The document describes the Association for Initiatives and Continuous Development (A4ACTION), an NGO created in 2012 in Romania. A4ACTION's core aims are promoting art, culture and tourism among youth, as well as running educational, volunteer and personal development programs. It has coordinated several national and international youth projects focused on topics like the environment, biodiversity, traditions and alternatives. Going forward, A4ACTION aims to involve more young people in programs like European Voluntary Service and youth exchanges to build capacity and support community development in northern Ilfov District, Romania.

1. WE ARE
A4ACTION~
WE ARE A4ACTION~
A4ACTION - Association for Initiatives and
Continuous Development was created in
October 2012, with the aim to promote art
and culture, to promote Romanian tourism
within youngsters, to deploy educational
programs; children, youth and adults
ongoing programs; civil involvement,
environment and social protection actions
and personal development programs.

2. A4ACTION~
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OUR CORE
IS: INVOLVED
INVOLVED IN
YOUTH
PROGRAMS
INVOLVED IN
COMMUNITY
INVOLVED IN
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
INVOLVED IN
EDUCATION
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Project management expertise of the person
responsible for recruiting and supporting
participants, key qualifications of the
organisation’s board/leadership. These two
sections (the one above this one and this one)
should contain the coherence between the staff
and activities also considering the connection
of these towards the topic of the project.
Our members have been actively involved in
projects management from the proposal writing
until the application implementation and with
this experience they will add value to the
application . In addition to the project writing
and implementation, we have several members
that are involved in team coordination and this
project is a great opportunity for them to learn
new ways to lead the others by learning.
We consider that
the experience of
our association is
represented by the
experience of each
member that forms
the team.
Local projects: “Montaniada- Youth
mobilization” – 3rd, 4th and 5th
editions, “EcoTerra- The green dream
for a different world” – 1st edition;
”Come with us to bring a ray of light”
1st edition; Alternative (Project co
financed by the Youth in Action
program Action 1.1 Youth Exchange); “
Let’s be creative “ – project financed by
the Ilfov District Directive for Sport
and Youth; “Abilities for life”– project
financed by the Ilfov District Directive
for Sport and Youth; “Inner Wisdom” -
project financed by the Bucharest City
Directive for Sport and Youth;
A4ACTION Youth Center - project
financed by own funds.
International projects: “Respect the
nature… respect yourself! “ (Project co
financed by the Youth in Action
program Action 1.1 Youth Exchange).
In October 2012, we have submitted as
a non-formal group A4Action
supported by ATGR, the project “
Traditions define you “ – project
approved and implement in May 2013
in Ocna ugatag, Maramure district.
“Paradise of Biodiversity” – project
financed by the European Commission
within the Youth in Action program
Action 3.1.a Cooperation with the
neighboring Partner Countries of the
European Union – Training and
Networking.
I’ve actively participated in the
implementation and development of
projects addressed to young people
“Eruption – Anticorruption “- project
financed by the American Embassy that
had as main objective the civically and
ethical education; I’ve been in charge
of coordinating volunteers during 6
month for the Juridical Center of
resource; I’ve been a trainer for
projects deployed in partnership with
“Casa Corpului Didactic “–“ The training
center “from Bucharest. Starting with
2013 I’m part of A4ACTION where I’ve
been actively involved in the
implementation of the local projects:
Alternatives (project financed by the
European Commission within the Youth
in Action program and the project
“Let’s be creative “ – project financed
by the Ilfov directive for Sport and
Youth . “Inner Wisdom” project
financed by the Bucharest City
Directive for Sport and Youth;
A4ACTION Youth Center - project
financed by own funds.
MANAGEMENT
Iuliana Adriana Pavel
President of A4ACTION
with a lot of experience in
coordinating local and
multinational projects.
Mihaela Oancea
Psychologist
Psychologist, youth worker and
accredited trainer CNFPA, involved
in volunteer activities since 2012.
