2012

"Le Projet d’Appui au Renforcement des Actions pour le Dialogue Interculturel et Social (PARADIS) mené par le Groupe de Recherche et de réalisation pour le Développement Rural (GRDR) en Mauritanie et en France vise à promouvoir le dialogue interculturel et la citoyenneté entre les peuples du nord et du sud et à renforcer la solidarité économique entre les migrants et les acteurs des territoires d’origine. Il s’agira d’une part d’organiser un festival culturel au Gorgol à l’occasion duquel  chaque groupe socioculturel présentera  les valeurs ou spécificités faisant sa richesse. Une exposition photo sera réalisée à cette occasion afin d’être présentée en France à destination des migrants de la seconde génération et de la société civile en France. D’autre part, au delà de l’échange interculturel et de la promotion de la citoyenneté,, ce projet vise à mobiliser les migrants, à renforcer et à harmoniser leurs interventions citoyennes pour le développement de leur région d’origine. La constitution de l’espace d’échange sur les migrations dans le Gorgol durant le second semestre du projet permettra enfin de valoriser et de mettre en débat les enseignements tirés des activités interculturelles et citoyennes en France et de lancer dans la durée une dynamique d’échange « double espace » avec les acteurs clefs du développement et de la migration..
L'objectif spécifique du projet est de promouvoir le dialogue interculturel et la citoyenneté entre les peuples.
Le projet est mené en partenariat avec l’Association des Maires et Parlementaires du Gorgol (AMPG) en Mauritanie et le Réseau des Associations Mauritaniennes en Europe (RAME) du côté de la France.
Les principaux groupes cibles dans ce projet sont les associations de migrants et ressortissants de la région du Gorgol en France, les migrants de retour dans le Gorgol, les acteurs régionaux de développement dans le Gorgol, les associations cultuelles des jeunes du Gorgol.
Les activités principales se dérouleront à Kaédi (Gorgol/Mauritanie), à Montreuil et Orléans (France). Le projet sera mis en oeuvre entre le 15 juillet 2012 et le 15 juillet 2013."

"Le Projet d’Appui au Renforcement des Actions pour le Dialogue Interculturel et Social (PARADIS) mené par le Groupe de Recherche et de réalisation pour le Développement Rural (GRDR) en Mauritanie et en France vise à promouvoir le dialogue interculturel et la citoyenneté entre les peuples du nord et du sud et à renforcer la solidarité économique entre les migrants et les acteurs des territoires d’origine. Il s’agira d’une part d’organiser un festival culturel au Gorgol à l’occasion duquel  chaque groupe socioculturel présentera  les valeurs ou spécificités faisant sa richesse. Une exposition photo sera réalisée à cette occasion afin d’être présentée en France à destination des migrants de la seconde génération et de la société civile en France. D’autre part, au delà de l’échange interculturel et de la promotion de la citoyenneté,, ce projet vise à mobiliser les migrants, à renforcer et à harmoniser leurs interventions citoyennes pour le développement de leur région d’origine. La constitution de l’espace d’échange sur les migrations dans le Gorgol durant le second semestre du projet permettra enfin de valoriser et de mettre en débat les enseignements tirés des activités interculturelles et citoyennes en France et de lancer dans la durée une dynamique d’échange « double espace » avec les acteurs clefs du développement et de la migration..
L'objectif spécifique du projet est de promouvoir le dialogue interculturel et la citoyenneté entre les peuples.
Le projet est mené en partenariat avec l’Association des Maires et Parlementaires du Gorgol (AMPG) en Mauritanie et le Réseau des Associations Mauritaniennes en Europe (RAME) du côté de la France.
Les principaux groupes cibles dans ce projet sont les associations de migrants et ressortissants de la région du Gorgol en France, les migrants de retour dans le Gorgol, les acteurs régionaux de développement dans le Gorgol, les associations cultuelles des jeunes du Gorgol.
Les activités principales se dérouleront à Kaédi (Gorgol/Mauritanie), à Montreuil et Orléans (France). Le projet sera mis en oeuvre entre le 15 juillet 2012 et le 15 juillet 2013."

