Via Castello, 13
98079 TUSA
Italy
- Arts
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Gender
- Heritage
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Others
- Research
- Youth and education
In essence, the founding members aim to construct “new horizons” in the imminent future of the
people and crucially young people in their city of residence.
Based in Tusa, a small ancient town of approximately 3,000 inhabitants in the province of Messina
(Italy), New Horizons takes the initiative to rediscover, revitalize, and re-launch a floundering
town dealing with depopulation, youth unemployment and the shortage of socio-cultural services
for its remaining residents.
We also operate from Palermo, the capital city of Sicily, where there is a vibrant environment of
social entrepreneurship, cultural initiatives and international exchanges. We are part of the
Innovation Network Palermo, a community aspiring to be a meeting point for professionals of
diverse competences to exchange ideas, new technology and best practices for innovation.
Specifically, the OBJECTIVES are:
* to prepare young people with necessary skills and competences, thus increase their employability;
* to make the local territory an attractive place to live, work and thrive;
* to develop and implement programs in non-formal education for young people & adults;
* to support active citizenship and integration of all people regardless of their social and ethnic backgrounds
Main activities include:
- Project design and implementation
- Research and data collection
- Education, training and job orientation
- Promotion of arts and culture in the local territory
- International Cooperation
for local youth in particular and adults of disadvantaged background.
New Horizons organizes training courses, exchanges, workshops and networking occasions on either local or international scale on themes such as entrepreneurship, integration, social awareness, and consulting services in national and EU project management.
Become Anna Lindh network member, we aspire to strengthen the national network by reaching further to remote, isolated areas such as Tusa, where we are based. We deem the international and national cooperation vital to change perspectives and enrich the worldviews of local people who are still quite limited in their small living realities.
We will be glad to offer our motivation, expertise and start-up experiences in particular context of small communities, as well as our local network contacts in the Nebrodi area that we have managed to build up.
Being experienced project managers and motivated initiative-takers, we will be active members who shall propose new ideas, consultation, practical contribution, and set up new partnership.
We consider it an honor and a must to join the ALF network that represents a large pool of effective and dynamic civil society organizations, which is vital and coherent to our working mission to bridge the local communities to the outside society.
In fact, as individual professionals, our staff have had positive experiences working with ALF network and thus, we would like to continue with our organization.
With granted membership, we aim to put into practice our ideas with other national and international network members, together with learning from their best practices.
On the last note, we are convinced that, with ALF's reputation, our initiatives and actions will receive aumented support from local communities and authorities, as well as more international attention for a better, sustainable impact.