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OUR
TARGET
GROUP
adolescents
between 14-19 yo
young people
between 19-35 yo
young parents teachers
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LET’S BE CREATIVE
Let’s be creative - a local
project dedicated to youngsters,
financed as a result of the local
content initiated by the Ilfov
departmental the Direction for
Sport and Youth. This project
was implemented in Bran,
Bra ov District in the following
period :1st of August 2013 -
15th of November 2013. The
aim of the project was to
develop within the target group
(25 youngsters with age
between 15 and 20 years old
from Snagov, Ilfov District)
abilities to create different
leisure time programs.
ALTERNATIVES
Local project dedicated to
youngsters, financed by the
European Union through Youth
in Action program, Youth
initiatives (Action 1.2). This
project was implemented in
Snagov, Ilfov District in the
following period: 15th of
August- 31st of December
2013. The aim of the project
was to create leisure programs
for 50 youngsters with age
between 15th and 30th years
old from Snagov, Ilfov
department. We aimed this
project to be created by
youngsters, with youngsters
and for youngsters.
INNER WISDOM
Inner Wisdom – project
financed by the Bucharest City
Directive for Sport and Youth.
This project was implemented in
Eforie Sud, Constan a District in
the following period: 15th of
July- 30st of September
2014.The aim of the project
was to create to achieve a mini
camp in which 10 overweight
young people with aged 14-35
years old to participate in art
therapy programs, programs
aimed at their psychosocial
rehabilitation.
A4ACTION
YOUTH CENTER
The most requiring project that
we coordinate, financed by own
funds. This Youth Center it
opened its doors for the
children and youth people from
Snagov, in the month of May
2015. By setting up this
A4ACTION Youth Centre, we
want to raise awareness,
educating the youth about the
benefits of active participation
in community life; promoting
volunteering and non-formal
education among youth people;
developing volunteer programs;
development personal
programs; advisory and
consultancy programs in areas
like legal (legislation in areas of
interest to young people about
volunteering), personal
branding, project management;
development of training
programs for teachers;
developing programs for
parents.
A4ACTION GROW
PROGRAM
Project financed by the EEA
Grants 2009-2014, under the
NGO Fund in Romania. This
project was designed to ensure
the building capacity of
A4ACTION members to expand
the scope of intervention in
volunteering. The project will be
implemented in the period 15th
of May 2015 - 15th February
2016, in partnership with
Volunteer Center Cluj Napoca
and will be run for a nine
months period. Project activities
will be developed mainly in
Snagov, Ilfov County. This
project is an opportunity both
for A4Action, which will be
advised in the management of
volunteers in an organization
with extensive experience in
this field, as well as for young
rural people as an opportunity
to get involved in volunteering.
From the start point
until now we have
coordinated these
national projects:
NATIONAL
PROJECTS
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PARADISE OF BIODIVERSITY
Multinational project financed by the European
Union through Youth in Action program,
Cooperation with the neighbourhood of the
European Union (Action 3.1a). This project was
implemented in Murighiol the Danube Delta in
the period 15th – 22nd of September 2013.
The project involved 34 youngsters that are
part of youth organizations from 4 countries
(Russia, Spain, Romania , Moldavia ). The aim of
Paradise of Biodiversity project was to increase
de degree of knowledge for youth within the
countries that participated to the project (
Russia, Spain, Romania , Moldavia ) in regards
to the importance of preserving the biodiversity
of the natural protected areas considered for
this project.
This project was implemented with the help of
the following non-governmental associations:
Ÿ AEGEE, Russia www.aegee-moskva.ru
Ÿ IMAGINA, Area de Juventud, Spania
www.imaginalcobendas.org
Ÿ ADVIT Europe without limits, Moldova:
www.voluntariat.md
Ÿ The Association for Initiatives and
Continuous Development A4Action project
coordinator www.a4action.ro
Ÿ Asociatia Oxigen – project coordinator
www.asociatiaoxigen.ro
TRADITIONS DEFINE YOU
Multinational project financed by the European
Union through Youth in Action program, Action
1.1 Youth Exchange. The main objective of „
Traditions define you „ project was to discover
the cultural European beauties. During the
project, 35 youngsters had the opportunity to
discover the multicultural diversity of each
country that participated to the project. In
order to meet the objectives, both indoor and
outdoor activities were considered, which
included folkloric dresses, instruments and
music, dances, gastronomic meals, religious
holidays (Christmas, Easter etc.), folk festivals,
traditional ceremonies like baptizing, marriage,
funeral, superstitions, legend and proverbs.
