CRAFTING REALITY

Beyond is a NGO created in 2019, în Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, promoting youth educational initiatives in our city and our region, Transylvania. We deeply recognize the responsibility towards the development of the future, through education. In this regard, we see the importance of connecting youth with different backgrounds together, promoting dialogue between different groups of people and supporting the development of an independent, progressive and upgraded civil society.

Beyond is established in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The organization is made up of a number of experts with the goal to offer support, services and counseling in the area of non-formal education, self-knowledge, psychological education, civil society and democratic institutions development, civil values, for all citizens (especially for young people). We intend to organize events (round tables, debates, seminars and workshops) about activism, experiential education, promoting human rights, development of local, regional, European and international cooperation. Beyond Association especially promotes creativity, innovation, psychological experiential education, self-knowledge, health and well-being, social entrepreneurship and sustainable development of civil society. We intend to facilitate mobility projects in order to study and work abroad, with the aim of enhancing the professional and linguistic skills and promoting greater integration into the global job market.

Another aim of the organization is to facilitate communitarian European integration, and promote the knowledge of European culture among the young people, in particular, and of all the citizens, in general. We want to improve the quality of life of people in our town and the region of Transylvania, as well to foster social inclusion and civic activism. Our goals are also to develop cultural, democratic, social and ecological conscience among youth, to encourage cooperation of young people with different interests and activities, and to increase influence of young people on the local community. We do our best to educate young people in order to give them opportunity to spread everything they have learned and to encourage them to become actively involved in the life of their community. Therefore the core values of our organization are INCLUSION, EMPOWERMENT, and EDUCATION.

We support young people to become creative, active and get further into voluntary work and widen their chances for their future. Our organization provides an informal setting, coaching and mentoring activities where youngsters can develop new abilities and competences, through our associations’ Empowerment hub project. We take responsibility to provide active involvement of youth participants in preparation of the project, its implementation and dissemination of results. We want to develop youngsters' social skills and their interest in civic activism, in their possibility to contribute to their own future as to the future of Europe and the world.