P.O. Box 410 926
10115 Berlin
Germany
- Arts
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
- Youth and education
Makers for Humanity (M4H) - formerly Positive Nett-Works e.V. (PNW) - as non-profit organisation initiates cultural and educational events and performances, and works in the field of alternative media to connect youth sharing positive examples to save the environment and foster international understanding and cooperation. It maintains a flexible structure with core members and variable project teams. Partners include schools, regional authorities and associations depending on the projects in progress. Main themes are public capacity building in areas such as intercultural, inter-religious understanding, inter-faith dialogues, environmental and arts education. Support is received through public funding & foundations, municipalities and partners. Actions include projects like dialogues, seminars, and cross-media new-projects also internationally. They include the facilitation of youth symposia, environmental campaigns, and local intercultural community events or children festivals. Main partners over the years included the City of Hannover, the local newspaper Hannoversche Allgemeinen Zeitung, the FEZ-Berlin (Europe’s largest non-profit Children, Youth, & Family Center).
Makers for Humanity (M4H) - formerly Positive Nett-Works e.V.’s mission is to apply the arts and innovative forms of communication for socio-cultural capacity building to address intercultural concerns in society. Activities support cultural youth projects to include the arts more prominently and create public awareness in the fields of environmental protection and social cohesion. By using games, activities&performances, and community dialogue processes participants are lead to find common ground and trust and enjoy shared activities. PNW organizes various forms of educational encounters, for example “cultural creative” salons, where youth, decision-makers, citizens, and artists meet for creative round table dialogues. The main objective here is to support dialogue, deliberation and peacemaking processes. Another special focus lies on using modern media tools that involve and assist users to create their own media and platforms. Already before EXPO 2000 in Hannover PNW created projects in public spaces for raising awareness for issues about cultural, social, and environmental concerns.
Selection from projects between 1997-2015:
* Future Raft, ‘Swimming Future Classroom’, co-created by youth and NGOs, travelled 300 kms from Hannover to Berlin and
* future-islands: floating solutions for climate-change related problems: http://future-island.euwww.joy-art.de/asap/fi.html
* Local Children and Youth Media Projects to develop media competences. One product was for example a „Leinekunst Children’s Newspaper“ in co-operation with the Wissenschaftsladen Hannover e.V., and YouBe e.V. : www.leinekunst.de/positivenews
* Open-Forum - facilitating youth and cultural events since the mid 90's by using established and new conferencing and dialog formats, see for example Youth of Europe or Ganztagsschulkongress: http://open-forum.de/events/NeuesEuropa.htmlhttp://open-forum.de/events/Ganztagsschulen.html
* 2008. First Regional Campaign ‘1001 Actions for Dialogue’ launched for the Euro-Med Year of Intercultural Dialogue. PNW contributed in Leipzig and Berlin.
See more at: http://www.annalindhfoundation.org/history-and-milestones#sthash.rylb6w5...
* participation: Anna Lindh Forum 2010 in Barcelona and report: „We are the People!“ http://www.farah-lenser.de/files/pdf/anna_lindh_forum_we_are_the_people.pdf
* participation, lecture and publication: Conference in Weimar / Germany 2010 / European Union and the Union for the Mediterranean – A Vision becomes True“ Hertie Stiftung / Reihe Tagungsberichte / Band 71 / 2010 / ISBN 978-3-939182-26-9
* participation: Common Action of the German Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation 2011 „Mediterranean on the Spot“. Dialogue Project with the „Combatants of Peace“ from Palestine and Israel visiting Germany: http://anna-lindh-salon.de/report-combatants-for-peace-salon-no-1-may-2011/
* 2011 in the Framework of the Anna-Lindh Programme BELIEVE IN DIALOGUE - ACT FOR CITIZENSHIP Judge Mokhtar Yahyaoui from Tunis was invited by PNW to Berlinhttp://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-00012...
* participation: Common Action of the German Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation 2012 „Mediterranean on the Spot“. Cultural Project: „Mediterra. Islands of Hope on Tour“.
* participation: Common Action of the German Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation 2013 „Mediterranean on the Spot“. Dialogue Project: How to live and encourage cultural diversity?