Diverse Horizons
By Keti Menagharishvili, young volunteer from Giorgia Each person is interested in your story, the way of telling the story and the narration using digital technologies. The mentioned project represents a good opportunity for closeness between cultures, sharing and understanding, appreciation of different cultures. Projects that foster cultural exchange and understanding play a crucial role in...
Remember the Past- Change the future
By Giorgi Managdadze, young volunteer from Georgia ,,Remember the past - Change the future!” is an innovation which will help young people to connect future to their history because the future depends on learning from our past. The inspiration of the project is the culture of remembering the past, preserving and strengthening it, because even today we believe that those who forget the past are...
Unforgettable trip to Tbilisi
By Sadagat, young volunteer from Azerbaijan As a young individual I participated in long-term multi stage project: “Remember to Act: Understand, Learn, Act” which is funded under the grant program “MEET UP! Youth for Partnership” by the Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) Foundation and the Federal Foreign Office in Tbilisi, Georgia. The meeting brought together project beneficiaries,...
Impressions of the visit to Georgia and of the event
My trip to Georgia, hosted by ProActive Group Georgia and funded by EVZ foundation, was my first international trip throughout my engagement in youth field. I was quite excited to go to Georgia, as I had visited it when I was a child. I arrived at night and went straight to the hotel located near the centre of the city. On the next day, I met the organisers and fellows from Georgia and Germany,...
City tour on the subject of resistance against National Socialism
By Adrienn, volunteer from Germany I was able to experience a city tour on the subject of resistance to National Socialism with a ninth grade class. It was an opportunity to see how history influences our everyday lives and that also helped the students to understand how hatred and exclusion can divide people, just when individuals could need the community. A teacher gave the tour, whose...
Remember the Past – Change the Future!
By Elene Zghenti, 17, Ideathon Participant from Bolnisi, Georgia After we won the project in the online Ideathon, we met again in Tbilisi, where we started thinking about the possibilities of developing our idea. We, the youth, have the ability, motivation, and desire to change reality and be one of the main actors in peace processes. Generally, Ideathon for young people is a platform that...
From Idea to Action: Our Journey from the Ideathon to Tbilisi
By Sascha Klughardt, Ideathon Participant from Germany As part of the remember to act ideation I was given the opportunity to travel to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, as part of a small group to work on ideas to foster intercultural exchange and the culture of remembrance. Together with Georgi from Georgia and Nariman from Azerbaijan, I developed an idea and concepts to promote it. We were...
Ideathon in Tbilisi
By Johanna, 20, Ideathon participant from Germany At the End of August, I had the opportunity to travel with four other people from Germany to Tbilisi in Georgia. Our goal was to work on ideas to promote remembrance culture in our home countries. These ideas were developed by us together with young people from Azerbaijan and Georgia in online sessions of the Ideathon before our trip to Georgia...
Exploring Remembrance and History in Tbilisi
By Franka, volunteer from Passau I participated in the Ideathon in Georgia, which was part of the project "Remember to Act". The meeting took place in Tbilisi in a former factory that has been converted into a hostel and a creative space. Together with the other participants, I worked on the implementation of our idea to promote remembrance culture in our countries. During the workshop we...
Meet up for peace – Workshop at a local School in Passau
By Hanna, volunteer from Passau In our workshop of "Meet up for Peace" in Nikola School, we first covered the broad topics of peace and war and conflict in the first hour. The point was for the students to share when and how they notice that peace or war is happening at different levels of our society and what it means to them personally. We restructured the following session to fit the needs of...