Memoria de actividades de la asociación Building Bridges, entidad de envío, coordinación y acogida de voluntarios europeos por el programa Erasmus+, becas , intercambios y cursos Erasmus+. Más información en: http://www.yeseuropa.org

1. BUILDING BRIDGES ASSOCIATION Annual report 2016
Building
Bridges
ASSOCIATION
Annual
report
2016
INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE THIS YEAR WE ACHIEVED:
We were founded in 2008 with the aim of giving
advice to the demands of information on
european and intercultural information
Exchange.
Abusing on the concept by which we were
created the main goals for our association are:
• Building up bridges to promote the
European social construction.
• Bridge a gap encouraging an
intercultural dialogue for a better understanding
and knowledge of other cultures.
• Planning bridges through projects
management to foster the citizens participation,
specially young people.
• Leaving a mark supporting any
cultural, educational or artistic manifestación
base don the above mentionned projects.
We are an experienced association, our personal
career and experience is wide. We have thought
about creating this association to give shape and
to have a closer collaboration that already
existed between its partners for more than 10
years.
SECTORS OF INTERÉST
Intercultural learning, youth exchange, youth
and adults permanent learning, non formal
education, general information for young
people, participation, vocational training,
prevention of racims, prevention of social
exclusión, youth communication, environmental
projects, protection and fostering of cultural and
artistic movements, citizens participation, etc.
The association was created to encourage
integration and promotion of European culture
between young european people. We tend to be
a support for the fulfillment of vocational
training learning, learning of languages and the
general knowledge of the european labour
market.
+150 EVS volunteers:
More than 100 Spanish volunteers have enjoyed an
Erasmus + European Volunteer Service in several EU
countries. They carry out social, educational, cultural
and welfare work of great importance and recognition.
+100 Erasmus+ grants:
We sent more than 100 participants to different
training courses, exchanges, study visits, seminars,
practical work and observation visits to several
European countries under the Erasmus + Programme.
About us
by Building Bridges Association

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Our members are our greatest asset for
its varied origins and the experience
they bring to the group:
Herminio González: Technician in
environmental management (Madrid).
Angela Naranjo: Political scientist
(Madrid)
Ruth Prieto: Administrative (Madrid)
Cesar Rodriguez: Political Scientist
(Madrid)
Simona Caminiti: Technique in
European projects (Madrid)
Antonio Hernández: Fundraiser and
technical cooperation (Mallorca).
Alfonso Garcia: Scientist CSIC
(Granada).
Tania Anjos: Scientific University
of Granada (Granada).
Itxaso Irazola: Painter (Elorrio,
Basque Country)
Julia Gomez: Doctor of
Psychology (Barcelona)
Esther Urizar: Bachelor in Tourism
(Elorrio, Basque Country)
Cristina Jaso: Economist
(Pamplona, Navarra)
Gorka Martnikorena:
Pharmaceutical (Pamplona,
Navarra)
Javier Mora: sociocultural animator
(Italy)
Baldomero Molina: Cooperant
Consultant in Panama.
Naima Gherdaoui: Cooperating in Nepal
and Mauritania
Noel Dalla: Engineer (Brazil)
Roberto Sanz: Teacher (Madrid)
Patricia Nunez: Journalist (Madrid)
Fabrizio de Gregorio: Consultant (Rome)
Very easy!. If you like to travel, meet, learn,
move around the world, you can be a member of
the association! .
If you're going to participate in an international
activity funded by Erasmus +, such an exchange,
training course, seminar, study visits, etc ... you
have to pay the annual membership fee of 40 €.
The membership fee includes the possibility of
going to this activity and request more
international scholarships Erasmus + activities
and receive updates on new scholarships and
opportunities for international volunteering
information.
If you want to repeat an international activity
within the same year, you only pay € 20 for each
activity you want to achieve.
This fee does not apply in any case to European
volunteer, who do not pay any fee.
All our activities have the support and financing
of Erasmus + Program and the Europe for
Citizens program.
If you want to be part of an international team,
write an email to asociacionbb@gmail.com and
you enroll as a member of the association.
Todas nuestras actividades cuentan con el apoyo
y cofinanciación del programa Erasmus+ y del
Programa Europa de los Ciudadanos.
MY NEXT STEP:
Members
How to become a member

