Karl Marx Str. 33
16816 Neuruppin
Germany
- Democracy and community development
- Gender
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
The aim of our work is to support the intercultural learning and to improve social skills of the participants. By taking part in common international activities including 'foreigners', and the 'foreign', the participants can get to know better themselves as well as others, and they get involved into questioning themselves.
In this process we see an opportunity to recognize, break up and change rigid perceptions and prejudices, in order to create a foundation for a mutual understanding. One of the goals of the meetings is to accept being different as one form of being equal.
Due to the language as an essential element in exchange measures we offer linguistic animation-training.
The meetings with young participants from every country can have several different contents. Programs can include sports or activities, as canoeing and climbing, as well as media-based and projects orientated in products, dealing with art or cultural topics, such as theatre, photography, video. The range of topics being on offer also includes subject-led programs, such as looking for historical traces, anti-racist work or ecological issues.
The actual topic of each meeting is determined by the interests and needs of the respective participants.
Besides the youth meetings we also offer trainings for youth workers dealing with issues concerning intercultural topics.
Together with the french german youth office we developed a basic training for intercultural youth workers; this we offer together with partners from France and Serbia / Poland. These trainings are held in every partner country for one week, after this training the participants can have a certificate for basic trainings. More info you can find at www.dfjw-zertifikat.org.
The Interkulturelles Netzwerk has a very good international network, we organize an annual meeting where we invite about 50 structures. we would be glad to share information inside this network and invite other organizations form our national network of ALF.
We are specialized in organizing intercultural - international seminars and trainings and we can share our experiences with other structures.
Since January 2015 we are one of the founding members of the network "MER - Mobility, Exchange, Reciprocity". This network is structured with organizations from different Euromed countries has aims like encouraging the contact between partners of the network in order to take educational and intercultural actions of youth mobility or supporting and strengthening our associations by sharing of information, best practices, resources and training.
In the next years the Interkulturelles Netzwerk want to focus the international activities more on the countries in the mediterranean area - so we wish to learn from the experience of other members of the ALF network.