YOUTHopia! volume 1 | Page 23

PAEM ALBA FOUNDATION offers support to people who are looking for a job, offers free assistance in guiding them towards active job offers and with the support of EU funds organizes free professional qualification courses in various fields for people living in rural and urban areas with lower opportunities in finding a job. Young people are also among the important beneficiaries’ of PAEM ALBA FOUNDATION’s actions. Over the last 18 years, the Foundation has implemented a considerable number of projects which involved the youth. Among them it is worth to mention the projects which encouraged youth exchanges at European level, and the projects aimed at supporting youth participation in civic and democratic activities, but also the support offered for young people intending to start up a business, etc. Moreover, PAEM ALBA FOUNDATION also has a Department of Volunteers comprising 20 active volunteers which are active in the activities of the Foundation. In our actions we count on partnerships and common projects with other NGOs, economic agents and associations from Alba Iulia and from Europe in different fields such as the development of the local economy through tourism (due to the great tourism potential), environmental protection, and social support. We have a very good collaboration with our local authorities and we recorded many successful projects with European funds and we intend to increase the area of collaborations for our further projects in order to raise the efficiency of our actions. The FOUNDATION has the largest variety system for international relationships in the NGO’s field in Romania. PAEM ALBA FOUNDATION developed important projects in partnership with organizations from