Good Practice Examples
Mitgestalten! Active youth participation in Eastern Europe
The project Mitgestalten! promotes a variety of activities for more social participation of children and young people.
More Local Citizen Participation in St. Petersburg
The goal of this project was to foster the German-Russian academic discourse and citizen exchange, strengthen citizen participation and local self-governance.
Grassroot women mobilise together for democracy!
The threats against and the hindrance of the work of women’s organizations and other activists were the starting point for this international four-steps-project.
MEET UP! Youth for Partnership
With the MEET UP! Youth for Partnership funding programme, the Foundation EVZ and the Federal Foreign Office support international youth projects with Germany, Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine.
HATE NEWS vs. FREE SPEECH: Polarization & Pluralism in Georgian media
The project brings together journalists, activists and media experts from Georgia and Germany to discuss strategies to fight misinformation and strengthen freedom of speech.
MEET UP! German-Ukrainian Youth Encounters
The funding programme MEET UP! German-Ukrainian Youth Encounters of the Foundation EVZ has established a sustainable platform for bilateral youth exchanges and innovative German-Ukrainian project work.
demoSlam
demoSlam is a dialog format for unconventional exchange about shared values and differences – personal, close to everyday life and creative.
Armenian-Azerbaijani Dialogue Network
This project series aiming at the creation of a resource network of local facilitators for sustainable (cross-country) dialogue in and between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been implemented since 2018.
Navigating through contested German-Russian-Ukrainian Narratives
The ILPP (Moscow), inmedio and Ideas for Change (Kiev) implemented a German-Russian dialogue project in 2018 which was developed into a trilateral Ukrainian-Russian-German format in 2019 and 2020.
EU Perceptions and Reality in Moldova (WE&EU)
With the project IEP sought to open up new communication channels to the EU-critical parts of the population in the Republic of Moldova.
Events for Future
IBB Minsk and IBB Dortmund in cooperation with the Center for Environmental Solutions in Minsk organised the training series on sustainable event management “Events for Future”.
Ukraine calling
Ukraine Calling is a project-oriented capacity building programme for organisations from Ukraine, Belarus, France, Poland, and Germany.
Civic Tech Sisters: a program for young female leaders from Ukraine and Germany
Civic Tech Sisters is a program that brings together mentees with mentors to equip young aspiring female leaders with the knowledge of successful female leaders in the Civic Tech sphere.
GURN – Strengthening networks between think tanks in Ukraine and Germany
The project “German Ukrainian Researchers Network” (GURN) aimed to promote professional exchange between experts from German and Ukrainian think tanks.
Advancing Young Peacebuilder Careers
The project “Advancing Young Peacebuilder Careers” combines academic and practical training with regional dialogue for young experts from the Caucasus.
#GEOYOUTH2020 – Manifesto Engaging Youth in Politics in Georgia
Polis180 together with their long-standing partner, the Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP, Tbilisi) implemented a joint project to promote youth involvement in politics.
Platform for Civil Society Dialogue
“Platform for Civil Society Dialogue” focuses on the development of a dialogue platform between representatives of Russian, Belarusian and German civil society organizations engaged in the social sector.
Caucasus Summer School
Tri-national project between universities in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Germany
Multiple Perspectives on History
Young historians, IT experts, representatives of NGOs and journalists discussed new digital formats and multi-perspective approaches in historical work via interactive maps, apps, and virtual tours.
YOUTH COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: SEEDS FOR THE FUTURE
The “Youth-led Community Development” project aimed to foster youth-led community development, qualification, and exchange between young adults from Azerbaijan and Georgia regions.
Covering LGBT issues in transnational journalism
Covering LGBT issues in transnational journalism is an online exchange that took place in November and December 2020 between the journalistic community of Ukraine and Germany.
TRIYOU. German-polish-ukrainian Forum for multiplicators of youth work
The Forum TRIYOU aims to initiate partnership, create new ideas and support organisers of youth meetings with professional knowledge as well as an implementation of trilateral projects.
Digital Journalism for the Caucasus
Digital Journalism for the Caucasus is a project of Interlink Academy International Dialog and Journalism organized in 2018.
Study trip “Between research and politics: How do #thinktanks shape policy-making in Germany”
The study trip was organized by the project “Platform for Analytics and Intercultural Communication” and took place in Berlin.
GOOD IMPACT School of Social Entrepreneurship
The School of Social Entrepreneurship “GOOD IMPACT” is established in 2019 to connect motivated Belarusian activists, who want to open or just launched a social-oriented business, and international experts.
Dialogue for understanding and justice: European NGOs working together for conflict resolution in Donbas
The project started in 2018 by a German NGO Deutsch-Russischer Austausch (DRA) to strengthen civil society in Ukraine, Russia and the EU, to unite efforts for conflict resolution in Donbas, to promote human rights, democracy and rule of law in Ukraine.
Twin City Lab
The project “Stadt im Dialog 3: P2P Learning’s Growth of Urban Activism in Small Russian Cities” addresses the importance of physical infrastructure, media infrastructure and economic infrastructure.
Stadt im Dialog 3: P2P Learning’s Growth of Urban Activism in Small Russian Cities
The project “Stadt im Dialog 3: P2P Learning’s Growth of Urban Activism in Small Russian Cities” addresses the importance of physical infrastructure, media infrastructure and economic infrastructure.
Civic Tech Exchange
The main goal here is to provide the first step to a non-monopolised internet infrastructure for Civil Society. The clear goal of the project is advanced training in the field of Civic-Tech.
Learn to Сommemorate
“Learn to Commemorate” is a transnational civil society project to develop materials and formats for Jewish remembrance work in Ukraine.
Professional Exchange and Cooperation between Civil Society Actors from Germany and Belarus
The project goal was to intensify the exchange of expertise and cooperation between Belarusian and German NGOs.
Dialogue of Сapitals
The Dialogue of capitals in Moscow (2017) and Berlin (2018) was a part of a long-term youth project that was initiated by the alumni association of the German-Russian-Youth-Parliament (DRJUG e.V.)