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Non formal education
We develop seminars, courses, informative talks,
workshops and many other non formal activities in
cooperation with several public and private
organisations.
Consultancy services
Are you an organization ?. Are you interested in
participating in European funding programs in the field of
education, culture and youth ?. We can help you write your
proposals and make your projects reality. We work for
various public and private institutions.
QUICK FACTS IN 2014-2015
25 coursesOrganised in high schools, foundations, regional and local
governments, youth centres and Education fairs. .
600 studentsStudents have enjoyed dinamic training activities taught by
professionals and experts with more than 10 years
experience in international mobility programmes.
MORE INFORMATION
If you want to ask about our training and
consulting services, please write to:
asociacionbb@gmail.com
YES EUROPA YES EUROPE is a portal for
support and advice on international mobility
and European projects promoted by the
Building Bridges Association, based in Madrid.
Our group is composed of professionals
delighted to help and advise private and public
entities in order to write and manage
international projects.
Until present day, thanks to several cooperation
agreements with public and private institutions
we actively participate in international
networks.
We were able to carry out many projects under
the old Youth in Action, Citizens Programme
and Lifelong Learning Programme. Now we
continue our work with Erasmus+, Europe for
Citizens and Creative Europe programmes.
The main goal of our group is to promote
international mobility and raise awareness
among young Spanish and European people on
topics such as social inclusion, integration and
promotion of active citizenship, using only non-
formal education.
Among the projects developed we include the
European Voluntary Service, youth exchanges,
international trainings, Erasmus+ traineeships
and so on.
These projects have many young people able to
take advantage of international mobility
experience, now it's your turn!.
Most projects are open to young people
between 13 and 30 years and allow
unforgettable experiences traveling and living
without many expenses (in many cases projects
covered the accommodation, food and much of
the total trip).
Our group is also a member of several European
networks of expert trainers and project
managers, with the common goal of: offer
young and old the opportunity to access
mobility programs in educational, vocational,
educational and cultural field to
promote cultural exchange,
improve personal skills
and practice English.
What we do?
YesEuropa is the web where we
spread all European opportunities
of interest to young people

