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Training Course
22-28 August 2022 | Berlin, Germany
Since Russia started its latest aggression against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, we are witnessing the return of war and war crimes to Eastern Central Europe. Every day we can see its horrors in the news and on social media. 30 years after the end of the Soviet Union, Putin not openly denies Ukraine the right to exist as an independent nation and as a sovereign state, but he also frames this attack as part of a global conflict with NATO and the United States.
This new historic situation also raises many questions for youth work, citizenship education and history projects. Until this year, for many people in Europe it felt like we had overcome the time in which nations were fighting against each other with lethal weapons. In the field of historic and civic education, the idea of war with all its atrocities was rather discussed as something that happened in the past and should never happen again.
In this new situation, we want to invite to a new training as part of the project “Once upon today… in Europe“. In particular, we would like to revisit the transition period between 1989 and 1991, its different narratives and meanings for the countries in Central and Eastern Europe. This topic seems to us even more important and up-to-date, since today we can still see the direct impact of this period. The old „turn of an era“ is meeting a new one.
As educators we also feel the need of reflecting on the past and how we can integrate the current developments in Ukraine into our educational work. We are already facing the challenge that we need to adapt our programs in order to meet the needs of our participants who want to share their thoughts on the war and would like to find ways to deal with it. Furthermore, we would like to pinpoint our professional boundaries. What lies in the responsibility of the educational work and how can we deal with individual and collective traumata? In order to explore this topic, to reflect and creatively deal with methods of non-formal education, we are inviting people being active in youth work, citizenship education or history projects from Estonia, Germany, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine (also people living now abroad in one of the mentioned countries) this summer to Berlin.
You will learn how:
To bring together different perspectives on the same event/subject and learn practical methods to approach history
To develop personal connections and explore how stories shape your personal identity, which stories are told in your family, community and how they influence your identity
To use history in everyday life and various other projects
To promote tolerance and better understanding of cultures and what helps us to better understand the perspectives and stories of others
To develop critical thinking and grow awareness of the existence of more than one perspective
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This Training Course is
for 25 participants
from Estonia, Germany, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
and recommended for
Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Youth coaches
Working language(s):
English
Kreisau-Initiative e.V. (Youth NGO)
As committed citizens of the European continent, we support the integration of Europe and present day' Krzyżowa. Based on the Kreisau Circle and Central and Eastern Europe opposition movements' ideas, we connect people from various backgrounds through active remembrance, mutual perception, and constructive actions.
What is important to us?
Following values lie behind our work:
mutual understanding in Europe built through active dealing with the history of resistance and opposition during the 20th century,
the individual sense of responsibility as the foundation for a democratic civil society in Europe,
ethical action respecting universal human rights,
inclusion and involvement of people from different social, national and ethnic backgrounds, of diverse age, gender, sexual orientation, political and religious beliefs, and disabilities.
Action-oriented education, learning by experience, and debating current political and social issues are characteristics of our educational approach.
What do we want to be?
Kreisau-Initiative is an important partner of the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe and a creative mind in the Krzyżowa network. We want to keep on being a vivid nongovernmental organisation, in which people from all over Germany can get involved. Furthermore, we want to deepen and broaden the connections between Krzyżowa and the civil society in Germany and Europe, inform the public about it, and win over decision-makers for our goals. We conduct our projects in close cooperation with the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe and develop contents and methods continuously. Our team is highly qualified; thus, funding and cooperating institutions can trust us. What's more, we are a recognised educational institution that realises innovative projects, also addressed at persons usually not included in international exchange programmes.
Contact for questions:
Carolin Wenzel
E-Mail:
Phone: +49 30 538 931 63 63
Germany - 90€
Estonia - 50€
Moldova - 15€
Poland - 30€
Romania - 15€
Ukraine - 15€
For Ukrainians who are currently living abroad due to the war, the rate of 15 € applies.
Accommdation, food and all programm costs are covered by the organizer.
Germany - max. 180€
Estonia - max. 275€
Moldova - max. 275€
Romania - max. 275€
Ukraine - max. 275€
Poland - max. 180€