Lithuania

Main activities/projects: - national conferences in social emotional education; - the training program of lecturer in social emotional education; - national friendly olympiad "Elephant" for children in social emotional education; - publication of a manual for the development of emotional intelligence and social emotional competences.

Our activities are destined to
• Implementation of public information and visibility activities destined to guarantee family friendly social environment and enhance positive image and role of parenthood and childhood institution;
• Initiation of scientific research of family situation, demographic decline in fertility, population aging and labor market problems related to that;
• Activation of parents in order to increase their participation in civil society life, to initiate a permanent, public and open forum on family role issues;
• Attraction of investments into facilities of preschool and school institutions; decreasing problem of the quality and quantity of occupation of parents with preschool and school age children;
• Participation to family friendly work places development, increase of possibilities of harmonization between family and work commitments;
• Promotion of parent’s occupation and entrepreneurship and self-employment; social integration of parents;
• Realization of sexual equality, women and men equal opportunities in family and society.

* International dance festival AURA (since 1989 till now) * Interdisciplinary project "AURA and other Demons" (from 2007 till 2012) * TEXTILE'11:PLAY (Moving Textile). Collaboration between AURA’21 and Kaunas Biennial TEXTILE’11 festivals.

Consultancy in creation of new projects; search for funding; help and cooperation in partner search; preparation of applications; research and preparation of feasibility studies; organisation of seminars and trainings.

- Organisation of volunteers and formation of  local community - Operating centres/ branches: 10 day centres for children; Care home for Single Mother’s and children; Refugee Integration Center; Foreigners Integration Program; Hostels for homeless; 2 homeless day centre; 2 charity canteens; Rehabilitation and integration community for addicted people; Temporary Care Home for children; Support program for victims; - Social business structures: social café, candle workshop

CEA works in the field of gender mainstreaming, monitoring of policies on gender based violence, women’s leadership, access to gender justice, tolerance building and quality of equality policies. • The center permanently conducts training seminars on gender equality policies, women’s leadership and empowerment for Lithuanian and international target groups. Recently CEA experts conducted training seminar for women leaders from Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Georgia and Ukraine in order to empower them in promoting gender equality policy objectives and strategies. Workshop for Kyrgyzstan local community leaders introduced the international good practices and lessons learned in the field of combating violence against women. Currently CEA experts have conducted cycle of seminars for Lithuanian public policy actors which provided enhanced knowledge on gender mainstreaming and transformative understanding of gender equality policies. • CEA has rich experience in organizing study tours for diverse international groups. Since 2006 CEA organized study tours for delegations from Ukraine, Uzbekistan and countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Among the participants of these delegations there were politicians and MPs from Ukraine, municipal administration, UNDP employees, civil servants from Ukraine, government representatives from Uzbekistan, NGO leaders, journalists and government members from Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Georgia etc. • Currently CEA is enrolled in the project to build the in-depth understanding and practical application of competences in implementation of reconciliation of family and work life. By conducting the seminars and trainings for employers and municipal administration the aim is to develop family friendly culture in working environment and the model of services and consultations needed for the families to reconcile family obligations and employment needs. • In the field of violence against women CEA implements the project to build self-confidence and empower victims of domestic violence through the collective activities to overcome traumatic experience. • CEA contributed to the Study on the case studies of Resisting and Challenging the Fundamentalisms under AWID initiative. The case study on Lithuania demonstrates concrete strategies and advocacy efforts to resist and challenge Catholic religious fundamentalism. It produces new and strategic knowledge on growing Catholic religious fundamentalism in public and political life in Lithuania and its deteriorating impact on women’s rights. The study presents strategies employed by women’s rights activists to resist and challenge them in order to contribute to supporting and strengthening responses to religious fundamentalism by women’s rights activists and advocates • CEA organizes public campaigns, petitions and other advocacy work to promote women’s rights, non-discrimination and democratic values. • CEA staff was invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to provide expert’s knowledge on gender equality in preparation and during chairmanship at ESBO in 2011 and continues their cooperation in 2012.

Please find the document attached. CV of the managing director shows the activities and the main projects of the organisation as well.

Non-Applicable