The project “Spring of democracy” will take place between December 2012 and September 2013 and will have both local and international activities. The local activities consist of promoting the project and it’s activities; organizing a local mobile phone film competition and a public event for showing the films enrolled; and an event for the dissemination of the project’s results. The international activities consisting of an International Mobile Phone Short Film Festival, a study visit and a youth exchange that will take place in Göteborg, Sweden and Cairo/Alexandria, Egypt, in April 2012 respectively June 2013.

The project will bring together 48 youngsters who will learn about the concept and practice of democracy, human rights and youth participation through non-formal education methods. The aim of the project is to stimulate youngster to reflect upon the human rights driven society and use to empower them to become active citizens.

All the activities are designed having in mind the importance of intercultural learning as a way to foster tolerance and mutual understanding.

The project “Spring of democracy” will take place between December 2012 and September 2013 and will have both local and international activities. The local activities consist of promoting the project and it’s activities; organizing a local mobile phone film competition and a public event for showing the films enrolled; and an event for the dissemination of the project’s results. The international activities consisting of an International Mobile Phone Short Film Festival, a study visit and a youth exchange that will take place in Göteborg, Sweden and Cairo/Alexandria, Egypt, in April 2012 respectively June 2013.

The project will bring together 48 youngsters who will learn about the concept and practice of democracy, human rights and youth participation through non-formal education methods. The aim of the project is to stimulate youngster to reflect upon the human rights driven society and use to empower them to become active citizens.

All the activities are designed having in mind the importance of intercultural learning as a way to foster tolerance and mutual understanding.

“The 99% Remix - A Hip Hop Opera for Social Change” is an interdisciplinary art project, that brings together the entire range of youth cultural styles - such as Hip Hop, Video, Graffiti, and break dance - as a tool for the promotion of intercultural dialogue, community mobilization and participation. Main target groups are young migrants, refugees and other discriminated groups of our society. We also reach out for young social change activists, artists and or people that feel related to the objectives of the project.
In a first step the project reaches out to a multitude of young people and provides a series of local art workshops in cooperation with our partners in Israel and Germany.
In a second step, we invite the participants from both countries to come together one week in Germany and one week in Israel. During the encounters they will produce and perform an intercultural Hip Hop Opera, whose plot is based on their own personal stories. Within a highly heterogeneous group setting success is based on on dialogue, intercultural sensitivity, tolerance and respect.
We promote a positive social change through art and creativity, both within local communities and through joint activities between partner countries from both sides of the Mediterranean.

The project’s orientation is towards more youth specific activities and participatory practices. The immediate aim is the production of a multi
We play an active role in community mobilization as part of the protest movement for social change. According to our and our partner’s principles, we developed a strategy to mobilize those who are usually pushed to the margin of society disciplinary Rock-Opera, based on personal narratives of different cultural, social and ethnic backgrounds.
A further aim is to establish this program as a tool for sustainable activities between the partner countries from both sides of the Mediterraneanand make sure that these voices continue to be heard, within and beyond the region. We use art and media as powerful means to promote intercultural dialogue and diversity as a positive value for our society as a whole. We develop our project with young people on grass root level. Discovering their creativity, they are encouraged to participate in public life. Art and Culture often provide experimental fields, in which encrusted thinking can be broken. The power of creativity stimulates new initiatives and new approaches to human development.

“The 99% Remix - A Hip Hop Opera for Social Change” is an interdisciplinary art project, that brings together the entire range of youth cultural styles - such as Hip Hop, Video, Graffiti, and break dance - as a tool for the promotion of intercultural dialogue, community mobilization and participation. Main target groups are young migrants, refugees and other discriminated groups of our society. We also reach out for young social change activists, artists and or people that feel related to the objectives of the project.
In a first step the project reaches out to a multitude of young people and provides a series of local art workshops in cooperation with our partners in Israel and Germany.
In a second step, we invite the participants from both countries to come together one week in Germany and one week in Israel. During the encounters they will produce and perform an intercultural Hip Hop Opera, whose plot is based on their own personal stories. Within a highly heterogeneous group setting success is based on on dialogue, intercultural sensitivity, tolerance and respect.
We promote a positive social change through art and creativity, both within local communities and through joint activities between partner countries from both sides of the Mediterranean.

