Via Raimondo Feleti 14
95125 Catania
Italy
- Democracy and community development
- Human rights
- Youth and education
Hub- Officine Giovanili aims to foster an aware youth participation in the society at local, national and international leve. The association composed by young people involved in civil society with various roles, personalities and sensitivies.
The association is called Hub properely because it represents the place where ideas are born and realized. It realized several local and international projects, from campaigns for local awareness to the participation to global forums and public adovcacy. Most of the members are active youth workers or youth leaders in the field of democracy-building, peace building and human rights. Most of the members have participated in international events and traning courses and then have implemented those tools in local projects.
At international level Hub has promoted and/or participated to several training courses in the relevant areas of the current application (e.g. Most recent international traning courses : "Human rights: Be Open, Be Active, Be Youth Peace Ambassadors" , Young Peacebuilders Forum, Active Citizenship through simulations games, Peace Is) or has been selected to public events thanks to its initatives (Catania 2.0 initiative was selected by the Council of Europe as one of the 25 best-practices in the field of youth and democracy, presented at the 2013 World Forum for Democracy) . At local level Hub is actively involved in charity initiatives, volunteerism, organization of conferences and workshop related to human rights and peace education. It has also been selcted by other NGO's and institutions as Project Coordinator activities related to sustainability and peace-building.
Next July, we will host a training course "Learnig, from, with and about Refugees" with 15 NGO's coming from 15 different countries in Sicily.
Our organization is entirely made up of young people who were born and currently live at the heart of the Meidterranean, in Sicily. For this reason we believe that a strong partnership with the Network can empower both, as we are willing to spread the powerful messages of the Network exactly where they are more needed. We would like to implement projects and initiatives related to intercultural dialogue in the Mediterranean, between the MENA region and Europe. At the same time, we would be happy to give our youth perspective to the network on the most important topics in the agenda of the Network.
We truly believe that Anna Lindh Foundation has the power to be a real cultural bridge that can help ensuring integration, respect and knowledge among all the different cultures that shape the Mediterranean. This is one of Hub's main goals and we are working towards this objective. For this reason we believe that joining the Network can represent a very empowering tool for us, but also an opportunity for us to give our inputs to the Network.