Realizing that difference is nothing permanent This is what matters in the end. These were the closing words which the participants recited in summary of the experience gained through the exchange program ‘Your Story Moves – Encounters of Young People in Migration Societies’. After a week spent together in October 2018 in Israel, it was…
Nothing can connect people like a whole week spent together, travelling around the country and sharing life stories! Young people in Germany and Israel have diverse cultural, religious and national identities. Many of them come from families with a migration story or have experienced migration themselves. Under the motto “Your Story Moves!” a group of…
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30 educators from the field of youth and educational work met in the frame of the project “Living Diversity – Challenges and Perspectives for Education and Youth Exchange” and set new impulses for youth exchange in Germany and Israel as migration societies. The seminar “German-Israeli Youth Exchange: Encounters of Young People in Migration Societies”, which…
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Training program for the German-Israeli Youth Exchange Young people from Germany and Israel are increasingly bringing together a variety of personal stories, different cultural identities and national affiliations. An open and reflected approach of this diversity should be consciously included also in the educational work of German-Israeli youth encounters. As part of the ongoing project…
“Facing Diversity – Living Diversity in Germany and Israel”: ConAct – Coordination Center German-Israeli Youth Exchange hosted a one-day professional forum on June 22, 2017 in Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus in Berlin. “Life in open and democratic societies has been an important topic in German-Israeli education and exchange programs for decades and is at the same time in…