romania - THE ASSOCIATION OF ROMANIAN PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGISTS

We are a professional NGO which aims to support the development of psychology in different domains, to get involved in organizing professional programmes, training courses, cultural, scientific, educational and humanitarian activities and programmes. We are also interested in facilitating and having partnership with national and international institutions, associations and organizations; supporting intercultural exchanges and relationships and ensuring mobility for young persons and professionals We have experience in training courses based on non-formal learning. APPR organized in 2013 and 2014 a series of training courses about the social integration of children with special educational needs. The target group consisted of teachers, psychologists, care attendants and parents, interested in the integration of these children in the public schools system. The participants received useful professional information in an organized, interactive and non-formal setting, they gained experience and they had the opportunity to develop a constructive point of view about the topic. Because the project have a topic related with psychology, we think that our knowledge could be usefull. APPR is accredited in the Youth in Action Programme - European Voluntary Service (EVS) as the Coordinating, Sending, and Hosting organization. Code 2013-RO-26 We have become partners, through the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Turkey in the project "Young People and Volunteering" (TR-21-154-2012-R3), held under the Youth in Action Programme, Action 2 - European Voluntary Service, from June 20 to September 20, 2013. The project was coordinated by "T. C. Genclik ve Spor Bakanligi ". In the context of this project the APPR received 5 Turkish volunteers for a period of 1-3 months, volunteers who worked mainly in the non-formal education center from Bucharest. The skills and expertise of key staff/persons involved in this application will be:

- Relevant professional background (the members of the association and mostly psychologists, teachers, psychology students)

- Experience in non-formal learning and creative techniques - Commitment, interest in the topic

- Knowledge about leadership, organizational psychology, team building, team spirit, interpersonal and intercultural aspects, social and personal development

- Experience in writing project Leaders for this program will be our president and also contacting person of the program.

Lucian Andries – founder member of the NGO, trainer and psychologist. He has relevant professional background (the members of the association and mostly psychologists, teachers, psychology students). He has a strong knowledge about leadership, organizational psychology, team building, team spirit, interpersonal and intercultural aspects, social and personal development. Carmen – Lidia Nistor – board member of the NGO, translator, youth worker and trainer. She has experience in working with young people. She has also created and implemented several icebreakers and energisers published on Salto Youth and she is constantly publishing articles about methods or working with groups of young people. She has an experience of over 5 year in international projects as coordinator and active member.