Austausch e.V. (Berlin)
Austausch e.V. is an international non-governmental organization that has been committed to promoting peaceful coexistence among citizens in democratic Europe since 1992. Austausch e.V. supports the development of pluralistic societies in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia, as well as the EU, and advocates for peaceful dialogue between Germany and Eastern European countries. The focus of our international project work includes education, youth exchange, civil rights, history, environment, media and social affairs. Austausch e.V., together with Sofia Platform, has been the main coordinator of the “Transition Dialogue” network since 2015. From 2009 to 2011, Austausch e.V, was one of the founding members of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum, and since 2014 has been one of their sponsors.
Jan Dreyer, history teacher, has been examining and researching the ways in which the transition process and reunification period is approached German history text books and has written this report that compares his findings across textbooks in Bavaria and Saxony. Within the short period of
Can we still have a conversation with each other? We all want to be heard, but are not always prepared to listen? The social climate of conversation seems poisoned, dialogue increasingly turns into discord; hatred and agitation often dominate the discourse. In this short video, the
Ostdeutsche Frauen-Biographien als Reibungspunkte der Generationen „In meinen Gesprächen habe ich immer wieder gemerkt: Da ist etwas, was es bei den Frauen im Westen Deutschlands noch nicht und im Osten Deutschlands noch immer gibt: das tief verinnerlichte Wissen, dass Arbeit Selbständigkeit verleiht, dass Kinder zum
Open Lithuania Foundation (Vilnius)
The Open Lithuania Foundation (OLF) launched its activities in October 1990 as an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organisation, with its main objective being to support the development of an open and democratic civil society in Lithuania during the transition period out of communism. OLF renewed its activities in 2017 with a fresh structure and format, and its projects today are aimed at promoting the formation of an open, active, and tolerant civil society in Lithuania, actively engaging in activities in the spheres of civic engagement, education, research, culture, law, social media, independent media, public health, social areas and, above all, the promotion of a knowledge-based society. OLF works to strengthen the protection of fundamental rights in Lithuania and Europe, and to promote tolerance and support of vulnerable groups in society.
Sofia Platform Foundation (Sofia)
Sofia Platform’s work is characterised by two main strands: historical and political education throughout Bulgaria, particularly in regions outside the capital; and its involvement in the core identity debate that many Central and Eastern Europeans find themselves in post-transition: who are we now, and why are we who we are? Sofia Platform was originally founded in 2013 in response to the Arab Spring, in order to support those countries in transition phases through lessons learned and personal experiences. Since 2014, its focus has been on the question of how the lack of addressing the transition affects the current social and political situation in Bulgaria. Sofia Platform has a large network of national and international experts in many fields of education, such as historians, teachers and cultural workers, and is part of Networking European Citizenship Education (NECE) and Networking Arab Civic Education (NACE).
Transition Dialogue – Konferenz in Sofia Am 22. und 23. November fand in Sofia eine Konferenz zur Vorbereitung der weiteren Arbeit zum Thema “Transition Dialogue” “The good, the bad and the Eastern Europeans – refugees and the communist past.” Under this headline, Iva Kopraleva and Rafaela Tripalo from Transition Dialogue The workshop explores the way the generation of transition understands the notion of “otherness” and how their current perception has been influenced by the process
Transition Dialogue – Konferenz in Sofia / Conference in Sofia
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Deutschlandforschertagung 2016 – Children of Transition
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Workshop NECE conference 2015: “Otherness” through the eyes of the generation of transition
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Zaklada Znanje Na Delu (Zagreb)
Zaklada Znanje Na Delu (the Knowledge at Work Foundation) was established in cooperation with Croatian public educational institutions, and implements programmes aimed at young people and teachers in order to gain practical knowledge in the education sector. These in particular are intended to promote exploratory learning and creativity in the education sector as a means of addressing the problem of employability in Croatia that has come about due to the “brain drain,” particularly prevalent in the post-transition era, and therefore these programmes are meant to tackle the skills gap between the education and business sectors in Croatian education fields. This includes job-shadowing opportunities for young people and company workshops for businesses.
On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, an online expert workshop was held for members of project groups within the international project “Transition Dialogue 2019 – 2021
“The good, the bad and the Eastern Europeans – refugees and the communist past.” Under this headline, Iva Kopraleva and Rafaela Tripalo from Transition Dialogue
The workshop explores the way the generation of transition understands the notion of “otherness” and how their current perception has been influenced by the process
Stowarzyszenie 61 (Warsaw)
Stowarzyszenie 61 (English: Association 61) was founded in 2005, and has been supporting conscious and active participation of citizens in elections as well as monitoring the public life in Poland since 2007. They have cultivated a specific set of IT tools to support election processes and research parliamentary data. They aim to achieve their goals through the civic education of youth and adults, as well as gathering, analysing and sharing data on public life. Their work is based on the principles of impartiality and equal access to information for all Poles. In 2019, Association 61 received an Award for Social Engagement from Polish Business Roundtable. In 2022, they launched the project “Obywatelski HiT” (English: “The Civil History and the Present Project”), which was created in response to the introduction of a new subject – History and the Present – in secondary schools.
At obywatelskihit.pl, you can find an extensive database of educational materials, including films, lesson scenarios, exercise proposals, source texts, dictionary entries etc. Amongst them there are new materials, created especially for learning History and the Present by our team and partner initiatives, alongside specifically selected pre-existing educational materials.
Congress of Culture Activists (Kyiv)
The Congress of Cultural Activists (CCA) contributes to the development of civil society and the creation of creative communities in Ukraine. They develop cultural activism networks and contribute to the implementation of interdisciplinary projects in cooperation with international experts and national alliances. The work of the CCA aims to further intercultural cooperation for positive development in in Ukraine and implement projects on socially relevant issues. Furthermore, they focus on the development of creative industries to uplift dialogue and collaboration as a means of cultural integration to support progress and encourage activism and active citizenship in a post-transition society.
The exhibition LOST IN TIME is about objects and people who have lost their past and cannot move forward into the future. The discussion “Transition
The transition dialogues are about experiences and memories about the very recent history. For Ukraine, the communist past is a taboo issue, only fragments appear
For Ukraine, the issue of knowledge communist past is a taboo topic. While only fragments of the issue appear on the surface, it divides families
Photographer Dmitry Borko looks back on the events of failed Soviet coup attempt in August 1991, as does Elena, who recognized herself in one of
Anait Sagoyan is a Berlin-based poet, writer and photographer. In her novel House of Paraffin, published 2021 in Russian, she tells the story of two
December 3rd, 3 p.m. CET – online – This autumn pictures from the protests in Belarus gradually merged with the memories of the last days
