Participating organisations

The leading organization of the Rural Youth Cinema is the expertise team Art of Teaching at the University College Leuven Limburg (UCLL), in Belgium. UCLL is renowned for the high quality of its teaching, research & regional development.

More than 30 professional bachelor, and lifelong learning study programmes are offered in various discipline fields, with a focus on health care, social work, business & commerce, teacher education, science & technology. UC Leuven-Limburg’s strong commitment to research ensures state-of-art educating programmes for its 15,000 students.

Priority domains of the institution are: regional development, lifelong learning strategies, internationalisation & research. The research policy is focused on applied research.
Youth work receives special attention at UC Limburg. We pay special attention to this domain within the curricula of bachelor programmes, because a part of our graduates actually goes to work in this sector.

Curba de Cultură is all about reaching out to rural youth. It is an NGO committed to non-formal learning, to culture and to participation opportunities. Their focus is to improve education levels and community engagement for the young people living in rural environment in Romania, stating: “we take our work very seriously, yet we do it in a relaxed, witty and humorous spirit. A youthful spirit.”

Their main goal is to revitalise rural environment. In their view, change finds its most fertile ground in the ones most aptly equipped for change: YOUTH. Their energy and their desire to set a new way of doing things inspired them to provide an organisational framework capable of allowing youth to implement this change for themselves and for the community they live in. Their projects function as a pilot initiative addressing the issues of rural development, educational access and better opportunities for the ones who need change and a better life within the rural area.

Limerick Youth Service (LYS) is a leading provider of quality youth work projects and programmes for young people. This organization is a leading provider of youth work, education, training, employability & volunteering opportunities for young people and, with almost fifty years’ experience, is to the fore in providing quality youth led programmes.

LYS supports a number of diverse youth work projects including: youth cafés, Youth & Family Support, a Youth Mental Health Service, UBU youth projects, a Youth Information Centre, international youth work & volunteer led youth clubs across Limerick City & County.

LYS enhances the civic, educational, personal & social development of young people with programmes focusing on a broad range of topics from leaderships skills, animal welfare and web safety to creative arts, music and sport.

Their main goal is to revitalise rural environment. In their view, change finds its most fertile ground in the ones most aptly equipped for change: YOUTH. Their energy and their desire to set a new way of doing things inspired them to provide an organisational framework capable of allowing youth to implement this change for themselves and for the community they live in. Their projects function as a pilot initiative addressing the issues of rural development, educational access and better opportunities for the ones who need change and a better life within the rural area.

The European Confederation of Youth Clubs is a European network of youth work and youth club organisations that practise and promote Open Youth Work and Non-formal Education. The organisation was founded in 1976 and unites today 19 nationally represented organisations in 18 Council of Europe member states, therefore reaching 2 million young people every year.

ECYC has at its heart the support of youth clubs and other forms of neighbourhood youth work. The vision of ECYC is to empower young people through open youth work and non-formal learning in order to promote democratic and civil society and to encourage young people to be actively involved in their communities. Getting young people involved is one of the leading principles of open youth work as delivered by ECYC members. ECYC uses open youth work and non-formal education methods in providing young people with the skills and knowledge to make their own informed decisions. ECYC also aims to promote intercultural learning among the young people involved in its activities.

Within Theatre House Mals Vlees, amateur actors and professional artists meet in their own creation. The house produces artistic theater productions and social artistic projects. (People in addiction problems, people in poverty, people in detention, young people from Gaza…)

An educational component is usually attached to these projects with lesson folder and educational materials on the theme. In addition, the house organizes creative theater workshops for preschoolers, children, adolescents and adults. These three parts are in constant connection with each other.