FLAGSHIP PROGRAMMES
Förderverein Begegnungen 2005 e.V.
National Network
Germany
Address
Frankenstraße 54Country
GermanyCity
KölnStreet address 2
Frankenstraße 54Mobile Phone
+49 (0)176 84148894Telephone
+492215060492Telephone (other)
+49 (0)177 5438706Website
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2005Contact Person1
Michael KrebsContact Person 2
Christina SchusterOrganisation Type
Non-Governmental OrganizationFields of Activity
Youth and educationGeneral Information
We are a non-profit organization with the domicile in Ilfeld/Thuringia and four members of staff in our office in Cologne. The budgetary resources are approx. 200.000 € p.a. We receive governmental promotion by ConAct, the Goethe Institute, the Department of migration and refugees, the Federal Ministry of the Interior, public funds of the federal states (e.g. North Rhine-Westphalia, Thuringia) and other sponsors: InterCity Hotel, Van-Meeteren-Stiftung, Freundeskreis Heinrich Heine, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Bob-Stiftung Berlin, ZEIT-Stiftung. Our projects are international youth exchanges with Israel, European countries, Taiwan and henceforth with the USA. The main integration projects are "PACT Parents and Children together - Jugend filmt", and the international project of education „Encounter – Remember – Shape the Future“, "Have a Dream" Main Partners: Freundeskreis Heinrich Heine Erinnern für die Zukunft e.V. Haifa-Foundation.Mission and Objectives
Our main intention is to create international encounters in youth exchange projects, prior ranking with Israel. Further activities in the Mediterranean are planned. We bring together young people engaged in all kinds of art (Music, Theatre, and Dance), culture and religion. Promotion of the European thought, Europe and the Mediterranean, interreligious dialogue.Main Projects / Activities
Our main working topics: - Remembering the Holocaust - Peaceful and democratic future and human dignity - Interreligious dialogue and sympathy - Cultures in Europe, Israel and the Mediterranean areas - Promotion of the European idea - Integration work The continuous project „To find a way” successfully brings together youths from Germany and Israel, from Israel Muslims, Christians and Jews. They discuss in the project topics like diversity, history (especially the time of Nazism in Germany), Jewish life in Germany, Religion and Peace. Mutual respect and appreciation are key to the project and is focused on in every meeting. In "Remember The Past – Shape The Future" (2022/23) Begegnungen 2005 e.V. partners with Yad Vashem, the Jewish synagogue congregation of Cologne, two schools in Israel and Germany; under the sponsorship of the Cologne Mayor. Students interpret poems created from victims of the Holocaust, composing music remembering the terrible crimes of that time. They meet both in Germany and Israel and play together on one stage. In Germany they investigate the history of the Jewish students of the school taking part in the exchange. In the project “Instruments of Peace” Youths from the Galilee West-East-Multicultura” orchester have visited Saarlouis/Germany, following up on another visit. The guests live in families of German students, really getting to know each other. Together with youths from Ukraine they played music on behalf of peace and freedom. Begegnungen 2005 e.V. organizes each year between 10 and 15 of such projects, ramping up the activity after Corona again.