Organization info
 
  1. Volksbund
    ” Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. is a humanitarian organisation charged by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany with recording, maintaining and caring for the graves of German war casualties abroad. It also advises public and private institutions and promotes a culture of remembrance as well as international cooperation in the area of war grave maintenance, and encourages young people to come together to learn at the last resting places of war casualties.

    In 1953, the Volksbund started to organise international youth exchanges and work camps throughout Europe under the motto “Graveside reconciliation – peace education”. The education officers in the regional branches collaborate with schools and higher education establishments and carry out projects in war cemeteries or youth exchange centres both in Germany and internationally. “

    Web page: www.volksbund.de

  1. YIHR BiH
    The Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina (YIHR BiH) was established in 2007. Its founders were young people who wanted to be more actively involved in the processes of democratization of the country, strengthening the rule of law, dealing with the past and establishing progressive contacts in post-conflict Bosnian society and the region. Since its founding, YIHR BiH has been working to empower and involve young people throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina in human rights activism, conducting various non-formal education programs in the field of human rights, critical thinking and dealing with the past, and especially working with young people on transitional justice and dealing with the past using creative and innovative methods of working with young people. In its work so far, the YIHR has empowered hundreds of young activists and supported the establishment of four non-governmental organizations stemming from the work of YIHR activists. YIHR is also recognized for its activist youth network, which is most present in the public through direct street actions.

    Web page: yihr.ba
  1. Une Terre Culturelle
    Une Terre Culturelle is a sustainable human development project based on reciprocal and continuous intercultural learning. The association develops projects and actions around the establishment of intercultural exchanges in direct connection with local realities. These actions address various contemporary and interdependent themes such as education, social inclusion and ecology. These actions aim to develop the intercultural sensitivity of the audiences, the participants in our projects come from a wide social mix and often have fewer opportunities for mobility.

    Each participant, young person with less mobility opportunity, social worker or professional from other fields is thought of as an actor in the society in which he / she evolves. By meeting, these people from a wide social mix trigger a process of civic growth, openness, daily commitment.

    All of Une Terre Culturelle’s actions have their roots in social and local entrepreneurship. Mobility and encounters as a development tool make it possible to go beyond prejudice and to discover other realities while initiating reflection on the links existing between each of them. By implementing these citizenship education actions, Une Terre Culturelle contributes to understanding the interdependencies between environmental, social, economic and cultural issues in our societies. This step is part of the process of learning otherness and the emergence of a real tool of local and international solidarity.

  1. Gwenilli
    Gwennili… “Swallow” in Breton, this familiar bird is found everywhere in Brittany and in Europe. Close to people, it is also a migratory bird and in this it symbolizes exchange for us. Our objective is to help people discover European realities through direct confrontation with them. It is by experiencing Europe that we understand it. We want to help better understand the current changes in society and especially their international dimension. These developments concern our life as citizens, our professional life, in short, our personal life. And it is to young people that we address ourselves in the first place, by encouraging their active participation in the society of today and tomorrow. Gwennili is an association which exists since 1998. Our goal is to bring Europe to life and understand it by meeting and exchanging with young people from other cultures. We organize intercultural meetings for young people aged 16 to 25 on different themes and with specific audiences (students, schoolchildren, young people in integration or vocational training, etc.). We offer training in intercultural pedagogy for leaders or teachers. We help young people to go abroad as part of the European Voluntary Service (EVS). According to the projects and the specificities of each one, we design the meetings with the partners concerned and the participants and offer support for the meeting project. Our association is rooted in Lower Brittany, an outlying region with no common border with other European countries. Our intention is to create links between people from here and elsewhere, to place local action in an international context.