WE FACILITATE CHANGE AND EMPOWER YOUTH, GRASS-ROOTS, AND COMMUNITIES THROUGH INNOVATIVE PROJECT DESIGN

Artivist Stafetë

“Artivist Stafëte” is a project funded under the grant for Support to Active Citizenship by the European Commission and is funded by the European Union. The project is implemented locally by Dutch organizations MasterPeace and Stichting art.1, in partnership with Open Mind Spectrum Albania (OMSA) and ACT for SOCIETY Center. This project aims to improve the environment for active citizenship and civic participation by providing civil society sector organizations (CSOs) with tools to grant-marginalized groups and side-lined voices in Albania with instruments to infiltrate the mainstream narrative and democratic dialogue at a local, Albanian and European level.

Mobile Open Culture and Innovation

The Mobile Open Culture and Innovation Hub is a long-term initiative that we launch with our partners from Montenegro, Kosovo and Germany.MOCI is a cultural mobile hub on the roads of the Balkan and a community platform for open culture and creative production.In the field MOCI is a Pop-Up space that travels around to deliver different workshops on creative skills and community building, to support local actors in developing their ideas for local impact and share challenges and solutions along the road.

In the digital world MOCI is a platform that highlights small initiatives and people, their skills, needs and challenges to connect them to peers in the region. It also offers a growing set of best practices and tutorials in local languages that is open for everyone. The pilot phase of MOCI is supported by the European Cultural Foundation through the Culture of Solidarity Fund.

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Precious Plastic

With Precious Plastic Albania we created the first DIY-Recycling Workspace in Albania that we grow into a Social Enterprise for unique design items made from 100% locally sourced plastic waste.

We offer free educational workshops for schools, youth groups and any interested individual and build a community of collection points and active citizens tackling plastic waste pollution in Albania.

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Vila 3 - Cultural & Social Space

Together with Hapesire Kulturore Uzina we turned an old Vila at the heart of Tirana into an open cultural and social center. 

As Tirana and Albania lacks civic and cultural spaces we provide a space for independent culture and arts, social exchange and learning. The Vila 3 is a self-managed space open to all creatives, social actors, independent groups and every citizen.

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Young Farmers Network

Together with members of our international networks and local young volunteers we create formats of community building and non-formal learning journeys around local challenges. We want to create team of young experts and practicioners that deepend their knowledge and practical experience in different fields to become peer-educators and action-driven teams in the future that support each other’s small projects and communities in need through collective action and project development.

With the support of the Robert Bosch Foundation and iac Berlin we implemented the first workshops on permaculture and sustainable gardening in Pellumbas in autumn 2020.

As part of the GIZ SRD Program we enable a group of young farmers in the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Value Chain to improve their marketing and business diversification skills and to grow together as a community by identifying and addressing shared needs and challenges.

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Riaktiv

With the support of UNDP Albania and the municipality of Rrogozhina we are creating the first self-organised youth group in Rrogozhina. Together with students from two high schools we will start monitoring environmental pollution between Rrogozhina and the Shkumbini Delta. Students will learn how to self-organise and create their own activities as well as campaign and advocate for better waste management and environmental protection.