ComicYouth Exchange APV
After having virtually met and worked through internet for the last three months six people from Germany, Greece, Poland, Portugal and Romania met in Berlin last weekend. They joined the…
Posts by Julia Mattstedt
Let’s explore EVS potential…
Volunteering forms the backbone of civil society, especially the European one. It can take many different forms: Helping people with special needs in your neighbourhood, working with children from difficult…
What happened at the ECI?
It is more than four years ago now that the Swiss student Anna Zuber had the idea to start the “Initiative for the European Citizens’ Initiative”. More than a hundred…
“The transnational approach is the most important to me.”
Chryssa has just finished her European Voluntary Service at Citizens of Europe. She went back to Greece, from where she originally comes, but will return to Berlin in Autumn to…
Training course on transcultural understanding
The overall aim of this TC is to exchange approaches on Intercultural learning and debate the utility of the Transcultural learning concept. During one week 24 youngsters from 6 countries…
TCTU- transcultural ways of living?
The Training Course on Transcultural Understanding took place 16-22.08.09 in Berlin. 24 participants from 6 countries came together in order to exchange perspectives of youth work and intercultural learning and…
Comic Youth Exchange!
“Comics as a tool to discover cultural diversity and enhance creativity”; Berlin, 9 – 16 October 2009. Thirty people from around Europe, together with several artists will gather in Berlin…
Intelligence as an erogenous zone
Valeryja Kustava, 24, is known as the wild child of the Belarusian literary scene. She published her first collection of poetry when she was only seven. The interview by Gert…
Civil society support for peace in the Middle East?
On 24th June the Euro-Israeli Cooperation Platform EICOP (formed by Citizens of Europe and many partner organisations last September) invited for its first public event in Berlin. The panel discussion took…
Life in the Stalinist Labor Camps
The Czech volunteer initiative politicalprisoners.eu organized its second seminar dedicated to the commemoration of victims of Stalinism (with support of the EU program Europe for Citizens 2007 – 2013). The…