Both the German and the Israeli societies grow in a wide variety of narratives, stories, identities and backgrounds. Be it a cultural one, religious, ethnic, social or gender related. These topics are tackled in various forms through literature, music, politics and more. In both countries these themes have made their way onto the big screen…
Nora Ellerbrock is a project coordinator for Youth Network Lambda, working with LGBTIQ* youth in Germany. They took part in the professional exchanges as well as in the conference of the project “Living Diversity”. We talked with them about their work, the institution Lambda and their experience with our project “Living Diversity”. Nora, what was…
During our professional exchange program “Identity and Cross-Cultural Encounters in a Pluralistic Society” in Haifa/Israel we had the chance to speak with two Israeli educators about how to educate diversity in a pluralistic society despite or precisely because of given societal conflicts. Watch now the two interviews with Moran Ofek, Director of the Hand in…
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Bilateral seminar to discuss and plan pilot projects Young people in Germany and Israel have diverse cultural, religious and national identities. Many of them come from families with a history of migration. It often happens that young people have experienced immigration to Israel or Germany themselves. How do we further develop German-Israeli youth exchange to…
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“Identity and Cross-Cultural Encounters in a Pluralistic Society” – Living Diversity in Germany and Israel: The Israel Youth Exchange Authority and ConAct – Coordination Center German-Israeli Youth Exchange hosted a follow-up of 2016 professional exchange program from November 27 to December 1, 2017 in Israel. During this exchange, around 40 participants from both countries got…
Read more Educating Towards Diversity – A Video Recap of Our Professional Exchange Program in Haifa