Empowered by ACtion
Civic education crossing borders
In a network of five organizations – the Jugendakademie Walberberg from Germany, KIK (Club of Catholic Intelligentsia) and the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe from Poland, UNITED for Intercultural Action from Hungary and OPU (Organisation for Aid to Refugees) from the Czech Republic – we focus on developing non-formal civic education with young refugees and in the context of forced migration.
Our common goal is to strengthen empowerment-oriented approaches, to qualify professionals to further develop organizations in their work with young refugees and to exchange and explore creative, artistic and discrimination-sensitive methods for youth work.
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The funded project runs from January 2025 to June 2027.
In the years before the start, the partner organizations jointly developed and prepared the project.
The activities of the project, such as international trainings, power-critical consulting, local group activities, and scientific support, will continue until mid-2027 and are funded until then. At the end of the project period, a final event will take place to present the results and generate impulses for further work. After that, a joint evaluation will follow, and we will examine how individual activities can be continued in the long term.
- Germany: Peter Kirschbaum; kirschbaum@jugendakademie.de
- Poland: Anita Szymborska; anita.szymborska@kik.waw.pl
- Hungary: Barbara Gecse; barbara@unitedagainstracism.org
- Czech Republic: Martin Rozumek; martin.rozumek@opu.cz
If you are an organization working with refugee youth in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, or Hungary and want to expand your methods repertoire with artistic approaches as well as reflect your work from a power-critical perspective, you have come to the right place. Feel free to contact the involved project partners with your request to participate! We are always happy to expand our regional networks.
Our openly advertised international trainings for professionals are regularly promoted on this website under „News“.
Journalists or media representatives can also reach out to the listed contacts in the respective partner countries.
We would be happy to invite you to our events by prior arrangement. Additionally, upon request, we can establish contact with our partner organizations, local youth groups, or our scientific and power-critical support team.
We thank the institutions that make it possible for us to carry out the project “Empowered by ACTion – civic education crossing borders” at all. The current project is funded by the following institutions:
