Centre “Na Sumskom” carries out wide international activity, which gives an opportunity to establish business relations with different child organizations around the World,to engage in dialogue in the European context and to take part in international campaigns, urgent projects, and multicultural child events

The Chief coordinator of the International and Regional Relations Department is Tamara Gorlova (gorlova@nasumskom.ru).

On the 31 of October 2001 Centre “Na Sumskom” became a member of European Association of Institutions of Non-Formal Education for Children and Young People (EAICY).

EAICY is a European association of organisations which are active in the field of leisure of children and young people. EAICY was established in Prague (where the head office is still situated) in 1991. Nowadays EAICY - because of its multi-stage organisation where national associations are represented in the European association - represents more than 25,000 institutions from over 25 countries. This is a European platform for managers, pedagogues and children, which also proves to be interesting for politicians and policy makers.

In regard with its aims, tasks and missions, as well as with the goal of supporting and developing international collaboration on the issues of non-formal education, the activities of the Centre “Na Sumskom” have been as follows:

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS (COORDINATED BY EAICY):

• Project «Young Ambassadors from Tilburg, Netherlands» – the winner in the project contest at EAICY General Assembly in 2005 International meeting within the framework of the project “Young Ambassadors from Tilburg, Netherlands”. Holding press-conference. Meeting with the representatives of Student Government of Moscow (October, 2007)

• Project «Development of competences among youth for voluntary and social work». Participating in international seminar in Frohburg, Germany (October, 2006)

• Participating of parent community of the Centre “Na Sumskom” in the round table and meeting with the administration of Minsk State Palace of Children and Youth (Minsk, 2006), Kiev Palace of Children and Youth (Kiev, 2007) and Rivno City Palace of Children and Youth (Rivno, 2007), St. Petersburg City Palace of Youth Creativity (St. Petersburg, 2008)

• Participating in the meeting of EAICY Youth Council in Krakow (November, 2006)

• Participating in the International pedagogical session “East – West: common experiences” in Krakow (May, 2007)

• Participating in the International pedagogical session “Youth - Leisure - International cooperation - Non-formal education” in Krakow (May, 2008)

• International educational sitting “The youth-leisure time-international cooperation” (April, Krakow, 2009.) • International youth meeting “Open world of cultural variety of XXI”( May, Kiev, 2009)

• International youth meeting “From culture to multiculturalism, similarity and distinction in Europe”. (July, Krakow, 2009)

• International seminar “Young people as a part of democracy?” (October 2010, Bratislava Slovakia.)

In October 2010, in the period from 14th to 17th, in Bratislava , an international seminar "Youth as a part of democracy" was held. Eight participants from different countries of Europe were welcomed by Martin and Michael, - energetic and creative instructors of the Slovak Institute of Youth - IUVENTA. All three days were devoted to painstaking and time-consuming work on several topics: • “The active participation of young people” – as the types and degree of the involvement, principles, difficulties and ways to overcome them. • “The driving force of participation” – discussions, their forms, the European Youth Parliament. • “Where to get support?” - Financial and non-financial support for youth programs. Each participant was awarded with the precious cargo of new knowledge and capabilities, and could bring to light their creativity, share their experiences working with young people and feel the spirit of the team. Galina Parshutina, Pedagogue-organizer, Centre “Na Sumskom”, Moscow

ORGANIZATION AND HOLDING INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS IN MOSCOW:

• Meeting of the EAICY Youth Council. Participants: representatives of 12 EAICY member countries (April, 2006).

• International youth meeting “The Energy of Creativity”. Participants: more than 100 young people from 5 EAICY member countries (April, 2006)

• International working meeting of the EAICY delegation (President of EAICY Rene Clarijs, member of Presidium Thijs Malmberg) with the representatives of Ministry of Education and Science and the Department for Youth Policy on the issue of organising and holding EAICY International conference in Moscow in 2010 (May, 2007)

• Reception of delegations of North and South Korea, China and the delegations of the CIS and EU countries (Kyrgyzstan, Estonia, Latvia, Germany, Poland) (2004 – 2005)

• Reception of youth delegation from Riga. Meeting with the youth club “Sovremennik” (Moscow) (December, 2007)

• International meeting “Days of Minsk in South administrative district-the friendship train” ( October, Moscow, 2008 )

• Reception of youth delegation from Kazakhstan, Astana (Moscow, May,2009)

• Reception of the Presidium and representatives of EAICY from 16 European Countries and 12 Russian regions (Moscow, March, 2010.)

• Reception of youth delegation from Lithuanian Youth Centre (Moscow, May, 2011)

• International youth seminar “The world we dream in: youth values and changing reality” (Moscow, June, 2011)

• International meeting of pedagogues from Lithuanian Youth centre (Vilnius) and Centre “Na Sumskom”