting the Saharawi people from the refugees camps, etc.

Children with Edu from AM VOLUMEN, during a workshop in in 2010, where they learnt to play the guitar, drums, and other instruments as a way of healthy leisure time

Meeting with Roberto and Aroa from AM VOLUMEN

ATENEO (ROMANIAS ORGANIZATION IN CASTRO URDIALES)

Polish participants and some locals listening to Marinel Mitre

Marinel Mitre, president of Ateneo, the RomanIAs organization in Castro Urdiales met with us. He talked about his organization, that tries to help and prepare activities for the about 800 romanians people who live in the town of Castro Urdiales. The organization develops several activities such as: Exhibitions during the Intercultural Week of Castro Urdiales. Photo exhibitions. Presentations of the Romanian customes, and music. culture, with the typical foods, drinks,

Celebrate the romanians national holidays in Castro Urdiales They also had a cultural project . They sent a journalist travelling throughEurope and taking photos. Lately, the write-up was published in a regional newspaper.

Marinel also spoke about other interesting issues, such as the way Romanians are affected by the high levels of unemployment in Spain, the intercultural shock , or the xenophobia.

5.ORGANIZATIONS VISITED IN FRANCE 17th -21st September 2012, Paris

NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE A National Olympic Committee (NOC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, NOCs are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Olympic Games. They may nominate cities within their respective areas as candidates for future Olympic Games. NOCs also promote the development of athletes and training of coaches and officials at a national level within their geographies.

The first visit was the headquarters of the French Olympic Committee at three in the afternoon. We had a brief presentation of the Association at our expense and a series of questions and discussion about different sports federations comparing France, Spain and Turkey.

The seminar in Paris started with the visit to the French Olympic Committee

CENTRE DNIMATION DUNOIS

We had an interesting visit to a leisure center where we visited the classrooms and workshops, participate in the singing class as students and Spanish class and participate actively presenting us talking a bit about the association. This second activity is more productive than the last as almost all work in the social. The animation Dunois center offers a variety of cultural, accessible to all artistic and sporting activities. In fact, there are several rooms dedicated to these different activities: theatre, karate, ballet, The beautiful dojo has naturally led to Dunois center to specialize in the practice of martial arts. At the cultural level, the theater hosts every Friday and Saturday, a wide range of programming including theater, concerts, films, exhibitions, lectures and debates. The rehearsal rooms are open to young theater companies and dance. For young people, a counselor is available to help them set up their projects. During school holidays, a lot of thematic workshops are organized in the center.

The participants had the chance to see some workshops and to participants

MAISON DE LMPLOI ET DE LA FORMATION

Interesting presentation about how to build houses and create jobs for people with fewer opportunities in the Massy district. Incorporated as a public interest group (GIP) in October 2005, Maison de la Formation de l Emploiof Paris is part of the national system of employment centers, from the Social Cohesion Plan. It combines the City of Paris and the Department, the State, , the Authority, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry from Paris, the Chamber of Trades and Crafts and the City of Paris crafts' Universcience. They work in the aim to build innovative solutions in the field of employment, social inclusion and economic development through improved coordination mechanisms and local partners (institutions, businesses, etc) In essence, it is a national employment organization, where people can go and ask so that they could be provided job opportunities. Its something very close to the INEM (Instituto Nacional de Empleo in Spain). Website: http://www.maison-emploi-paris.fr/maison-emploi-paris

Stock photo of Maison de lmploi et de la Formation

Very similar to this one, also Yvelines Information Centre was visited. It is a youth information center, especially for consulting websites about work on volunteering activities.

AGENDA 21 The visit to Mission Local, part of Agenda 21 was interesting, talking about how recycling and the different workshops that are offered in Massy. However, the triple translation, French, English and Turkish was very time consuming and there wasnt enough time to explain everything as properly as it could have been possible. Agenda 21 is a United Nations agreement in order to promote sustainable development, adopted at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) hosted in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to June 14, 1992. This agreement was signed with the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and the Statement of principles on forests. The program is a detailed plan of actions to be developed at national and local levels, by UN entities, governments of its member states and private groups in all major areas occurring human impacts on the environment atmosphere.

Spanish participants listen carefully.

FUNDATION DAUTEIL

The visit to this foundation was, at least for the Spanish participants in this seminar, the most interesting of all the visits in the program. Several presentations of various associations such as the own foundation were done. The Spanish and Turkish organizations that take part in the seminar also were presented. Despite being a catholic foundation, they work with a target group from many religions, and they dont mind if the others are Jewish, Muslims, Hinduisms, etc. They also provide training courses in order to help people with fewer opportunities to get a job. By doing so, people without economic resources can get an opportunity and learn about hotel trade, cookery, etc. After these presentations we ended up having a truly interesting debate about the teaching of the subject Religion at schools, and how this is ran at our countries. Because of the lack of time, we couldnt debate as deeply as we would like.

Power point presentation in Fundacin d' Auteil

PAVILION OF THE WATER

We had also a visit to Pavillon de l'Eau (Pavilion of the water). Here a lot of curiosities about the water were explained to the participants.

6.ORGANIZATIONS VISITED IN TURKEY 14th-18th May 2012, Kirsehir

The organization showed the participants how is the Education in Turkey. The education is divided in two types: public and private education. The first one is quite similar to most of the Europeans countries. Its compulsory from six to eighteen years old. The private education is called adult education. In fact, we visited one of these centers. We could see the way the work, offering training courses to the unemployed people with rather low levels of educations or without any qualification. Women were offered training courses about Dressmaker. Both genders (so men and women) were offered training courses about Languages , mediation, etc.

KIRSEHIR YOUTH CULTURE, ART, AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION CENTER We also visited the local of Kir-shed, our hosting organization and partner in the project Team Spirit. They also talked to us about the way they work, the projects that are developing, and the projects planning to develop. An example of one of these projetcs, which is focused to immigrants from the East of Turkey who are sent to that region in order to work at the countryside, living at refugees camps. Kir-shed provides them water and other foods ,and facilitate them the access to education (mainly to the school for the children).

REFUGEES CAMPS

We had a trip to Capadoccia, whose area is a popular tourist destination, as it has many areas with unique geological, historic, and cultural features. This is the place of residence of the Early Christians, and after till nowadays of all kinds of civilizacions. This is why the contrast of mosques, churches, Greek columns, and stoned-carved houses , is abosulutaly amazing.

We had the chance to see the refugees camp and to meet the people living there.

5.ORGANIZATIONS VISITED IN FRANCE 8-11 April 2013, Paris

Between 8 and 11 April we had a possibility to participate in a seminar in Paris which was a part of project "Team Spirit". Firstly we spoke about this project and we tried to explain what exactly means for us "team spirit". Next we visited Centre Cultural Dunois where we had our meeting. Afternoon we met in amateur theater Athvains where we could see how look theater inside. After this we watched a play "Ravel" about a French musician Maurice Ravel.