Profile
FAR is a free and independent association and wants to contribute to:
- encourage people from different generations to get involved in political and social processes
- achieve and support independent opinion making, rethinking and moral courage
- discuss in public important topics such as the European integration of the country or the increasing emigration of young Bulgarians
FAR is a local structure for the broad political education of youths and adults in the Burgas region. It offers national and international education and conveys:
- current topics and a new learning culture
- a contribution towards adequate democratic concepts for South Eastern Europe
- acquirement and consolidation of key competences for young people as an important precondition for their active participation in social life
- awareness concerning chances for the development of young Bulgarians in their own country
Political Education in the Burgas region
The socio-cultural changes in the context of the transformation processes in the Balkan countries and their consequences have not been reflected very much. For this reason there is a high need for meetings, seminars and other educational offers, which contribute actively and sustainably to the sphere of democratic education. After a long vacuum, people in these countries will become aware again of the pedagogical importance and chances of non-formal youth and adult education.
In this context FAR understands itself as a place for non-formal, integral, political and social learning and offers space and time for pedagogical arrangements outside school and public institutions. Through contemporary education programmes FAR is able to provide continuing education for wide circles of society.
FAR aims at establishing its educational offers for youths and adults according to its experiences and applying new methods. Therefore the activities should be geared towards the current local situation and communicate socio-political contents in seminars in an applied way.
