An EEA Grants project, chosen as best practice by the EU
Network against Hatred Project, funded by the EEA Grants within the Spanish Active Citizenship Programme, has been chosen by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) as one of the best practices from across the EU on how to combat hate crime.
Innovation to tackle unemployment or social exclusion
A small association, Jovesolides, had a dream: to apply innovation and creativity to solve social problems. The project, funded by the EEA Grants within Active Citizenship Programme, has grown and more than 500 entities have joined CreActiva Network. Even some of their groundbreaking proposals have been included in political parties’ programmes.
A tool to improve youth employability
A project funded by the EEA Grants has developed an online tool to certify the skills developed by volunteers in their social work with the objective to improve their CV and hence, their opportunities in the labour market.
Strengthening NGOs to change the world
13 million people lives at risk of social exclusion in Spain. NGOs play a key role to fight this problem, but economic crisis has also taken its toll in these organizations. EEA Grants has contributed with 4.6 million euros to strengthen their role in Spain through a programme with excellent results.
Empowering people with cerebral palsy
The most positive outcome of a project is the participants satisfaction. In the case of the ASPACE Active Citizenship Network, 80% of people with cerebral palsy considers that their participation in the network have helped them to acquire more practical tools to improve their daily life.
Active Citizenship Programme results
NGO Platform of Social Action will present the results of the EEA Grants Active Citizenship Programme in the closing event “Sharing learning” to be held on 17 March in Madrid.
Spanish Third Social Action Sector, under review
The NGO Platform of Social Action launched the Research “Third Social Action Sector in Spain” which offers an innovative diagnosis and prospective analysis of the challenges ahead.
"Nothing for us without us"
Do not work FOR people with cerebral palsy but WITH people with cerebral palsy. This is the philosophy behind the publication “Active Citizenship ASPACE: Promoting participation”, a project financed by the EEA Grants.
Strategic alliances to improve NGO results
The most effective way to address the defence of social rights and the sustainability of NGOs projects is through building national and international networks, according to the attendants to the International Seminar “Strategic alliances to improve NGO results” within Active Citizenship Programme.
Building a real coexistence in Europe
How can European societies meet the challenge of intercultural coexistence? More than 80 NGOs tried to give an answer to this question in the International Seminar “Intercultural Coexistence in Europe: diversity management models”, organized by the NGO Platform of Social Action and co-financed by the EEA Grants.
300 people will meet in Valencia to change the world
The II International Forum for Social Innovation will be held in Valencia on 21-22 September, a unique meeting in Spain where participants will share ideas and projects in order to improve our world, within the EEA Grants Active Citizenship Programme.
EEA Grants 'Reconoce' project, one of the best 100 ideas of the year
The Spanish magazine Actualidad Económica has selected Reconoce project, within the EEA Grants Active Citizenship Programme, as one of the best 100 ideas of the year.
Labs for social change
New times require new solutions for social problems. That is the basis for social innovation, which Red CreActiva, a project within EEA Grants Active Citizenship Programme, aims to boost in Spain through training activities.
A new future for a slum in Valencia
A Project manager, a social worker and two volunteers are bringing hope to a marginal neighbourhood in a village in Valencia. It is the project “Sharing diversities, generating bonds”, within the EEA Grants Active Citizenship Programme.
United against hate crime
Spanish Social Action NGOs platform publishes the conclusions on the International Conference against hate speech and hate crime held in Madrid on the 27th November 2014.
Voluntary work, a springboard for employment
Voluntary work considerably improves chances of finding a job. This is the main conclusion drawn from a study within the Reconoce project, which aims to showcase this activity, in the framework of the EEA Grants Active Citizenship Programme.
The NGO Platfom launches the Spanish Third Sector Study
NGO Platform of Social Action, in the framework of the EEA Grants Active Citizenship Programme, has launched the “Spanish Third Sector Study” which aims to uncover the impact of the crisis on the Third Sector and the current and future challenges.
An embrace for Roma equality
"Roma-nize you, cos I can’t alone/Open the door/Look at the sky/Break the deadlock/ Let’s start again". This song is the perfect summary of Gitanizate Project, an initiative to raise awareness about Roma situation in Spain through information, rapprochement… and hugs.
Madrid, European capital against Hate Crime
Madrid becomes last 27 November the European capital of fighting against hate, hosting the international conference “Together against hate speech and hate crime”, organized by the NGO Platform of Social Action and financed by the EEA Grants.
A web page to change the world
Imagine being able to have access with the click of a button to when, how and what are the members of the Spanish Parliament doing related to poverty and social justice. This is the base of TIPI project, one of the financed within the EEA Grants Active Citizenship Programme.
Participate in the conference against hate in Europe
NGO Platform of Social Action organizes on 27 November the International Conference “Together against Hate Speech and Hate Crime”, with the aim of generating mechanisms to enable civil society organizations participate in the design, creation and promotion of policies on security and justice.
Neither sorry nor alms, civic responsibility
What is the image of voluntary work in the media? Is the society aware of the volunteers ongoing work or we only think about them at times of crisis? Highlighting and strengthening the voluntary work is the objective of one of the 38 projects selected within the EEA Grants Active Citizenship Programme, because they are a key element for a better society.
Fighting online Hate Speech
Would you report your best friend if he shows you a cyberbullying video? Would you join your friends' pranks about a foreign student in a forum? Online hate begins at school, so there should also begin education against it. No Hate Speech movement is spreading over Europe.
Helping those who help
The NGO Sector in Spain is made up of around 250.000 organisations eager to help others, but the economic crisis has aggravated its weakness in terms of internal capacity and impact. The EEA Grants Active Citizenship Programme has just launched 38 projects all around Spain to strengthen NGOs capacity and reinforce them as vehicles of social change. The ultimate goal? A fairer and more equal society.
From Triana to the nazi camps: the Roma long battle
Camaron de la Isla in the soul and Paco de Lucía in the memory. Full of pride and complaint. Full of ‘joie de vivre’ that difficult times can’t extinguish. But, above all, determined to prove that they are the only masters of their fate, Spanish gipsies celebrated last April 8 their International Day with the Roma’s Culture Awards 2014 organized by Spanish Roma Culture Institute and the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.