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.
Vacancies – eyesores or/and (new) chances of identification for communities: How to support initiatives of people and their voluntary work to successfully breath new life into unoccupied buildings Mandy Schulze, Humboldt University of Berlin, Institute of Education, Germany Abstract. Since 1990 the rural regions of
“The good, the bad and the Eastern Europeans – refugees and the communist past.” Under this headline, Iva Kopraleva and Rafaela Tripalo from Transition Dialogue Network presented research results from Bulgaria and Croatia at the conference “Deutschlandforschertagung 2016 – Children of Transition, Children of War”
As different as the transition experience was among people in the same country (let alone among the three countries), most interviews reveal a similar crucial experience of lasting impact: loss of trust, rules or orientation // Findings from inter-Generation Talks and Interviews with the “Children
