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ur programs serve youth from seventh grade to university level and post-graduation with relevant and unique content, activities, and projects that improve students’ and youth’s entrepreneurial skills, financial literacy, communication and interpersonal, ethical leadership, teamwork, and creative thinking skills. For older youth in universities/colleges, youth centers, and Vocational Training Institutes (VTIs) the majority of the programs offered provide direct links to real-world opportunities and support (e.g. through entrepreneurships, internships, job placement, enterprise creation and management) for them to gain work experience or otherwise develop their professional and entrepreneurial skillset.
INJAZ Thematic Areas:
- Life Skills and Career Guidance
- Business and Entrepreneurship
- Social Leadership
- Financial Education

Our purpose is to better the prerequisites of girls and women to act on different levels of the society. Importance of peer support is highlighted and strongly present in our work.
We support girls and women through guidance and counselling to find their own resources and to make their own decisions. We are not scholars of islam and we do not give religious rulings (fataawa).
Our organization offers guidance and counselling to muslim girls and women, and to others who specifically want support based on islamic values. The organisation holds for example weekly peer gatherings, during which is possible to seek one on one guidance and counselling. You can get service- and social advicing holistically considering your situation and your wishes and needs.

 
Mixtura project
Summer camp
Youth projects

Projects
2020-2022. Preventing Hate Against Refugees and Migrants. Financing Entity: European Commision. Call REC-RRAC-RACI-AG-2019. Ref: JUST/REC-875219. 362,131.85 euros. PI: Dr. Carlos Arcila
2019-2020. Development and Evaluation of a hate speech detector online in Spanish. Financing Entity: Fundación General de la Universidad de Salamanca. Plan TCUE 2018-2020. Referencia: PC-TCUE18- 20_016. Cuantía del proyecto: 7.000 euros. PI: Dr. Carlos Arcila Calderón. www.ocausal.es/proyecto-stop-hate/
2019-2023. Enhanced migration measures from a multidimensional perspective. Financing Entity: Comisión Europea. Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. Call H2020-SC6-MIGRATION-2019. Referencia: H2020-SC6-870661. 2,992,035.00 euros. PI: Prof. Dr. Ides Nicaise (KU Leuven)
2016-2020. Narrative tools to reduce prejudice. Effects of similarity, imagined contact, empathy and narrative voice. Financing Entity: Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. 49,126 euros. PI: Dr. Juan José Igartua Perosanz.
2018-2020. Narrative tools for smoking prevention in adults. Effects of similarity with the audience and narrative voice. Financing Entity: Consejería de Educación, Junta de Castilla y León, Spain. 12,000 euros. PI: Dr. Juan José Igartua Perosanz.
2019-2020. Data Science in Spain: knowledge and public perception of big data and artificial intelligence. Financing Entity: Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) in the Call for grants for the promotion of scientific, technological and innovation culture 2019-2020. 25,000 euros. PI: Dr. D. Carlos Arcila Calderón. www.ocausal.es/datasciencespain/
Patents
AutoCop: Software to run supervised sentiment analysis at large scale and with streaming analytics. Intellectual property registered in 2017 by the University of Salamanca [# 00/2017/3204] under the next authorship: Carlos Arcila Calderón, Félix Ortega, Francisco Amores, Sofía Trullenque, Mateo Álvarez and Javier Ramírez.
Online courses of a methodological nature:
2017. Mediation, moderation and analysis of moderate mediation with bootstrapping techniques. Introduction to the handling of the PROCESS macro for SPSS. IP. 9 videos 3,551 views. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0l_USEzgyRseeeIRh7APuhw2C_l6PT4n
Publicaciones recientes (selección):
Igartua, J. J., Wojcieszak, M., & Kim, N. (2019). How the interplay of imagined contact and first-person narratives improves attitudes toward stigmatized immigrants. A conditional process model. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49(2), 385-397.
Igartua, J. J., & Fiuza, D. (2018). Persuading with narratives against gender violence. Effect of similarity with the protagonist on identification and risk-perception. Palabra Clave, 21(2), 499-523.
Rodríguez-de-Dios, I., van Oosten, J. M. F., e Igartua, J. J. (2018). A study of the relationship between parental mediation and adolescents’ digital skills, online risks and online opportunities. Computers in Human Behavior, 82, 186-198.
Arcila, C., Barranquero, A. & García, E. (2018). From Media to Buen Vivir: Latin American Approaches to Indigenous Communication. Communication Theory, 28(2), 180–201.
Caffarel-Serra, C, Ortega-Mohedano, F., & Gaitán-Moya, J.A. (2018) La investigación en comunicación en España: Debilidades, amenazas, fortaliezas y oportunidades. Comunicar, 26, 61-70.
Arcila, C., Ortega, F., Jiménez, J., & Trulleque, S. (2017). Supervised sentiment analysis of political messages in Spanish: real-time classification of tweets based on machine learning. El Profesional de la Información, 26(5), 973-982.
Igartua, J. J., & Frutos, F. J. (2017). Enhancing attitudes toward stigmatized groups with movies: mediating and moderating processes of narrative persuasion. International Journal of Communication, 11, 158–177.
Igartua, J. J., Wojcieszak, M., Cachón-Ramón, D., & Guerrero-Martín, I. (2017). “If it hooks you, share it on social networks”. Joint effects of character similarity and imagined contact on the intention to share a short narrative in favor of immigration. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 72, 1085-1106.
Igartua, J. J., & Vega, J. (2016). Identification with characters, elaboration, and counterarguing in entertainment-education interventions through audiovisual fiction. Journal of Health Communication, 21(3), 293-300.
Igartua, J. J., & Rodríguez-de-Dios, I. (2016). Motivational correlates of use and satisfaction with Facebook. Cuadernos Info, 38, 107-119.
Soto-Sanfiel, M. T., & Igartua, J. J. (2016). Cultural proximity and interactivity in the processes of narrative reception. International Journal of Arts and Technology, 9(2), 87-107.
Igartua, J. J., & Barrios, I. M. (2013). Hedonic and eudaimonic motives for watching feature films. Validation of the Spanish version of Oliver & Raney’s scale. Communications. The European Journal of Communication Research, 38(4), 411-431.
Resources:
The Observatory of Audiovisual Content (OCA) has its own physical space and technological equipment for the development of the research of its members and doctoral students.
As for the techniques and methodologies used in the work of the group and the usual management of the researchers, support of the following is provided:
• Experimental research in studies on processes and effects of media messages (Media Lab). Online experiments with QUALTRICS.
• Quantitative research, through questionnaire, on uses, processes and media effects.
• Content analysis of media messages.
• Computerized Content Analysis (CATA). LIWIC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) program.
• Qualitative analysis of media messages (narrative and discourse analysis).
• Qualitative methodology (focus groups and open interviews in depth) for the analysis of media uses, processes and effects.
• Techniques for statistical analysis of univariate, bivariate and multivariate data. Programs SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), R, JASP, MPlus and AMOS.
• Big Data Analysis, development and processing of computerized algorithms.
• Cross-sectional studies of traditional and booming media (Internet, Videogames, Social Networks, Apps ...).

