Ilceva ulica 17
2250 Ptuj
Slovénie
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- International/Cultural relations
- Others
- Youth and education
Drustvo za ekoloske in prostocasne dejavnosti ZOJA in non governmental and non for profit organization from town Ptuj in Slovenia. We are structured according to the law for NGOs. Since 2009 we always have one or two regular employed persons. Other members work as volunteers. Our yearly budget started with several hudreds EUR at the beginning to max budget around 200.000 EUR. The main sources of fudings are local and international funds. Part of the budget represent commercial srvices. Our actions consist of educational, promotional and awarenss raising activities, where we use differenet kinds of non formal education methods. Among others we organize activities like study visits, seminars, conferences, youth exchanges, job shadowings ... At our work we cooperate with different partners and stakeholders. Partners are usually other NGOs, stakeholders come from different sectors like industry, R&D, educational insitutions, public utilities etc.
Association ZOJA is a non-profit and non-governmental organization, established in 2005. Our first projects and activities were focused on the environmental issues. Later we spread our activities to a wider aspect of the sustainable development. We believe that the sustainable solutions are those which contain aspects from all three main pillars of the sustainable development. Environmental, economic and social aspects. Therefor we also started to carry out project also on other topics than environment.
After more than ten years of regular work and appearance at the international level, we gained also experiences in field of development and capacity building of NGOs as well as in the area of supporting entrepreneurship and developing business ideas.
With our international work we accepted intercultural learning and intercultural dialog as something usual.
As mentioned, our main financial sources come from successful applications for grants. Among our grant donnors are institutions like Us Embassy, Norway and EEA grants, Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, Ministry of Agriculture, EACEA, Movit (Slovenian NA for Erasmus), EuropeAid, local Municipalities and others.
We work at local, national and innternational level. By now we worked or participated in projects and educational activities in fifteen countries of Euro-Mediterranean region. Among them in eight Mediterranean countries. till now we also managed international projects in four different continents. In Europe, Asia, Africa nad South America.
Implemented projects are mainly related to sustainable development topics, capacity building and entrepreneurship and employment of young people. With our Lebanese partner we also implemented two projects related to refugees thematic.
We can contribute to our national network in different ways. One of them is sharing our knowledge and experiences in sustainable development topics, especially in the environmental topics. For sure we can join to common activities organized by network memebers, we can share good practice cases among ALF network as well as we can shere ALF good practice cases among out established international network.
We believe that joining ALF Network can improve our work, we can expand our activities, find new partners and we can also contribteto ALF with our knowledge and experiences.