Slovakia

A.D.E.L – Association for Development, Education and Labour
Stropkov, Slovakia
Contact: www.adelslovakia.org, info@adelslovakia.org

We are organization, which is trying to create opportunities for young people who would like to be an active, try and learn something new and gain some experience and knowledge for personal and professional development. We want to enrich the educational, social and cultural life of young people living in our country, mainly young people with fewer opportunities and coming from Eastern Slovakia. We believe that young people must become a driving force in building the society in which they live and therefore we create various opportunities in order to help shape a generation that is determined to change our country/and world for the better.

Our main goals that we are trying to promote with a variety of projects and activities are:

• to increase employment of young people and to support their personal and proffesional development;
• to organize and mediate trainings, youth exchanges, workcamps,  seminars, study mobilities, internships and volunteering programs abroad;
• to encourage active citizenship, civic participation, voluntary and civic initiatives and to emphasize their importance in the society;
• to stimulate the creation of new and innovative ideas as the basis for entrepreneurial initiatives of young people, to motivate them and support towards his own business;
• to encourage the responsible attitute to the nature and animals, promote a healthy lifestyle and protect the environment;
• to promote constructive debate on the EU, to raise legal awareness of citizens, protect human rights and to watch the transparency in the allocation of public resources;
• to endorse the elimination of gender stereotypes and promote equality of opportunity for all …

…and thus build and develop civil society based on the principles of democracy, freedom, pluralistic and rule of law, justice, responsibility and solidarity.

We are very active in the field of youth and adult education as holders but also as partners of different kind of projects in our country and abroad. The key for us is to work on both local and international projects and we try to cover broad scale of themes and topics according to what our target group finds interesting. We focus mainly on youth participation, intercultural understanding, active citizenship, entrepreneurship, sport, healthy lifestly, peacebuilding, but also art and culture.