The project’s orientation is towards more youth specific activities and participatory practices. The immediate aim is the production of a multi
We play an active role in community mobilization as part of the protest movement for social change. According to our and our partner’s principles, we developed a strategy to mobilize those who are usually pushed to the margin of society disciplinary Rock-Opera, based on personal narratives of different cultural, social and ethnic backgrounds.
A further aim is to establish this program as a tool for sustainable activities between the partner countries from both sides of the Mediterraneanand make sure that these voices continue to be heard, within and beyond the region. We use art and media as powerful means to promote intercultural dialogue and diversity as a positive value for our society as a whole. We develop our project with young people on grass root level. Discovering their creativity, they are encouraged to participate in public life. Art and Culture often provide experimental fields, in which encrusted thinking can be broken. The power of creativity stimulates new initiatives and new approaches to human development.

The Circus Arts for Social Change Project raises the potential and visibility of intercultural understanding and cooperation in regions of Europe and the Mediterranean that suffer from prolonged cultural conflict. Their message is one that celebrates rather than hides the diversity of our countries, and enriches not only our participants and their communities, but also civil society at large.

A youth circus is a transformational social tool; non-verbal trust-building activity transcends colour, creed, race and religion, and the performance of this extraordinary bond is inspiring to performers and audiences alike. Circus Galilee and Circus Poehaa are youth circuses that have built a bi-national partnership based on mutual interest in promoting intercultural dialogue and cooperation. Circus Galilee is a rare example of Jewish-Arab collaboration in the Galilee of Israel, a region plagued by mutual separation and misunderstanding. Circus Poehaa is a Dutch youth circus that embraces the Netherlands’ multicultural society.

For more info about the project, please visit:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/475811929108255/?fref=ts

The Circus Arts for Social Change Project raises the potential and visibility of intercultural understanding and cooperation in regions of Europe and the Mediterranean that suffer from prolonged cultural conflict. Their message is one that celebrates rather than hides the diversity of our countries, and enriches not only our participants and their communities, but also civil society at large.

A youth circus is a transformational social tool; non-verbal trust-building activity transcends colour, creed, race and religion, and the performance of this extraordinary bond is inspiring to performers and audiences alike. Circus Galilee and Circus Poehaa are youth circuses that have built a bi-national partnership based on mutual interest in promoting intercultural dialogue and cooperation. Circus Galilee is a rare example of Jewish-Arab collaboration in the Galilee of Israel, a region plagued by mutual separation and misunderstanding. Circus Poehaa is a Dutch youth circus that embraces the Netherlands’ multicultural society.

For more info about the project, please visit:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/475811929108255/?fref=ts

Believing in the role of art and artists in social development of the region, “Training in the Street” project seeks to fill this gap between artists and people in order to encourage more participation and freedom of expression across the Euro Med region. Through the establishment of training workshops with a part of the training between artists and people in the street, the project formulates and drafts an artistic experience to be presented in interactive ways and social artistic event in Streets.

“Training in street” is searching for freedom in the streets and works on brining the artists out of the closed venues to the open spaces, where they can perform, present their talents for people and exchange views. It tries to inspire and encourage a meaningful engagement with real-world issues in public spaces all over the region. The workshops and the trainings raises the skills of the artists, while emphaisisng on the role of art in change and civil participation.

For more info about the project, please visit: http://elmadinaarts.com/en/training-in-the-street/third-edition

Believing in the role of art and artists in social development of the region, “Training in the Street” project seeks to fill this gap between artists and people in order to encourage more participation and freedom of expression across the Euro Med region. Through the establishment of training workshops with a part of the training between artists and people in the street, the project formulates and drafts an artistic experience to be presented in interactive ways and social artistic event in Streets.

“Training in street” is searching for freedom in the streets and works on brining the artists out of the closed venues to the open spaces, where they can perform, present their talents for people and exchange views. It tries to inspire and encourage a meaningful engagement with real-world issues in public spaces all over the region. The workshops and the trainings raises the skills of the artists, while emphaisisng on the role of art in change and civil participation.

