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Infographic – EU budget explained
A growing number of “fairy tales” about the EU budget is part of the public discussion prior to every European Parliament election. The EU produced a nice interactive Infographic with some basic figures on how the EU money is spend and where the money comes from.
Website online: Added value Europe – Added value Peace
International project 2013 – 2015 about the role of the European Union as a model of peace on the example of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The website of the project is now online in English, German and in Bosnian language: www.mehrwerteuropa.eu
Aim of the project:
After the fall of the “Iron Curtain” Europe changed. It leads to resolutions and start-ups from various countries. A lot of this new countries are nowadays members of the European Union and part of the peace projects. Other countries strive to become a membership.
However, Bosnia and Herzegovina is a special case. Three fractious folk groups (Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs) are living quite more next to each other than together. The contract of Dayton was the end of the war and leads to a fragile state-structure, a structure nobody is convinced about it.
Our project has three main aims:
- Make participants from EU member states clearly that peace in Europe is not self-evident. For all European citizens it have to be a must to secure our fundamental European values of freedom, democracy, human rights, cultural diversity, tolerance and solidarity. We want to “demonstrate” this on the example of Srebrenica, the place of the massacre of 1995.
- Show participants from Bosnia & Herzegovina, how the European values have influenced/are influencing the life in the EU and present them the EU as a possible model for peace.
- The participating organizations should get connected as well as the participants of all nations among themselves to sustainable development and expansion of existing and new structures.
These objects are achieved in several steps:
- In preparatory seminars in the EU Member States, that are dedicated to the latest developments in Europe and introduce the participants to the situation of the state of Bosnia & Herzegovina.
- With a European seminar and an international conference with EU citizens and citizens of Bosnia & Herzegovina in Srebrenica.
- The project and its results will be disseminated e.g. through a documentary of the conference in Srebrenica.
The project receives financial support from the EU program “Europe for Citizens”.
UNESCO – Mobile Learning Week 2014
From 17 to 21 February 2014 the UNESCO will hold its flagship Mobile Learning Week, which focuses on how mobile phones can improve access to education material.
This year, the emphasis will be put on teachers as the pillars of our education systems and key actors in the digital revolution to promote inclusive and better learning everywhere. Several key challenges and opportunities will be discussed, such as ensuring equity of devices, online safety, limited mobile-friendly content and the need for teacher training.
Also read the newest developments in opening up education
Call for partners: Sound it out! – International Girls Camp on music and gender equality
Sonnenberg Kreis e.V. is looking for partner organisations to complete the partner constellation for the International youth meeting ‘Sound it out!’ to be held at International House Sonnenberg (Germany) in August 2014.
The youth meeting is to be implemented within the Erasmus+ Program.
Project idea
50 girls from 6 countries meet in the Harz Mountains to talk and discuss about gender equality, female roles and chlichés in the participating countries and Europe. Starting point will be music and the examination of females in popular culture and music (as musicians, producers, promoters and subjects of lyrics..).
The project addresses girls with and without disabilities between 16 and 21.
We are looking for 8 participants + 1 group leader from each partner country. We already found organisations from Croatia, Germany, Turkey and Great Britain.
Please read the project description below for further details on the programme, the financial conditions and how to join the project.
IH Sonnenberg - Call for Partner 2 Girls Camp
If you are generally interested in joining us as a partner, please contact us for further information until February 21, 2014.
Nora Ludl
Tel./Fon: +49 (0) 5582/ 944 – 115
Fax: +49 (0) 5582/ 944 – 100
n.ludl@sonnenberg-international.de