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Asociación Mundus

Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain • 20 Employees
Civic & Social Organization

Asociación Mundus is a non-profit organization established in 2013 in Spain. Now it has offices in Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona), Girona and Zaragoza. Mundus aim is to promote intercultural learning, volunteering and non-formal education. The mission of the organisation is to prepare young people to successfully meet the challenges of the nowadays society by empowering them through international learning experiences.The main activities of Mundus consist in managing international training and mobility projects such as internships, volunteering, youth exchanges and training courses, especially within the frame of Erasmus+ programme.In the field of education, our expertise lies on the international mobility VET projects management. Every year we host an average of 1,000 VET students from all professional families who carry out their internships. Mundus is working with a network of companies in Aragon and Catalonia, which are committed to support practical learning of young Europeans. The network includes companies from all professional fields thus making this opportunity available to as many students as possible. At the same time we send around 500 students to carry out their internships in countries of the European Union.Besides, Mundus has acquired a wide experience in managing strategic projects within the fields of education and interculturality. We work in the framework of programmes such as Erasmus+ KA2, Europe for Citizens or INTERREG POCTEFA, among others. We coordinate one of the only two pilot projects for setting up mobility schemes for VET providers between Europe and Africa.