Participants

Ville de Hendaye (Hendaye, France)

The town of Hendaye is a local authority of 17 200 inhabitants overseeing the improvement of its territory and the quality of life of its inhabitants. Services and activities are linked to legal obligations, but also to the organisation and coordination of policies improving the quality of life of its inhabitants in all kind of aspects: educational, sporting, social and cultural.

Because of its proximity to the Spanish Basque country, the town of Hendaye has for many years undertaken cross-border activities.Hendaye is a port and a tourist town, but also a town welcoming international transit and of socio-medical co-operation. In fact the health sector is the largest employer in the town, with two large reception buildings and centres for disabled people. A new elderly person’s day centre is envisaged, as well as a new rest and convalescent home. Hendaye has also pioneered a method of disabled access to the beach.


The Youth Information Office (BJI) of Hendaye assures a welcome to all; together with accessible information provided free of charge. It is linked to the counselling, training and rehabilitation organisations and associations, families and businesses.The mission of BIJ is essentially to deliver information and documentation on education, training, professions, employment, housing, rights, health, leisure activities, language exchange, European and international mobility.

Ayuntamiento de Arguedas (Arguedas, Spain)
It is a local entity of the village of Arguedas, in the South of Navarre, Spain. Arguedas and Hendaye signed the twinning on March 29th 2017; since then both villages have been participating and exchanging many cultural activities, sports, cinema, as well as visits between schoolchildren from both villages. To highlight, painting exhibitions of young artists from the village of Arguedas in the Mendi Zolan Cultural of Hendaye or the screening of the Festival Film Hendaye in the cultural space The Chapel in Arguedas, creation of the school garden, recovery of green space.

Arguedas is a small village but very rich in many aspects, the goal of its town-hall is to keep the village and particularly the young people alive in all kind of knowledge such as music, different cultures and ways of living, food, art, history. Its hope is to grow a generation of young people with strong values on generosity, solidarity and environmental friendly.

Associação Juvenil de Deão (Viana do Castelo, Portugal)

The AJD was formally founded on 19 April 1997 and aims to create and develop social, cultural, sports and artistic activities for the youth. We focus on the area of leisure time, volunteering, cooperation and training, promoting and improving their access to information, their social integration, civic participation and equality between men and women.The association has been working mainly with children and young people from the rural areas of Viana do Castelo.

Our Community School is a prime location of interaction between the association and the community. There are many activities undertaken at the Community School, of which we would like to highlight the following:

• Ludoteca: a recreational and cultural space dedicated to reading and writing, visual and body expression. It promotes playing as a way of learning and encourages contact with other cultures and traditions, promoting interculturality.
• Oficinas: a set of intergenerational dynamics (crafts workshop, theatre workshop, cavaquinhos and guitar workshop) in order to provide the youth and the community with the know-how and tools to help them develop new skills that contribute to their personal and social development.
• Secção de desporto: annual sporting activities (gymnastics sessions, hiking, mountain biking,...)
• Animação: we promote activities (information sessions, trainings, debates, International Youth Day,...) aimed at dynamising the region and its population. We seek to develop a proactive attitude and greater citizenship and enabling them to get to know spaces that would otherwise be impossible for them to explore.
• Newsletter “O CAROÇA”: created in 1998, it honours the best-known craft of our region: the caroças. It is a vehicle to incentivize creativity and enable written and pictorial expression.