SEIKLEJATE VENNASKOND – Estonia (http://www.seiklejad.org)
Seiklejate Vennaskond is youth and civil society organization, which connects active adventurous people together. We work mainly with young people, but also with youth workers, trainers and teachers and organizations active in non-formal education field and life long learning. Our members have participated and organized different youth exchanges, seminars and training courses concerning equality, media impact, innovation, fight against racism & xenophobia, human rights, mobility and migration, HIV prevention, environment protection and other issues. Our volunteers gather every month to take up new ideas and think how to put them into practice. We sincerely believe that young people today can make a difference and we all work for this purpose. First activities of the organization date back to the year 2003 when group of active young people got together to organize a youth exchange. After that there have been many local regional activities concerning integration, adventure tourism and different interest specific activities. Since 2010 SeiklejateVennaskond has become from non-formal youth group to a registered non-profit organization. SeiklejateVennaskond has been active in the framework of Youth in Action (before 2007 in “Youth”): 2004 youth exchange “Environment and Nature.SeiklejateVennaskond has been
working in the field of non-formal education for more than 10 years, in the framework of Youth, Youth in Action programme and Erasmus+, but also with life-long learning programmes (such as Lenardo).
SeiklejateVennaskond has experience in cooperation with programme countries, neighboring regions and partner countries (we have experience in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America).
SeiklejateVennnaskond works both with young people and youth workers. We have members all over Estonia, and we especially focus on small towns and rural areas. Many of our members are youth with fewer opportunities, so we have long term experience involving youth from less privileged backgrounds in our activities in Estonia and abroad.
Professional experts in our organization have background in various fields and all of them are working in the field of non-formal education. We make a lot of international cooperation, so we have good background experience in intercultural learning topics and everything which is connected to inclusion and especially including youth with fewer opportunities in our activities.