The Citizenship Academy’s main goal is to boost active citizenship and the construction of development roots with principles of social, economic and environmental sustainability. Our ambition is to empower people and organizations in the exercise of deepening democracy. Educational, communicative and artistic activities are our areas of intervention. Non-formal education and participative and active research are our methodologies.

blog.academiacidada.org

Slovak Human Rights League is a non-profit and non-governmental organization established in 2005 by lawyers and advocates involved in the legal counselling provided to refugees, asylum seekers and foreigners from non-EU countries in Slovakia. Our aspiration is to support building of transparent and responsible immigration, asylum and integration policies respecting human rights and dignity. Our initiatives aim to support self-empowerment of foreigners and refugees.

www.hrl.sk

Le Tran calls Oakland, California, and Ho Chi Minh City his two homes. His work largely focuses on racial justice and solidarity among youth and refugee groups, which has taken him France, southeast Asia, and Canada. Currently Le is based in Madrid, where he works in education and social justice.

Humanity in Action is an international educational organisation. Headquartered in New York, it comprises of national affiliates across six European countries. Humanity in Action educates, connects and inspires a global network of students, young professionals, and established leaders committed to fostering minority and human rights, both in their own communities and around the world.

Jaakko Blomberg is a social activist, co-creator, facilitator, cultural producer and researcher from Helsinki, Finland. He is co-founder and chairman of Yhteismaa (Common Ground) NGO. Yhteismaa is a non-profit organization specialized in new participatory city culture, co-creation, social movements and placemaking. All the projects of Yhteismaa aim for a more fun, free, sustainable, responsible and social urban life. These include an international flea market day, setting up a table for a thousand people to eat in the middle of a street, art exhibitions and theatre in homes, international conferences for social innovators and many others.

www.yhteismaa.fi/en/

Felipe lives in Sevilla (Spain) and is member of ZEMOS98, an cultural and political initiative which works and researches about free culture, social innovation, new media and informal education. ZEMOS98 has recently coordinated a european project within the context of the Doc Next Network and with the title: “Radical Democracy: Reclaiming the Commons” to foster through media some social struggles related to the Commons from the UK, Turkey, Poland and Spain. Felipe is also a video-activist with more than 50 remixes and video-mashups about the political context in Spain. Felipe is also a Star Wars fan and a proam tennis player.ZEMOS98 is an initiative which works and investigates on contemporary narratives, free culture and social innovation.

ZEMO98 believes in:

• culture as an element for social transformation and not just as entertainment.
• education as something which can happen anytime and anywhere.
• mutual support networks and the social economy.
• experimentation (on a formal level and also on a content-level).
• remix as a tool to deconstruct the dominant messages.
• mediation as a pedagogical tool.
• media and digital literacy.

www.zemos98.org