PROJECT NAME:  “Gaelic Adventure” PLACE: Galway City DURATION: October 1, 2017 – August 1, 2018 HOSTING ORGANIZATION: “Galway Regional Youth Federation Ltd” PROJECT AIM: To empower and assist young people in their personal and social development, to provide a safe and supportive environment for young people to realize and achieve their full potential. WHO CAN PARTICIPATE: The project is for active, motivated young people at the age of 18-30 with the conversational level of English. TO APPLY FOR THE PROJECT you need to send CV and a motivation letter in English to the following-email address: evs.sending@yic.am APPLICATION DEADLINE is Augus...


When: August 17-25, 2017 Where: Toros, Shirak region Aim: To bring young people together in order to create their own piece of culture by merging national musical components with intercultural dialogue and learning because music is so much more than just tunes and melodies – it is about a common language, connection, expression, celebration, culture and friendship. Description: Gyumri“Youth Initiative Centre” NGO(Armenia) in cooperation with “Fishbowl Youth” (Ireland) is hosting a 7 days international youth exchange from 17-25 August in Toros. The project, which is entitled “Inspire through Music” is being implemented in the frames of Erasmus+ pr...


TITLE: Rethinking, Cooperating, Sharing PLACE: Marseille, France DATES: November 18-25, 2017 THE MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT: To help young people from Armenian, Turkey, France and Germany to recognize each other’s history, cultures, traditions, and find shared values as well as differences between them, as a basis for understanding, friendship and acceptance; through giving them the chance to work, and live together and to create common experiences. To develop the media and social networking skills of young people and to raise their awareness on the alternative media tools for self-expression by means of providing them fundamental skills on blogging, pho...


The Gyumri Youth Initiative Center NGO, jointly with the United Nations Population Fund Armenia (UNFPA) celebrated International Youth Day with great enthusiasm this year too. August 12 became a holiday due to a range of events under the title “Gyumri- city of young people 2017” among which were the following: Youth (non) Conference that took place (venue - Gyumri Technology Centre) / Youth Camp, Flash Mob Dance (venue: Theatrical Square) and public concert with participation of band “Armine Qocharyan and Friends” (venue: Theatrical Square), the end of the events was marked by the release of 150 kites (Dream Light) to the sky. Furthermore, ahead the events dedicat...


25 September 2017, Yerevan the EU small grant scheme contracts signing ceremony took place and during which The European Union funded Strong Civil Society Organisations for Stronger Armenia project has awarded small grants for 17 new projects for Armenian CSOs․ We are glad to inform that one of the projects awarded with small grant was “Open youth work: Empowering young people in Gyumri” presented by Gyumri Youth Initiative Centre and Caucasus Research Resource Center-Armenia Foundation. Open Youth Centre will be founded in Gyumri in the framework of the project. More information will be provided soon        See more...


PLACE: Marseille, France DURATION: October 1st, 2017 - March 1st, 2018 (6 month) HOSTING ORGANIZATION: “ECOOPMED” NGO THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT: to raise awareness of local youth on such ideas as solidarity, education, culture, international development and humanism. VOLUNTEERS'TASKS: . to support the team of a charity shop in selecting and selling the goods (donations); . to do interventions in schools to sensibilise for the actions of the organization; . to support the organization in international charity projects. WHO CAN PARTICIPATEC: active and initiative young people aged 18-25, who have basic French knowledge, are motivated to invest their t...


TITLE: Inspire through Music PLACE: Toros, Armenia DATES: August 17-25, 2017 THE AIM OF THE PROJECT is to bring young people together in order to create their own piece of culture by merging national musical components with inter cultural dialogue and learning because music is so much more than just tunes and melodies - it is about a common language, connection, expression, celebration, culture and friendship. WHO CAN PARTICIPATE: 18-25 years old active young people and youth leaders who have musical skills (amateur/professional) Working language is ENGLISH. To apply for the project, please go through this link THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS: ...


On September 18, a Youth Forum took place in Yerevan and the Gyumri Youth Initiative Centre was present in the event. The aim of the forum was to contribute to the development of 2018-2022 Armenian National Youth Policy ensuring stakeholder participation in the process. The main part of the forum was held in 5 separate thematic groups. One of them, ''Youth work and lifelong learning'' group was fasilized by YIC Board Chairperson Anna Yeghoyan and YIC NGO Presedent Artur Najaryan. Beside, YIC Mobility Projects Cordinator Valya Martirosyan presented Erasmus+ Youth. Info Centre Armenia in the "International Youth Cooperation, Intercultural Dialogue and Youth Movement" ...


When: July 2017 – July 2018 Aim: To promote volunteerism and link art and intercultural learning for the empowerment and self-development of young people. Volunteer’s Tasks: To plan and run the “Handicraft” Club twice a month for the young people aged 13-30 from Gyumri and Shirak region, to support in organizational activities of "Intercultural Club" and "Friday’s Cafe", to plan, prepare and run promotional activities about volunteering called “Volunteering Month with YIC”, to organize a photo exhibition, an open air movie screenings and presentation of their culture, food, dances and so on, to design YIC’s monthly newsletter. . .        ...


TITLE: Eurovisions PLACE: Savigno (Bologna), Italy DATES: October 17-24, 2017 PROJECT AIMS at gathering young people with fewer opportunities around the topic of music and empower them with new competences to make use of their skills and abilities in labour market. The project foresees to share musical and IT skills among each other following the approaches of “peer-learning” and “learning by doing”. Participants will be able to create their own music and share their culture with each other. Special discussions will be devoted to rural life and Erasmus + programme opportunities. WHO CAN PARTICIPATE: 18-25 years old active young people and youth leaders...