Lithuania - Asociacija "Neribota ateitis"

Neribota ateitis (Unlimited Future ) is a non-governmental, non - profit organization, dealing with nonformal education activities among youth and adults. Purpose of the organization is to carry out exchange programs in Lithuania, participate in trainings and to solve problems that are relevant to today's society, based on non-formal education methods in which people from different cultures have the opportunity to share personal experiences, learn to work in teams, to create, to express their views, to reveal their expression ways, learn to believe in themselves, not to be afraid to make mistakes and fully develop on their own. Organizational values is constant improvement, teamwork, common purpose, to result – informative society, fostering immediate communication, tolerance, selfexpression and leadership. The organization's mission, based on values, is to develop well-rounded personalities, through various forms of expression and methods. Our vision – is to see sustainable world, to teach people to respect and understand each other, to be able to express themselves, find their place in this society and to realize their potential and creativity. This vision came because most of the people in our organization works in public relations and pays a lot of attention on personal development and the cultural and spiritual education. Also, most of our members and volunteers are the members of the non-formal education circles, where they are studying and gaining non-formal education methods which they are trying to analyse and adapt on organisation activities. Our main members has gained some experience of youth exchange / trainings management in Lithuania last year, when they had helped to manage youth exchange and also had the opportunity to manage icebreaking and team-building activities. We would really love to gain more experience and share it during our own future projects. To get this experience we would be glad to participate in this event. Organisation has created and implemented two youth exchange projects “Don’t stress out – workout!” and “Music and arts as a way to intercultural dialogue”. First project covered active lifestyle and stress management topics. During project participants had opportunity to try out various sports activities and stress management techniques as a way to manage stress and put all life bothers in order. During second project organisation was using music and art as a tool and core method while creating intercultural communication and network. Our main ideas and suggestions for youth projects are ice-breaking, team-building, cooperative search for answers and other team work activities. The most important thing is to mix people from different countries in each activity. It will improve their English language, communication with others and quick thinking skills. Potential themes for us are expressing and revealing yourself, self-education and self-improvement during non-formal education, equality, anti-discrimination events, being healthy mentally and physically. Our organization is a new organization so we have a lot of members and youth leaders that took some responsibilities as follows. Our main members: Vladislavas Krivoščenko – chairman of the association. Experienced youth leader and organiser. Indre Kupčinskaitė – project coordinator of the Association, marketing management student. Responsible for the coordination and cooperation with other countries. She has experience in advertising, marketing and public relations. Indrė is also interested in the arts and arts-related therapies which helps to relax and reveal talents. Marius Prieskenis - association's board member, marketing professional. Marius specializes in sphere of communication and human resources. Ignas Milinis - Association member, law student. He assists with documents and coordination and presents Association to new members. Ignas is interested in self-development and Erasmus+ opportunities. Tadas Vilkaitis - Association member, pharmacy student. He helps to organise events in Lithuania, is responsible for transportation and also presents Association to new members. Tadas is also interested in trainings based on self-development, and methods, which could be used during our events.