Building Bridges Cultural Association was founded in 2008 to promote a spirit and community integration and to foster European culture awareness among the youth. Building Bridges is presented at local level as a tool to assist and support the implementation of non formal education courses and improving knowledge of European labour system practices. We organise courses, visits and meetings, European events for public agencies on policies concerning youth , mobility, sports , local economic development , culture and cooperation with developing countries. We believe that transnational experience could offer young people the opportunity to grow within a European dimension through their personal and professional skills , so that they could become main actors of the European future.

Since its foundation, the association has participated in various advocacy and promotion of European mobility and its members have sufficient mobility experience as trainers. Our aims are:

-To build bridges and promote the social construction of Europe

-To build bridges and promote intercultural dialogue and favour understanding of foreign cultures.

-Plan bridges using European projects to promote participation.

-Step on bridges to support any cultural, educative and/or artistic expression based on the previous values.

 

TARGET GROUP

We work with organisations in the fields of culture, education and youth, so we have an ample target group. In general, we focus on anyone interested in art, culture, heritage and Europe issues, specially those looking for an experience abroad and in need of a grant or funding.

This group involves people of all ages and backgrounds but we are more specialised in youth: most of our users are long term unemployed people, with very few opportunities to get funding for developing studying and working activities in Spain or abroad.

 

ACTIVITIES

All our activities pursue our aim: provide information and counselling to young people according to the following principles:

– Promote intercultural dialogue and favour understanding of foreign cultures.

– Educate young people towards an active European citizenship.

– Support any cultural, educative and/or artistic expression based on the previous values.

– Promote the social construction of Europe