Stepanavan Youth Center

Objectives:

• Provide possibilities for young Armenians to share their own culture with their peers and to explore different cultures
• Provide a better capacity of participation in social interaction, and the recognition of the common heritage of humanity and the advantages of cultural diversity for solving local issues
• Develop and promote friendship, mutual understanding, tolerance, respect, harmony and dialog among youngsters from different countries

Methods: summer camps, international events, exchange programs, publications, other

International Projects:

• “European Dinner in the Odesseas Homeland” youth event in the islands Kefalonia and Itaca, Greece (15-24 May, 2008)
• “Minorities Integrated in Europe” seminar in Armenia (30 April -5 May, 2008)
• “Acting for Drug Free Life”, TC, Armenia (17-23 January, 2008)
• European Cooperation in Armenia, Stepanavan and Yerevan, Armenia (6-10 October, 2007)
• “Stopm - Bridge to Europe”, youth exchange in Zarasai, Lithuania, (23-30 September, 2007)
• “Diversity is a Name of a Woman: Youth Creative Proposals about Women's Condition in the World”, Stepanavan, Armenia (17-27 August, 2007)
• Mainstreaming Intercultural Learning in Youth Work, United Kingdom (24-30 May)
• “Europeans Meet in Caucasus” Contact Making Seminar, Georgia, (26 April - 1 May, 2007)
• “Connecting Cultures for Positive Change” (September 2006-May 2007)
• “Youth across Europe - New partnerships for a common future Contact Making Seminar”, Georgia, (14-19 December, 2006)
• “Diversity is Our Strength”, Armenia, (6-13 August, 2006)
• “European Charter - a Model for Local Success Within Youth NGOs”, Bulgaria, (18-27 July, 2006)
• Singing Europe: International Youth Event, Poland (September, 2005)

Description:

Each of us is unique and this makes the world a wonderful place to live in. Dances, songs and art are universal languages of communication which will be used for development of mutual understanding and respect, tolerance and dialog and cultural dimension of citizenship among young people throughout the world. We aim to develop tolerance towards cultural, national and racial differences.