Chieti, Italy

Arci Chieti is an Italian non-profit NGO founded in 2002, which works for the mobility and empowerment of disadvantaged young people. Arci Chieti works on the themes of active citizenship, creative expression, inclusion, multimedia, sustainable development, and the promotion of Human Rights in local and international projects.

Center for Environment is an organization of professionals and activists dedicated to the protection and improvement of the environment, advocating principles of sustainable development and greater public participation in decision making about the environment. Their main areas of focus are biodiversity and protected areas, energy use and climate change, and sustainable transport.

Les Récollets is a youth club, which has official government recognition and is therefore funded by the youth and culture sector. The youth club works with young people of 12-26 years old with the main goal of developing with them active and responsible citizenship through the arts and socio-cultural projects.

The EDEN centre is a non-profit NGO that works on sustainable development and environmental protection. They carry out this work through education, awareness raising and capacity building with the community, young people, local government and businesses.

Kinderring is a non-profit NGO whose work is focussed on creating structured free time activities in collaboration with young people, implemented on the local district level. Their projects are designed to build the capacities of young people educate themselves and to act independently. Another focus is youth volunteering in schools, which is aimed at helping schoolchildren to participate in their communities, and for example to fight against racism, fascism etc.

Terracoste is a cooperative, which manages protected areas, and aims to develop them through the provision of environmental education, promotion of eco-tourism. In addition to promoting professional and scientific training courses Terracoste works through culture and recreation to reach a wide audience of children and adults with educational workshops, volunteering events, tours, seminars and workshops.

Elektrika is an NGO specialized in cultural enrichment, and it exists on the independent European arts scene where it publishes different types of books with both illustrated and written stories/responses on a given theme. Other activities that Elektrika is involved in are the organisation of different cultural and social events, including concert and festival organisation in their local area. Elektrika works as incubator of ideas, working on the principle that any idea can be realised and that everything is possible. 

Zdravo da Ste is a non-profit NGO and youth centre that works to support the development of the community and civil society. The youth centre provides a wide range of educational, arts and sports activities and courses. Zdravo da Ste focuses on the themes of Children’s Rights, as well as youth mobility and the development of civil society.