Lgl name: ASOCIACION DESES 3
Country : Spain
Region : Castilla y León
City : MEDINA DEL CAMPO
Website:www.asociaciondeses3.com

We are an organisation that works with young and adult people, offering them opportunities of comprehensive training programs, while giving priority to those who are unemployed or have a cultural, social or economic disadvantage. We aim at social inclusion and thus provide the space and projects that will allow people to develop their social skills.
We work on different topics depending on our respective goals:
-Improve the employability of people: entrepreneurship, career guidance, digital footprint, EUROPASS, European mobility
-Inform, sensitize, raise awareness and manage activities related to the environment. These aim at environmental
protection, educating the public, promoting useful information and ensuring an enjoyable time for their participants.
-Carry out activities such as courses, seminars and training days regarding leisure time and more.
-Contribute to the personal development of individuals and help them to achieve their full potential – physically, intellectually and socially – as citizens. Attention is given to those who are most in need of assistance. These could be people unprivileged socially, culturally, economically, physically, mentally, ethnically etc.
-Develop Actions and Programs for Social Intervention and Integration.
-Develop all kinds of activities in Free Time and Non-Formal Education.
-Promote activities, programs, projects relating to societal integration and the incorporation of immigrants into our society.
-Develop proposals and actions on gender equality, providing support to women, and promoting their inclusion and equal participation in society.
DESES -3 has 2 teachers, 1 researcher (PhD), 15 leisure-time monitors, 3 leisure-time coordinators, 2 level monitors, 2 trainers and one volunteer coordinator, all of whom work towards developing non-formal education activities. Our team has extensive experience in the creation, organisation and implementation of educational and free time activities. These include meetings between different associations (each hosting about 5000-6000 participants), participation forums, debates and multiple other communication tool-promoting activities. All of these serve to promote non-formal education and a learning system capable of transforming the reality that surrounds us.
* We are a sending organisation which fulfils its projects’ potential and assigns motivated and active participants (including
knowledgeable group leaders). Our adult educators have attended a training course on European citizenship organized by SALTO and can encourage Spanish citizens to also explore this concept. We can put together a highly motivated group of participants which will contribute to the fullest towards the success of each project.
* We enable participants to implement new skills in their work and extracurricular activities (we support them in organizing their events, use their newly acquired knowledge after a project, etc.)
* We work together with fellow participant organisations for the promotion and utilisation of a project’s results
* DESES-3 is an NGO and commits to taking part in all project processes.
Since recent years we have worked with the city council to carry out local development programs, aimed at people of different ages and contexts. Our commitment to society is increasing as well as our variety of activity offers for adults, young adults and the elderly to benefit.
Our organisation currently consists of 50-70 members and is continuously increasing in size. Our target group are people in the age range of 14-35 years old. Putting their ideas into action, these are people motivated to participate in different projects and be part of organising them. Our members also include leaders, who are adult educators. They put their ideas into action within the range of a given project; coordinate the work of the young participants and help to coordinate the project.