c/o Allianz, Merlitzstraße 9
12489 Berlin
Germany
- Youth and education
The Kreisau-Initiative has a board of 3 to 7 persons that take main decisions regarding the organisation. The board works on a voluntary basis. The organisation employs 9 permanent staff and further project-related temporary staff. In cooperation with Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste, we host every year a volunteer The three focal areas of our work are Inclusion, Contemporary History and Human Rights, and Social-Ecological Transformation. The Kreisau Initiative’s main sources of funding are private contributors and foundations, supplemented by European and governmental agencies. We have been organising workshops, trainings courses, and meetings for different target groups, but mainly for youngsters.Our project participants come from all over the world, belong to different generations, and are from different educational and social backgrounds. Our main partner is the Kreisau Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe based in Krzyżowa, Poland, where most of our activities take place.
Through our work we want to promote the following values: European understanding build through active dealing with the history of resistance and opposition in the 20th century; Individual sense of responsibility as the foundation for a democratic European civil society; Ethical orientation to universal human rights; inclusion and involvement of people from different social, national and ethnic backgrounds, despite age, gender, political and religious beliefs, sexual orientation and constraints; Our educational approach is characterised by orientation to action, learning by experience and debating important political and social issues of our times. Kreisau-Initiative is an important German partner of the Krzyżowa Foundation and a creative mind in the Krzyżowa network. We want to keep on being a vivid nongovernmental organisation, one that people from all over Germany get involved with. Furthermore, we want to deepen and broaden the connections of Krzyżowa with the civil society in Germany and Europe, introduce Kreisau-Initiative to a broader public and win over decision makers to help the realisation of our ideas. We conduct our projects in close cooperation with the Krzyżowa Foundation and develop them continuously in both programme and methodology aspects. We are a reliable partner for donors and cooperating institutions as well as a recognised educational institution for innovative projects in Germany and Europe, especially for inviting to our projects participants that have been underrepresented in international exchange programmes.
The Kreisau Initiative’s main projects/ activities (among others): Fair Life (teaching fairness to disabled youth through sports activities) MICC (a simulation of trials before the ICC for high-school and university students) Local in Global (a project for youth workers, activists, trainers and multipliers from rural areas in the field of sustainable development) GIRLS! (an international and inclusive exchange programme fostering empowerment of girls) Activists against Xenocide (training course on methods for working on the topic of migration with youngsters)