From 7th-30th August SCI Germany will be organising a German-Russian summer school on the subject of climate change. Topics to be discussed include, among others: - what are the causes and affects of climate change? - what can I, as an individual, or my organisation, do, in order to prevent climate change? - how can I, or my organisation, influence political decision-makers in this field? The first week of the school will be devoted to an inter-active series of workshops, keynote lectures and project visits, in order to exchange ideas & experiences among participants. Afterwards the group will be divided in order to support the work of different grassroot ecological projects in different parts of Germany. Details...

As our large-scale project, Youth Transcending New Frontiers, will shortly be ending- and without wishing to pre-empt the results of the final evaluation conference - it might be an appropriate time to make a short, balanced assessment of what we have all achieved together during these last 3 years. Details...

From 27th July - 17 August, with the financial support of the European Union, SCI Germany has educated & trained 21 Peace Messengers from 13 different countries. Immediately afterwards, the newly-born Peace Messenger teams were able to put theory into practice by visiting over 19 international workcamps in Switzerland, France, Belgium & Germany, in order to run one-day peace workshops for over 200 young volunteers in total. Each of the workshops was unique, having been put together and designed by the PMs themselves. They included diverse games, exercises, group-plays, theoretical discussion and confrontations with such issues as the roots of racism, stereotypes, intercultural conflicts, peaceful conflict transformation etc. Details...

We are pleased to announce that the EYF of the Council of Europe has today decided to award a grant to the Siberian Creative Group to implement their project "Nukher gathers Friends - promotion of human rights education among rural youth in Buryatia". Probably it is the first time ever that an NGO in the Republic of Buryatia has received a CoE grant. Details...

Stereotypes & prejudice about people & life in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus & Moldova are abound in our Western media today as ever before.  But who really knows the truth about what is happening? Do the people there share the same values, the same aspirations, the same concerns as their counterparts in the West, or do they look on the world with an entirely different perspective? One great way to find out is to take part in one of this year's international workcamps, and there are plenty of them. Details...

Thanks to the work of Dominika, TWC trainer from Poland, a power point presentation of the Travelling Workcamp on Human Rights is now available here (Download might take up to 3-5 minutes!). Details...

Within the frame of YTNF a second international training on project management will take place in Ukraine from 7th - 13th July 2008 hosted by SVIT. Detailed infos will be published on the ytnf site & a call for trainers & prepteam will be announced in due course. Details...

For further Info about this upcoming event, please refer to the Belarus page (under "future activities)!. Details...

Towards the end of 2007, the YTNF steering group created two new funds (Category A: small-scale grassroot projects and Category B: promoting international cooperation among PMTs) & subsequently launched a first call for project applications. Altogether a total of 8 applications were received by the deadline. Of those submitted, 2 were approved for funding, 3 were rejected and a further 3 were given the opportunity to be revised and resubmitted by the end of December, taking into account the critical remarks of the Jury. Details...

It was on January 5th 1968 that the election of Alexander Dubcek heralded the dawn of the famous “Prague Spring”, when - in the face of Soviet tanks - thousands of Czech working class people took to the streets under banners demanding “socialism with a human face”… Today, exactly 40 years on, looking at the global world around us, I begin to wonder if this slogan could be equally applied to the system that has since replaced socialism in virtually all former socialist countries of the world. Details...

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