For more info about the project, please visit: http://elmadinaarts.com/en/training-in-the-street/third-edition

The project is developed by the Ratiu Center for Democracy in partnership with Windows – Channels for Communication, under the ALF promoted value of Dialogue between Cultures. It is designed to offer a framework of transnational youth cooperation for people who live in Euro-Med communities, where multi-culturalism is a need and a value that we seek to promote through a piliot program between Romania, Palestine and Israel.
The program incorporates 24 participants from these three places and 7 staff members of the 2 partner organizations. Together, the partners organize four events during which they engage in dialogue on the challenges of and solutions for successful multicultural communities. The dialogue leads to on-going cooperation, through a web-based channel of communication, where youth research and design programs which model multi-cultural values. The project thus promotes cooperation leading to social and cultural diversity at local, regional and global levels. The project benefits the participants, their communities and the Euro-Med region through the development of a sustainable framework of transnational cooperation and community activism. The project benefits the participants, directly, but also their communities, by setting a sustainable framework which can be undertook to develop partnerships with other youth organizations around the Euro-Med region.

To promote intercultural dialogue between youth in Euro-Med countries by utilizing diversity as a tool for cohesion and cooperation within the framework of a youth-designed model of transnational learning and activism, which engages local communities in fostering pluralistic and inclusive democracies.

• Promoted intercultural dialogue as a means to share methods for spreading democratic values, for promoting diversity and multi-culturalism and for enabling social development between Romanian and Palestinian/Israeli youth and educators.
• Youth designed web-based channel of communication, as a way to cooperatively plan community activities in Romania, Israel and Palestine.
• Youth led organized community outreach through an event designed by participants throughout their exchange and working sessions.
• Developed sustainable model for youth-led learning and activism utilizing values of diversity and multiculturalism, creative means of education and social media and technology to overcome physical frontiers in a pursuit of personal and social development.

The project is developed by the Ratiu Center for Democracy in partnership with Windows – Channels for Communication, under the ALF promoted value of Dialogue between Cultures. It is designed to offer a framework of transnational youth cooperation for people who live in Euro-Med communities, where multi-culturalism is a need and a value that we seek to promote through a piliot program between Romania, Palestine and Israel.
The program incorporates 24 participants from these three places and 7 staff members of the 2 partner organizations. Together, the partners organize four events during which they engage in dialogue on the challenges of and solutions for successful multicultural communities. The dialogue leads to on-going cooperation, through a web-based channel of communication, where youth research and design programs which model multi-cultural values. The project thus promotes cooperation leading to social and cultural diversity at local, regional and global levels. The project benefits the participants, their communities and the Euro-Med region through the development of a sustainable framework of transnational cooperation and community activism. The project benefits the participants, directly, but also their communities, by setting a sustainable framework which can be undertook to develop partnerships with other youth organizations around the Euro-Med region.

To promote intercultural dialogue between youth in Euro-Med countries by utilizing diversity as a tool for cohesion and cooperation within the framework of a youth-designed model of transnational learning and activism, which engages local communities in fostering pluralistic and inclusive democracies.

• Promoted intercultural dialogue as a means to share methods for spreading democratic values, for promoting diversity and multi-culturalism and for enabling social development between Romanian and Palestinian/Israeli youth and educators.
• Youth designed web-based channel of communication, as a way to cooperatively plan community activities in Romania, Israel and Palestine.
• Youth led organized community outreach through an event designed by participants throughout their exchange and working sessions.
• Developed sustainable model for youth-led learning and activism utilizing values of diversity and multiculturalism, creative means of education and social media and technology to overcome physical frontiers in a pursuit of personal and social development.

Amel House of Human Rights, Amel Association’s Human Rights Program (hereinafter AHHR), launched in 2012 a video advocacy initiative aimed at producing, publishing and disseminating online videos on human rights, development and democracy in Lebanon and the Middle East.
For this purpose, AHHR partnered with the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (hereinafter HCLU) in a project entitled “Video Advocacy Action V-A-A”. The HCLU has had significant video advocacy experience since 2007, and will afford, as part of this project, video advocacy training to human rights NGOs in Lebanon. The training will be followed by a coaching phase, led by AHHR, during which all participating organizations will produce films related to their work, laying the foundation of a network of organizations sharing resources on a sustainable video advocacy platform. HCLU will evaluate the produced films and provide feedback, and the project will be concluded with a study visit for several trainees from the project to HCLU in Hungary.
The Video Advocacy Action V-A-A aims at identifying dozens of producers or contributors from a variety of organizations defending human rights and promoting democratic values. A coordination team and a single video publishing platform and an online channel, RightsCast.net, in which all stakeholder organizations can publish, was established.