This project was implemented by the following
non-governmental activities:
Ÿ “System and G” , Greece www.liveyourcity.org
Ÿ Aktif Genclik Dernegi, Turkey: Aktif-Gençlik-
Derne i-Active-Youth-Association-AYA
Ÿ Youth organization within Sport club “Izida-
Svilengrad”, Bulgaria www.izidayunakbg.com
Ÿ STUDIUM, Lithuania www.zpl.lt
Ÿ Alba, Spain www.aalba.cat
Ÿ The Association of the Romanian Toursim
Guides : project coordinator
www.ghiziiromaniei.ro
Ÿ The Association for the initiatives and
continuous development A4ACTION, project
coordinator – www.a4action.ro
From the start point
until now we have
coordinated these
international
projects
INTERNA-
TIONAL
PROJECTS
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PARTNERSHIP~NGO
Association for Initiatives and Continuous Development
Ÿ Youth Exchanges
Ÿ European Voluntary Service
Ÿ Training and Networking
Ÿ Transnational Youth Initiatives
Ÿ Strategic Partnerships
Ÿ Capacity Building
Ÿ Meetings between young people
and decision-makers
Ÿ Coach for Youth Initiative
Ÿ Democracy/Active citizenship
Ÿ Environment
Ÿ European citizenship
Ÿ EVS volunteer wanted
Ÿ Integration
Ÿ Intercultural dialogue
Ÿ Non-formal learning
Ÿ Sustainable development
Ÿ Youth policy
We are looking for NGO located in
Europe or neighbourhood of the
European Union, to become
partners in our/your next project.
We are interested to develop the
following types of projects:
Our future partners will be a NGO
actively involved in developed the
social sector in their country by
implemented projects with the
following themes:
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PARTNERSHIP~VOLUNTEERS
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The future volunteer will also need
to be interested in the following
areas:
Ÿ To promote the values of the
European Union in the
community where the activity
will be held;
Ÿ To be willing to work with other
young people with the age
between 14 and 30 years old;
Ÿ To promote the non-formal
education with the youngsters
from the respective community;
Ÿ To be willing to work with young
people with fewer opportunities.
Also the future volunteer needs to
be capable to integrate him/herself
in a community from the
countryside (Snagov village) - 30
km from the capital Bucharest city-
community where the leisure
activities are less numerous than in
other big cities from Romania.
The recruitment of the volunteers
will be done by the partner’s
organizations. In the partnership
agreement there will be clearly
mentioned our requirement in
regards to the future volunteers.
However, recruitment process of
the volunteers will be done by our
the partners .
The future volunteer will be a young person with
the age between 18 and 30 years also, actively
involved in an NGO that comes from a country that
participate into an UVS program; this young person
will be ambitious, results orientated and willing to
develop him/(her)self.
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Association for Initiatives and Continuous Development
Involvement in projects at European level
ensure the building capacity of A4ACTION
members to develop through learning
northern part of the Ilfov District. Even so
its considerate one of the richest area
near Bucharest, Snagov inhabitants (those
that were born and raised in this
community), are having a modest way of
living. The richness of this area is given by
people with important financial capital,
mostly from the political environment that
moved here and bought properties.OUR
FUTURE
PLANS
Our future plans in order to
develop through learning northern
part of the Ilfov District are:
minimum 10 young
people/year involved
in UVS program
minimum 5 young people/year
from European Union and
neighbourhood of the
European Union involved in
USV program that will be
implemented in Snagov
minimum 25 young
people/year involved in
youth exchange programs.
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077170 Ghermanesti Street, No. 49
Snagov County, Ilfov, Romania
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