General Information

Oriel was founded in 2017 and its main office is in the province of Verona, Italy. Despite the fact the association is quite young, the founders and the key staff have several years of experience in the youth work field. The mission of the association is to promote the active participation of young people in their local communities and to give them the chance and the tools to exploit fully their potential and to provide them a support in discovering their path and to develop their skills, by using non-formal education and intercultural learning methods. To pursue these goals Oriel organizes cultural events, seminars, workshops and study sessions to promote mostly creativity, entrepreneurship, youth employment, volunteering, youth democratic participation but also about several different topics according to need and situations. During the events of Oriel, youth are encouraged to share experiences and ideas and the youth workers act in order to foster social integration, active youth participation and to transmit the necessary and requested information for the youth to develop their ideas and to fulfill their learning needs. Nowadays our association counts more than 100 members. Since his birth, Oriel association has tried to build network with other local like-minded organizations: -CPS ONG, an organization founded in 1974 with the mission to improve the world, particularly in the south of it, in african and south american vulnerable countries. -Progettomondo.mlal, an ONG created in 1966 in order to support sustainable development and global education. -The Eurodesks in the region of Veneto, a group of organizations with the mission to communicate and raise awareness about European opportunities. - Europiamo? – an informal Italian network of organisations involved with the Programme Erasmus +, that has as a goal to create young ambassadors for a more participative, sustainable and involved idea of Europe. - The youth departments of the municipalities of Padova, Schio, Valdagno, Brescia