Rato ADCC

Rato - ADCC

Nowadays, the association develops mainly:

In 2004, Rato - ADCC signed with Town Hall of Seixal a formal agreement and created in the Youth Center of Miratejo R@to - ADCC's Center, a space dedicated to the development of training and volunteering activities in the field of Information and Communication Technologies.

In the same year, Rato - ADCC became a hosting organization for European Voluntary Service and, since then, has developed a work of promotion of different projects related to youth volunteering, hosting youngsters in volunteering activities, practical learning periods or freetime occupation activities combined with the methodologies and resources provided by Informatics and Information and Communication Technologies.

Mission

Rato - Association for Cultural and Scientific Promotion is a Portuguese organisation without profit intentions whose mission is centred on the stating of the society of information and emerging information and communication technologies.

The modernisation of the methods and techniques of recollection, processing and dissemination of Information and Culture are a mean of democratisation of Knowledge. And it is this democratisation which will sustain the integral development of the societies of information towards the societies of knowledge.

Another strategic core element of Rato - ADCC is based on the global placement of contents associated with the Portuguese Speaking cultures, as an opposite to the prevalent Anglo-saxonic media industry. Rato - ADCC is willing to be a spreader of information in Portuguese.

This way, the primordial paths of activity are based on training, promotion and implementation of projects which are recurrent of the utilisation of the Computer and New Information Technologies' techniques and methodologies, being the creation of partnerships, with several agents and institutions of different regional levels, as the preferred vector of action.

The fundamental factor for the achievement of this vision is Youth, as an engine of development of activities in this domain, but it must promote multilateral mechanisms of generational interactivity. Rato - ADCC is an open project, dynamic to new wills and ideas, in a democratic enrichment perspective of the organisation.

The biggest asset of the Rato - ADCC are people and their ideas.

Training

The work developed by Rato - ADCC in the field of Informatics is based on non formal education methodologies with emphasis on the discovery process aiming the goal of Lifelong learning - the end of a workshop is always a beginning.

The global training activity is structured in the following project areas:

All training activities are supported by an e-learning platform of Rato - ADCC, where is available for all participants in the workshops of Rato - ADCC several resources and activities.

Another aspect is that the trainers and facilitators are in the great majority young volunteers of the association that are integrated and supported in the strategies, methodologies and techniques of the association. The learning process is mutual: some learn how to learn, others learn how to teach.

Volunteering

Rato - ADCC is a youth organization that aims to be the engine for youth volunteering in which young people can participate, organize or promote various activities that are related to themes as Information Technology and Youth Participation.

The association welcomes young people, who have the wish to develop their volunteer activity, do their curricular internship or keep their vacations and free time occupied, by giving some basic conditions. In addition to the national volunteering initiatives, Rato - ADCC is also a hosting and sending organization within the EVS (European Voluntary Service) programme.

The volunteering activities in Rato – ADCC are organized as follows:

Pool of volunteering trainers

This group aims at supporting various training activities undertaken by the association, in partnership with different official bodies and organizations. So if you think that it is possible to combat infoexclusion, and would like to collaborate with us in this project.

Curricular internships and trainees

The association hosts interns and trainees in the field of cultural animation (in the development of youth activities) and Information and Communication Technologies (web design and development of multimedia projects). Click here for more information.

European voluntary service

EVS is a programme for any young person aged 18 to 30 the opportunity to participate in projects with topics as diverse as Sports, Environment, Media and Communication and much more. It is an opportunity to get to know a new country, a new language, new friends and new horizons at no cost.

Partners

Rato - ADCC is partner of the following institutions:

Instituto Português da Juventude (Portuguese youth institute) (in Portuguese)