The Association was set up during the 1990s, as local volunteers noted a lack of activities for 14 year old youths in everyday live. This encouraged them to set up a youth organisation that promoted the social , labour and technological insertion of 14 year old youths.

Mainly local youths in the Raval Quarter. Youths from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds have a key role in the decision making process regarding the activities to be developed, maintained and adapted. Youth assemblies are held every week and the decisions taken  are binding for the organisation.

Teachers, educational agents, community professionals, workshop leaders, social workers and youth workers also benefit from the association’s projects.

Associació per a Joves Teb is a youth centre for people aged from 12 to 24, open every evening from 5pm to 8pm, offering a wide range of activities centred on youth culture. Its principal aim is digital literacy and youth participation in different dimensions and aspects of everyday life, promoting the autonomy and development of youth through significant methodologies using ICT related to their interests.

They organise workshops with youngsters related to their current socio-cultural environment, the multicultural Raval neighbourhood in Barcelona, working with media such as music, sports, digital storytelling, video production, graphic design, web, and videogames (Raval surf, Bollywood workshops, Artescape, etc).

TEB also works on social skills and intercultural dialogue with their participants: people of different ages, cultural and social backgrounds work together  in small groups under an umbrella project, learning how to collaborate, live together, discuss and get to know other people and places in the neighbourhood.

They work with different social issues that are very close to the different groups involved (violence, unemployment, social housing, public resources in the neighbourhood, racial and ethnic issues, gender and women’s issues and issues involving going back to the home land, trading and business in Raval, history and oral memories, etc…).

Finally, the association’s practice of using free software and applying Creative Commons licences to the audio-visual content produced by the youngsters ensures the dissemination of IEM-produced content and its use by other organisations working in the area.

The centre is a reference point in Barcelona, and even in Spain, for its long lasting experience. They have won numerous prizes for their work, including the Incavol prize for the website, along with local and regional prizes for social inclusion of children and women.

The association carries out internal evaluations and keeps diaries to follow up the different actions. The project blogs are used as an external and reflexive tool. They also contact professionals to do group evaluations.

Professionals including technical-computer specialists, teachers, educators, anthropologists, multimedia designers who have been formed through the Teb association and volunteer workers.

About 20% of the money comes from the County Council and the rest is earned through courses and activities provided by the association.