Partner Identification Form

Thank you for expressing interest to add us – Make Room – as one of your project partners! We take each one of our partnerships seriously and we hope this potential partnership will bring us both to a new level of expertise!

We are a network of organizations across the globe, we like to call ourselves “Ecosystem” – “Global Social Change Ecosystem”. If you wish to partner with our representations in Italy, Romania, Cyprus, India and Nigeria, please do let us know!

PIC

910717869

Organization ID (OID)

E10006505

Full legal name of the organization

Make Room Europe

Status

Private body

Type of the organization

NGO / Non-profit organization

Registered Address

Street

Number

City

Poscode

Country

 

Zemgales

40

Dobele

LV-3701

Latvia

E-mail

Website

Mobile

info@makeroomeu.com

www.makeroomeu.com

+371 27422525

Legal Representative

Gender

First name

Surname

Position in the organization

E-mail

Mobile

Address

 

Male

Miks

Celmins

Director

miks@makeroomeu.com

+371 27422525

Please do use the same as the organization!

Contact Person

Contact person varies from a project to a project! Please do add your specific contact person of the proposed project!

Please briefly present your organization!

Make Room was first established in 2016 as “Make Room India”, following the 13th European Union – India Summit where European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker, Council of Europe President Donald Tusk and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi reconfirmed their commitment to jointly strengthen the Strategic Partnership between European Union and India. 

Make Room India was launched as an independently organized Social Change Ecosystem creating and strengthening civil society’s cooperation to drive positive social change between European Union and India.

Since then, Make Room has grown to become a Global Social Change Ecosystem – a unique platform for impact-oriented intellectual, cultural and personal interactions between changemakers of Europe and the rest of the world.

Make Room fosters civil dialogue and creates impact-oriented partnerships between individuals and organizations of Europe and the rest of the world facilitating dialogue to create effective initiatives developing innovative, sustainable and easily-replicable solutions to problems found in both – Europe and elsewhere.

What are the activities and experience of your organization in the areas relevant for this project application?

Currently, Make Room is the one of the few and the core organization facilitating effective inclusion of newcomers in Latvia – foreign nationals (refugees, asylum seekers, people with alternative status and foreign students). The organization has built a vast network of youth workers and youth working in the field of integration and social inclusion of minorities. In addition to facilitating on-going large-scale interventions to foster inclusion, the organization also, managed day to day issues of foreign nationals: 1) accommodation hunting; 2) translation and legal guidance; 3) job hunting; 4) social and conflict resolutions; 5) communication with other NGOs and public authorities to solve urgent crisis. 
The organization often organizes discussions, forums and events to introduce the target group with newly passed bills and laws affecting their lives, as well as, to gather opinions to suggest certain changes to lawmakers. 
During the pandemic, Make Room, worked in close cooperation with public bodies to ensure crisis benefit grants to newcomers at financial difficulties as well as organized donations to run a food bank providing food packs to migrants in Latvia. 
Make Room regularly coordinates and partners with other relevant stakeholders in the field of integration and inclusion to develop socially relevant and impact oriented local and international mobility projects. 

Also, Make Room, annually conducts its flagship initiative “Changemakers’ Room” gathering 60 changemakers from across the globe to identify some of the most pressing issues of today and generate innovative and sustainable solutions that post the forum are transformed into impact-oriented projects and/or social businesses. 

Please give information on the key staff/ persons involved in this application and on the competences and previous experience that they will bring to the project.

Miks Celmins has worked in various capacities supported by the EU Commission in Europe, Africa, and Asia for the past 10 years. Together with leading European not-for-profits, Miks conceptualized and executed 30 international mobility projects for EU & African changemakers. In early 2014, Miks moved to India and closely worked with various social-change-oriented entrepreneurship institutes to gain insights into the current social change ecosystem in India. The support of the European based government officials, NGOs and educational institutions, his experience in international project development and implementation across EU, Africa and India and recent EU-India Strategic Partnership led Miks to co-found Make Room. At Make Room he undertakes international project management and is the Chair of the international Training Forum “Changemakers’ Room”.

He is an inspiring activist, 2016 Awardee of Women Economic Forum Iconic Leaders in Social Empowerment. 

Have you applied for/received a grant from any European Union program in the 12 months preceding this application?

Project number

2019-3-LV02-KA105-002855

Project name

“Room for Effective Integration”

Programme

Erasmus+

Year

2020

Role

Coordinator

2018-3-DE04-KA105-017410

“Sustainable Living”

Erasmus+

2019

Partner

2018-1-LV02-KA105-002002

“Room for Inclusive Partnerships”

Erasmus+

2018

Coordinator

2018-1-LV02-KA105-002081

“Room for Cultural Heritage”

Erasmus+

2018

Coordinator

2018-1-LV02-KA347-002023

“Youth Integration Dialogue”

Erasmus+

2018

Coordinator

2018-2-IT03-KA347-014004

“Generation Europe: young policy makers”

Erasmus+

2018

Partner

2018-1-IT03-KA105-013240

“European Year of Cultural Heritage”

Erasmus+

2018

Partner

2018-2-CY02-KA105-001273

“Youth for Cultural Heritage”

Erasmus+

2018

Partner

2018-1-LT02-KA105-005798

“Community: Seniors Involved”

Erasmus+

2018

Partner

2017-3-CY02-KA105-001132

“Arts for Inclusion”

Erasmus+

2018

Partner