Participated in the Comenius project (2004-2007), an ongoing school cooperation between Telšiai Žemaitė Gymnasium and Minsk Mazowiecki Gimnazijum Miejske Nr.3 (since 2006), a few international online projects

Recent  project reference list (2018-2019)
Towards Improved Labour Relations and Proffessionalism in Albanian Media /EU Commission
National consultation on MIL Policy and strategyin CIMU SEE/SEENPM UNESCO project
Media Literacy Project/EU –Media Centar Sarajevo Project
Countering Violent Extremism and Religious Radicalism/USAID ANTARC Project
Revising Albania Code of Ethics/CoE Project
Albanian Media Scheme versus European Standards/Dutch Embassy project
Media Sustanability Index report/IREX project 2019
Fostering Proffesional Media reporting SEENPM/NED Transitions Project
Soft Censorship dhe Crisis of Trust/Soros Foundation project
Mapping Local Media in Albania/FES Project
 A Re-Examination of relationships Between Media and Democracy in Post Truth Era in the New Democracies/KAS Project
Strengthening the Role of the Independent Media in the Justice Reform Process in Albania/Norwegian Embassy -Partners Project
Promoting Media Information Literacy and Strengthening Independent Media in Western Balkans/Albany Project
Improvement of media coverage of children in electronic media and media literacy/Audiovisual Media Authority Project

Youth Consultation on City Branding
The Youth Consultation on City Branding is an action to identify strategic development proposals for the city branding and it took place in Katerini on March 23, 2019.
The young people expressed their ideas and suggestions during the discussion in which there was the presence of members of a Scientific Committee who submitted their own thoughts on the following topics:
1. Marketing and Branding as a Tool for the Development of the Cities of Pieria (architecture, urban design, communication design, logo design)
2. Participatory Design in shaping the brand/image of a City
3. Wine - Gastronomic routes
4. Religious tourism in Pieria
5. Monuments, Branding and Cultural Heritage Sites as  Means of Promoting Local Identity
6. City Branding through Festivals: Cultural Heritage, Creativity and Cultural Entities as elements of the brand of the cities
7. The role of media in shaping an image for a destination
8. Digital Cultural Design - Smart Cities
9. The prospects of highlighting Katerini's refugee status
10. Social innovation, solidarity policies and volunteering as a means of promoting a city
11. Sport as a mean of promoting an area
 
Youth Public Consultation in the framework of the National Youth Strategy 17-27
Starting in March 2018, in cooperation with the General Secretariat for Youth, we conducted a Youth Public Consultation in the framework of the National Youth Strategy 17-27 in Katerini. The participants expressed their views and commented on the priorities of the plan for that time frame of the National Youth Strategy, which was then voted on and ratified by the Greek Parliament.
The Municipal Youth Council of Thessaloniki
The Municipal Youth Council of Thessaloniki gives the chance to 15-30-year-old residents of the Municipality of Thessaloniki to take initiatives and become active through a standardized process designed by the Network of Youth Engagement - Katerini in collaboration with the Community Enterprise of Thessaloniki Municipality. Participants are able to propose and discuss issues affecting the entire youth population of Thessaloniki. Following the discussion, the topics are submitted to the Community Enterprise of Thessaloniki Municipality and presented to the Municipal Council in a consultative manner so as to effectively organize youth-relative events and activities.
SYN-THESIS | Municipal Council Simulation 
SYN-THESIS | Municipal Council Simulation of Katerini is a conference aiming at bringing youth in touch with the institutional procedures of the Municipal Council. It has been taking place for three consecutive years in Katerini, aiming at young people, high school students and public or resident students of Katerini up to 23 years old. By familiarizing them with the ways that the municipality operates, participants get to know the decision-making process, while acquiring administrative roles giving them the opportunity to discuss and decide on a virtual level on various issues related to local governance.

crée un centre pour integrer les handicapes dans La communauté .