Training Partners: U-GO and the Richter Foundation

Training partners in the project will be U-GO, a new youth arts and youth work NGO based in Edinburgh in the United Kingdom; and the Richter Foundation, a Dutch not for profit organization based in Den Helder, which has been working in the field of international cooperation for 12 years.

U-GO’s vision is that all young people in Europe have access to quality youth work which uses the arts as a tool for informal learning. U-GO was established in 2009 to support the development of quality arts-based youth work throughout Europe, and has been invited to deliver six training courses in its first year.

The Richter Foundation is run by a team of professionals in the field of arts and cultural movement and each year organizes around 15 cultural events throughout Europe. Richter has co-operated with all the EU member states and for the last five years has been active in the Caucasus region, Belarus and Russia. At the moment Richter has 25 volunteers in the Netherlands, 60 volunteers working and living in Europe, and 50 active partner organizations in Europe. Richter is also an active partner in the Youth in Action programs European Volunteer Service.

The trainer from Richter will be Peter Keijzer, and he will work in this project alongside Michael Richardson, the Director of U-GO. Both the trainers have over twenty years of experience as youth workers and youth arts workers, and have been working as trainers for over ten years.