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Remembrance and learning from World War II!

10.11.2020

The seminar will be held November 30 – December 4, 2020 online.  

Aim: to strengthen the relevance and quality of Remembrance work with young people while promoting peace, human rights and intercultural dialogue. The seminar will be held on a Zoom platform. It will include the group activities on sharing experiences and dialoging among the participants, common sessions with invited exerts and guests, the workshops with resource persons and sessions on follow-up actions.

The programme will focus on building a trustful, open, safe and reflective atmosphere in order to develop critical thinking to the participants and to foster a deep relationship between the participants and the theme. It gives participants space and time to reflect on how remembrance can be integrated and practiced in their work and how the quality of such endeavors can be improved. A specific focus will be given at building capacities to organise quality youth activities on the theme of remembrance.

The seminar will bring together some 50-60 participants from state parties to the European Cultural Convention, together with a selected number of participants from other countries directly concerned by the objectives of the seminar.

All interested candidates should:

  • be active in a youth organisation, network or initiative groups working on the topic of remembrance of the Second World War;
  • be multipliers (youth workers, youth leaders, trainers, teachers, etc.) involved in activities with young people on Remembrance of the Second World War;
  • be involved in the remembrance education projects, including in the areas such as historical and political sciences, research, search movements, memorial sites and museums;
  • have a relevant experience in working with human rights education / remembrance education / intercultural dialogue, peacebuilding and reconciliation;
  • be motivated to participate in the seminar and engage in the learning process;
  • be open and focused on the development and improvement of dialogue between youth organisations from different countries;
  • have the motivation and capacity to initiate follow-up initiatives, projects and programmes as a follow-up to the seminar in their working environments and/or in cooperation with other participants in the seminar;
  • be able to work independently in Russian or English;
  • have access to the Internet and be ready to allocate at around 4 hours per day within the working days of the seminar;
  • to be able to attend the whole seminar and all its programme elements.

The seminar is co-organised by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the National Youth Council of Russia and the Youth Department of the Council of Europe and the support of MIREA – Russian Technological University.

The activity is a part of the 2020 Action plan of the Framework Programme on co-operation between the Council of Europe and the Russian Federation in the field of youth policy as a contribution to implementing one of the objectives of the Framework Programme – promoting intercultural dialogue, peacebuilding and cultural diversity.

All interested candidates from state parties to the European Cultural Convention other than the Russian Federation will have to duly complete the application form available at http://youthapplications.coe.int by midday 21 November 2020 (CET) and upload with it a support letter from their organisation/institution.

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