NGO

NGO Zone at Open’er has been for many years an inseparable part of the festival. Autonomous non-government organizations are one of the foundations of a civil society, and furthermore – a democratic country and our freedom. The recent weeks, after the barbaric Russian aggression on Ukraine, has made us feel their importance even more!

In 2022 we'll meet the following organizations at the festival:

• Foundation In Relationship with Cancer
• Direction Art Foundation
• Foundation „The Bridge of Hope”
• The social campaign „Dawca.pl – Be an aware organ donor”
• Ponton Group of Sexual Educators
• The Puckie Hospice Association st. Padre Pio
• Modern Poland Foundation
• For a Change Fund
• Foundation ELEPHANTS ON BALCONY
• Anna Dymna’s „Against the Odds” Foundation
• Foundation HOME – we care for the young
• Helen Keller Foundation
• AIESEC Poland
• Polish Humanitarian Action
• Center for Youth Co-operation and Mobility
• Empowering Children Foundation
• Association for Legal Intervention
• International Federation of Medical Students Associations IFMSA-Poland
• The Transplantation Foundation - LIVERstrong
• IUSTITIA
• Zrzeszenie Kaszubsko-Pomorskie
• Polish Center for International Aid
• Tour de Konstytucja

NGO Zone debuted at Open’er in 2006 and has since become an ongoing festival activity. The turnout of both the applying organizations and the visitors during the festival leaves no doubt, that it’s an important and necessary place. We wish for social issues to be seen from young people’s perspective, who like to discuss, but at the same time still search for their own path in a democratic society. That’s why every year we invite the third sector to Open’er’s specially arranged tent in a central point of the festival’s main alley.