SIYB is a volunteer based structure, based on voluntary financial investments of its founders.
Stichting International Youth Bridges is a non-political, non-religious, non-governmental organisation that welcomes youth peace initiatives and young peace builders regardless of gender, ethnicity, social class, religion, or any other distinction.
SIYB was built on the potential of youth work and non-formal learning. SIYB supports the development of youth-policies and youth-work, and promotes international co-operation, sustainable contacts, intercultural understanding, tolerance, social inclusion by developing Human Rights, Gender Equality and by tackling all issues that can effect youth, like sport.
SIYB offers trainings to both non-governmental and governmental, as well as profit guided structures. SIYB creates an safe, neutral space for people from various backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to meet each other, to develop ideas, to share information, share ideas and social time, and to increase the visibility, effectiveness and abilities of those ideas.
What we are doing ?
- Organize charity actions
- Participate and arrange youth exchanges, training courses, seminars and contact meetings with other countries;
We organise trainings on
- Human Rights Education
- Conflict management/peace education
- Organizational management
- Project management
- Intercultural learning
- Citizenship and democracy
- Digital, ICT tools, Media, photography and video
- Unemployment
- Entreperneurship
- Creativity
- Personal development
- Environment and healthy life style
Stichting International youth bridgets promotes formal , non formal and informal Education. Developes different educational Tools.
SIYB has close partnerships projects to non governmental, governmental and school sectors. SIYB promotes Edult and senour Education.
Legends and Fairy Tales in the Intergenerational Education
KA210-ADU - Small-scale partnerships in adult education
2022-1-NL01-KA210-ADU-000080750
This Erasmus+ project has focus on legends and fairy tales as a base for storytelling which educators will learn and implement with learners in different age. Project aims to develop skills and competences of adult educators who will transfer them to the final beneficiaries – adult learners. This project will support adult educators with an innovative mentoring methodology for fostering the creativity of adult learners.
The project objectives are:
*to improve competences of adult educators,
*to share good practices among project partners,
*to collect methods and materials for E-Book,
*to equip adult learners with new competences,
*to enrich the network of adult education providers,
*to support the social and educational value of the cultural heritage.
Visit our project page/ padlet and follow the activities
https://padlet.com/siyb_eu/legends-and-fairy-tales-in-the-intergenerational-education-yo2xf4zm04tinzlm
Article : https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/content/legends-and-fairy-tales-intergenerational-education
Article in Turkish newspapers about our meeting 2-8 October, 2023 https://antalyakorfez.com/haber/16864941/uluslararasi-proje-antalyada-turk-el-sanatlarini-inceledi?fbclid=IwAR1Lq9AW97pANmbNcCx02HEQmVM5zyEfRUBrCmCwOBGukVnVzVTpwu1djvI
Enjoy to read and download the ebook
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1inCB38vfzthlWBnbfoTlGPURJzPErn3k/view?usp=sharing
CURRENT PROJECTS
Enjoy to Watch Dutch legends and Fairy Tales in English and in Dutch
Workshops -Legends and fairy tales, Myth as an an educational tools
Disseminations and local activities in order to use Legends, Myth and Fairy tales as an educational tools
The process of learning is not the same for children, adults, and seniors but creative and innovative tools can make it work.
"Non Formal in Formal Education-Teaching Subjects Through Culture and ICT".
2020-1-NL01-KA201-064667
"Read the city: cultural integration of adult learners with special needs"
2020-1-NL01-KA227-ADU-082979
Toolkits-Educational tools for youth workers, teachers, educators, trainers, adul educators, mantors...
TOOLKIT-"Learn ( Re) think, Express"
KA2 - Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices
KA201 - Strategic Partnerships for school education
The toolkit is a result of the prokject " Creating an Innovative Platform of Communication and Teaching in a Digital Society Erasmus+ Project No 2018-1-BG01-KA201-047998 . The project is granted by Bulgarian NA
This toolkit is about non-formal learning methods which can be used by teachers as a guidebook.
The role of the Stichting international Youth Bridges, The Netherlands was to bring the new methods of non-formal education: ice-breakers, getting to know each other, group building activities in formal educational system in order to promote creativities and motivations in school system.
TOOLKIT-“Inspire, Educate, and Incubate Tomorrow’s Leading Entrepreneurs”
KA2 – Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices -Capacity Building in the field of Youth.
A tool of non-formal learning methods which can be used by youth workers, trainers, facilitators as a guide book. It will stimulate young people’s spirit of creativity and entrepreneurship, employability, in particular through youth initiatives. It will encourage them for creation of their own social or business projects; designing and implementation of small entrepreneur ideas, learn fund raising, and micro –credits, find out about Erasmus+. It includes theory -practical exercises, resources of the topic- advises-how to organize new approaches/ methodologies.
Toolkit -"Peace Will Come"
The Toolkit is the result of the project – “Peace Will Come” (Granted by German National Agency, Erasmus+ KA105 - Youth mobility), collective effort involving people from different cultural, professional and organizational backgrounds. Youth workers, trainers, youth leaders and volunteers in NGOs have worked together in order to create this publication which would address to peace education.
Current projects
Entrepreneurship skills as path to efficient inclusion in the society
2021-1-PL01-KA220-YOU-000028596
New Era , New Experiences
2021-1-NL02-KA153-YOU-000007443
The youth workers discovered creative digital tools which motivates and support young people active participation and inclusion. They explored value and development of the use of ICT, social and digital media as a tool in youth work;
The project included 2 mobility activities. During the first meeting participants improved youth workers digital competence and equipped them with the tools that improves their work with young people; the participants learnt how to ensure inclusion in online activities and Erasmus+/ European Solidarity Corps; also they have prepared one day workshop and developed in their home country after the training. On the second meeting, participants gathered to share their experiences from their home activities, worked on future cooperation, as well as developed youth workers further competencies in critical thinking and media literacy. It was organized the campaign-"Stop Fake News. The target group of the project were 20 youth workers, educators, volunteers ( per activity) who were motivated and needed to improve their digital skills as a tool for a change, who needed to learn how to use ICT and digital competencies so they could share them with their colleagues and young people when they returned home and to empower young people within an inclusion and/or diversity context, in their future ERASMUS + projects.
SHORT MOVIES CREATED DURING THE PROJECT
