Project “Ethnic integration promotional event”
12-08-2009
Time: May 15th, 2010 – Jul, 2010
Funding: total funding LVL 850.00, main sponsor: Riga City Council ( LVL 500.00 )
Location: Riga, Latvia
Project aim: promote ethnic integration, and promoting various nationalities mutual understanding and cooperation.
Audience: society, which operates Jēkabpils ethnic integration, representatives of the participants, of various nationalities, Riga city residents who are attending, Riga and Vidusdaugava inhabitants of the region who will receive the information in the mass media, radio and newspapers
Main activities: meeting of representatives of minority associations, publishing information materials, information media, the press and radio, ethnic integration in action
Project ““Participation” The European Forum for Restorative Justice”, Spain
Time: May 10th, 2010 – June 30th, 2010
Funding: total funding LVL 667.63, main sponsor:Foundation “AB.LV Fund” (LVL 555.00)
Location: Bilbao, Spain
Purpose and main activities: visit the European Forum for Restorative Justice 6th conference “Working with Regenerating justice in Europe. Practice and innovation”. Retrospection of the past and visions for the future.
(The 6th Biennial Conference and 10th Anniversary of The European Forum for Restorative Justice Doing Restorative Justice in Europe Established Practices and Innovative Programmes Looking back and looking forward)
Project “Open Integration”
Time: June 15th, 2009 – March 31st, 2010
Funding: total funding LVL 30 157.84, 75% of the European Fund for the Integration of third-country nationals and 25% of the state budget
Project aim: Create integration centers for preschool children and their mothers (third-country nationals), providing education, psychological support and babysitting services
Audience:
1) Preschool children of third-country nationals
2) Preschool children mothers of third-country nationals
Main activities: Establishment of the children’s integration center and ensuring a function of it, training course development for preschool age children and their mothers. Event organization, children babysitting, psychological support group organization and management for children’s mothers and publicity activities as well.
Results: Implementation of the project actualized the importance of integration between the Latvian native people and third-country nationals. The project led to establishment and started functions of integration center for preschool children (third-country nationals), in this way, making it possible for children at an early age to gain the skills to communicate each other, creating a respectful attitude
Project “Year of Intercultural Dialogue in region Jekabpils”
Time: August – December, 2008
Funding: total funding LVL 3000, main sponsor: ĪUMSILS
Location: region Jēkabpils, Latvia
Audience: residents of Jēkabpils region
Main activities: an enlightening seminar, gathering information, creation of questionnaire and mediatize. In the end was organized an event and published informative material about the issue of Jekabpils living other nationalities
Project “Join!”
Time: August – November, 2008
Funding: total funding LVL 400, main sponsor: Jēkabpils local government
Location: region Jēkabpils, Latvia
Audience: residents of Jēkabpils region
Main activities: training program for potential association volunteers
Project “Let’s live green!”
Time: July – September, 2008
Funding: total funding LVL 400, main sponsor: Jēkabpils local government
Location: Jēkabpils, Latvia
Audience: residents of the city Jēkabpils
Main activities: campaign for healthy and environmentally friendly lifestyle
Project “Respect for history – basis for the upgrowth”
Time: March – September, 2008
Funding: total funding LVL 150, main sponsor: Jēkabpils local government
Location: parish Rubene, region Jēkabpils, Latvia
Audience: residents of Jēkabpils region
Main activities: organizing joint work for environmental clean-up in Lūcāni cemetery in Rubene parish involving local initiative work groups and residents of Jēkabpils region
Project “Looking for good works”
Time: December, 2006 – September 1st, 2007
Funding: total funding LVL 2880, main sponsor: ĪUMSILS
Location: region Jēkabpils, Latvia
Audience: residents of Jēkabpils region
Main activities: informative seminar, 5 bicycle tours in Jēkabpils region. In the end was organized an event and published informative material about theme “Good work performers”
Project “Agency of development “Pieci” for city Jēkabpils and townspeople”
Time: June, 2006 – August, 2007
Project aim: To raise young people interest in meaningful free time activities, to promote residents of Jēkabpils city involvement nongovernmental organization (NGO’s) activities
Funding: total funding LVL 1000, main sponsor: Jēkabpils local council
Location: Jēkabpils, Latvia
Audience:
Direct: Jēkabpils city young people and citizens (city festival participants)
Indirect: Society as a whole
Main activities: interactive and informative event, informative erudition tourist trail with elements for the young generation, Jēkabpils citizen survey in order to ascertain their interest concerning the work of NGO’s, informative billboard for Jēkabpils citizens about the opportunities to participate in activities of public organizations
Project “Open for cooperation”
Time: December, 2006 – May 1st, 2007
Funding: total funding LVL 3360, main sponsor: ĪUMSILS
Location: region Jēkabpils, Latvia
Audience: Jēkabpils region contingent of NGO’s (direct target audience – to 45 NGO’s contingent , indirect – all NGO’s staff)
Main activities: Interactive trainings for NGO’s contingent, prepared a report about improvement of co-operation in-between NGO’s in city Jēkabpils and in the area
Integration in Latvia