“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…
Professional seminar on diversity-conscious educational approaches in Germany and Israel The social awareness for individual differences and characteristics will only be widespread, when the educational work goes hand by hand with diversity-conscious methods and approaches. As part of the ongoing project “Living Diversity in Germany and Israel – Challenges and Perspectives for Education and Youth…
For more than one year, professionals from the field of youth work and youth exchange in Germany and Israel have been sharing their experience, expertise and questions around diversity-conscious education in their countries. On June 21, 2017 the advisory council of the project “Living Diversity in Germany and Israel” met for the 3rd time to…
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Between November 14 and 16, 2016 ConAct hosted a conference in Lutherstadt Wittenberg in cooperation with the Israel Youth Exchange Authority. 120 German and Israeli professionals met to discuss diversity in education and youth exchange, to find out similarities and differences between both countries, to learn from each other and to laugh together. Watch our…
This week we talked with Jamal Alkirnawi, executive director of the organization “A New Dawn in the Negev”. Jamal has been part of two programs in the frame of the project “Living Diversity in Germany and Israel” and he shared with us his thoughts on the importance of diversity-conscious education in his organization as well…