“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…
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…
Germany has always been an immigration country. But it is only in the last two decades that the country considers its multicultural character as an integral part of its society. During our conference in November we opened the floor for a discussion around impulses for action in order to empower a productive and accepting coexistence…
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…