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ACTIVITIES
All the activities we offer are based on the aims
of our association: to provide information and
guidance to young people with the following
principles:
-Promote intercultural dialogue to facilitate a
better understanding of other cultures.
- Educate youth on the European citizenship
values.
- Support all cultural, educational and / or
artistic expression based on the above values.
- Promote the social construction of Europe.
We believe that transnational experience could
offer young people the opportunity to grow
within a European dimension thanks to their
personal and professional skills, so that they
could play a main role of the European future.
Building Bridges promoted different activities
and projects, mainly in the field of European
programs such as "Youth in Action" (European
Voluntary Service, Youth for Europe: Youth
Exchanges, Youth Initiatives, Training of youth
workers), LLP Lifelong Learning Programme
"Leonardo da Vinci "(training work: mobility -
PLM / IVT / VETPRO), and others, for the
following purposes: to offer young people the
opportunity to access mobility programs in
academic, professional and cultural level to
increase understanding between cultures and
different systems ; promote the meeting
between cultures and linguistic deepening in a
local context, promoting this dynamic mode
intercultural learning and understanding;
promote responsibility and active participation
of young people in society. Now with Erasmus+
we follow the same aims as previuos years.
We have created a web with European voluntary
opportunities for young Spanish, with
information on training, internships, exchanges
and employment in Spain and Europe
(http://www.yeseuropa.org).
Our main activities are:
1.Youth information: We worked as
volunteers in Europe with the Erasmus
and Leonardo projects. We would like
other European young people have the
chance of living in another European
country. It was a real change for us years
ago thanks to the information we had.
Our goal now is to counsel and to
encourage them to start their own
adventure. We are devoted to the
european youth information. We have all
experienced that years ago. There are
many channels of information on
european announcements so we tend to
spread them within the young people.
2. Counselling on youth
opportunities:
Our main goal is counseling, informing,
guiding and supporting the young graduates
to continue their studies in order to have
access to the labour market.
Within the activities oriented to entry the
labour market, Building Bridges helps:
I. Managing and broadcasting job
offers
II. Informing about self employement
and counseling for the creation of
new companies.
We are aware of the markets requests for
young people and graduates. All the
members of the association have already
experiences dificulties when they were going
to be hired in a competitive market and in
process of recession.
3, RESOURCES ON CULTURE FOR YOUNG
PEOPLE
We are already creating a web page with
updated information and new
communication channels used by young
people on internships, grants, aids, festivals,
etc… related to culture and the artistic
creation. Months ago we were aware that if it
even existed many information on that field
the young creators do not find what they are
looking for.
We want to work not just as an information
centre but we are working on different
communication channels (Youtube,
Facebbok, Twitter, Twenty, etc) to spread
and Exchange ideas and information for the
professionals working in the field of culture.
4.TRAINING
We offer training courses in the field of the
cultural management, as for instance:
• Creation of cultural companies
• Strategies for searching
information on the web
• English in the cultural field
• Searching professional
opportunities in the United
Kingdom for young people working
in the field of culture.
5. Cultural activities
All these years our association has developed
many intercultural exchanges in the local and
internacional field giving young people the
opportunity to be responsible and to get
involved and to participate actively in
society.
From the beginning we have taken care of
the training and volunteers through the
participation in courses and seminars
promoted by other companies and
organisation in some other activities.
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We are sending, host and coordinating EVS
organisation within Erasmus+ and Youth in
Action Programme since 2009 with an
accrediattion renewed until 2020. This year
2016 we will send over 130 Spanish
volunteers and receive 6 from other
European countries thanks to approval of
Erasmus + grants.
The same Erasmus+ National Agency (Injuve)
has approved four European projects linked
to European youth volunteering in close
cooperation with the Council City of Madrid,
organisation of intermacional seminar for
youth workers, exchanges, training courses,
etc ...
Building Bridges has European Voluntary
Service tutors and mentors since 2008, one
of the first Spanish official accredited EVS
tutors.
The organisation also has managers of
European projects and European networks
and members of Team Europe, with
extensive experience in managing European
voluntary service, European networks and
network projects financing.
We promote a website with European
voluntary opportunities for young Spaniards,
with direct information and volunteer
opportunities, Erasmus + courses,
exchanges, internships and employment in
Spain and Europe
(http://www.yeseuropa.org) scholarships.
Finally, we actively work on projects
approved under other European
programmes such as Europe for Citizens and
Creative Europe.
We also act as consultants for other non
profit and public organisations to ensure
their participation in European programmes,
asisting them in the writing of projects,
finding participants, promotion, delivery of
results, and so on.
REDES EUROPEAS
We belong to the Citizens for Europe
EYCA and networks that promote values
citizens and all activities related to culture
and democratic values.
Our members have had the pleasure of
meeting at different moments of local
members from EURODESK network . In
consequence, we were able to share
experiences and plan new initiatives to
improve the system of youth information,
at local, national and international level.
OUR NETWORK: EVEREUROPE
EverEurope: international
mobility
The result of these international projects, we have
created an international network of institutions
participating in a mobility tool called EverEurope
(http://www.evereurope.org) with the gathering
of 8 international entities.
Opportunities
Ever Europe is also a portal for young people
where they can find training opportunities,
volunteering, internships and employment in
Europe.
EverEurope network
We have 8 partners from 4 countries, with
several NGOs across Europe. In EverEurope
we built a specific partnership with trusted
entities through this portal.
EverEurope gives organizations the
opportunity to improve their own projects
and to generate good ideas and that are
sustainable over time, beyond the project life
cycle.
European projects experience

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IMPACT
We have our own database of contacts with
over 80,000 direct contacts in the field of
culture, education and youth, in addition to
over 40.000 of followers on social networks.
MEDIA
Moreover, we have been repeatedly echo
news where our activities have been
referenced. We have also written numerous
articles for the media, as well as letters to the
Director. For this reason we ensure a
considerable impact on national and regional
media and even local level. Recently, one of
the most important national newspapers
published an article about us (Read more).
AWARDS
Building Bridges, has recently received
recognition for his work with young people
thorough his portal YesEuropa, being
honored by the Citizens Association Awards
2015.Premios Ciudadanos 2015.
Building
Bridges
ASSOCIATION
[Calle Benítez 5, 1º E]
[28042, M;adrid]
Status: Association
Office address (new): Calle de la Cruzada 3, 28013 Madrid
Registered in National Associations Registry, nº 590729
Contact: Jorge / Antonio
Web: www.yeseuropa.org
Tel. +34 673 402 139
E-mail: asociacionbb@gmail.com
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