From the 2nd to the 5th of June, a high-profile delegation from Germany is visiting Athens and Thessaloniki. The experts in international youth work, want to learn about the political and social situation in Greece right at the location, and talk with Greek project partners in international youth work, among others. For the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) the delegation is headed by Parliamentary State Secretary Caren Marks.
The German Delegation will also meet Kelly Manoudi of our Greek ewoca³(+) project partner Hellenic Youth Participation. Within the framework of the ewoca³(+) funding programme, the organisation from Athens, together with the European youth education and youth encounter centre Weimar (EJB Weimar) and the association Education without Borders from Dunaewa/Belarus, develops innovative concepts for three international youth work camps. These European youth encounters will take place in the years 2015 to 2017 in Germany, Greece and Belarus. This three year collaboration will commence this August with a workcamp in Weimar. Here, youths from three countries creatively deal with the question of how a future society without problems of distribution might look like.
International youth work is not only an exciting experience for the youths from the participating countries, which helps them in their personal development. Projects like the ewoca³(+) workcamps also brings actors from civil society in each country into contact with each other. Together they are building a shared, peaceful Europe of tomorrow. Intensifying such European partnerships is also the goal of the German-Greek Youth Association (DGJW), the creation of which is a current task of the Federal Government. “We are ver happy for the experiences of the funding programmes ewoca³ and ewoca³(+) being part of this process”, said ewoca³ and ewoca³(+) project officer Katharina Teiting of the International Association for Education and Exchange (IBB e.V.). “It is great for our Athenian project partner Hellenic Youth Participation to contribute their own experiences in the field of international youth work.”