The project, Video Advocacy Action V-A-A, aims to establish a collective of NGOs in Lebanon cooperating and sharing resources to sustainably produce, publish and disseminate Internet film which promotes human rights, development and democracy in Lebanon, and on the longer term in the MENA region.

Amel House of Human Rights, Amel Association’s Human Rights Program (hereinafter AHHR), launched in 2012 a video advocacy initiative aimed at producing, publishing and disseminating online videos on human rights, development and democracy in Lebanon and the Middle East.
For this purpose, AHHR partnered with the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (hereinafter HCLU) in a project entitled “Video Advocacy Action V-A-A”. The HCLU has had significant video advocacy experience since 2007, and will afford, as part of this project, video advocacy training to human rights NGOs in Lebanon. The training will be followed by a coaching phase, led by AHHR, during which all participating organizations will produce films related to their work, laying the foundation of a network of organizations sharing resources on a sustainable video advocacy platform. HCLU will evaluate the produced films and provide feedback, and the project will be concluded with a study visit for several trainees from the project to HCLU in Hungary.
The Video Advocacy Action V-A-A aims at identifying dozens of producers or contributors from a variety of organizations defending human rights and promoting democratic values. A coordination team and a single video publishing platform and an online channel, RightsCast.net, in which all stakeholder organizations can publish, was established.

The project, Video Advocacy Action V-A-A, aims to establish a collective of NGOs in Lebanon cooperating and sharing resources to sustainably produce, publish and disseminate Internet film which promotes human rights, development and democracy in Lebanon, and on the longer term in the MENA region.

Voyages du Geste 7 - “Looking for a Spring” is a project building on a 12-year partnership within the “Voyages du Geste” network and consisting of a 16-day interdisciplinary residency to build the artistic and human capacities of 20 young performance artists from 5 Euro-Mediterranean countries. The residency will be held in Lebanon and will be jointly run by trainers from the partner associations, in a multicultural and non academic context. Participants and trainers will engage in a common reflection around the theme “Looking for a Spring”, raising questions such as: What is Revolution? What is Rebirth? What is Democracy? etc.
In the beginning, the trainers will engage in a 1-week exchange to discuss methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches to be integrated in the residency, then hold an organizational meeting to finalize the preparations. During the residency, the artists will attend training workshops in different Performing Arts disciplines (Alexander technique, voice, storytelling, puppets, movement, etc.) to create scenes around the proposed theme. At the end of the project, a trilingual book about the 6 previous residencies and other “Voyages du Geste” projects will be published to share this collaborative model and the experiences gained from it with a wider audience.

Contribute to increasing the employment rate of young performance artists in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
Build the capacities of young performance artists from 5 Euro-Mediterranean countries within a multicultural and interdisciplinary context.

Voyages du Geste 7 - “Looking for a Spring” is a project building on a 12-year partnership within the “Voyages du Geste” network and consisting of a 16-day interdisciplinary residency to build the artistic and human capacities of 20 young performance artists from 5 Euro-Mediterranean countries. The residency will be held in Lebanon and will be jointly run by trainers from the partner associations, in a multicultural and non academic context. Participants and trainers will engage in a common reflection around the theme “Looking for a Spring”, raising questions such as: What is Revolution? What is Rebirth? What is Democracy? etc.
In the beginning, the trainers will engage in a 1-week exchange to discuss methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches to be integrated in the residency, then hold an organizational meeting to finalize the preparations. During the residency, the artists will attend training workshops in different Performing Arts disciplines (Alexander technique, voice, storytelling, puppets, movement, etc.) to create scenes around the proposed theme. At the end of the project, a trilingual book about the 6 previous residencies and other “Voyages du Geste” projects will be published to share this collaborative model and the experiences gained from it with a wider audience.

Contribute to increasing the employment rate of young performance artists in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
Build the capacities of young performance artists from 5 Euro-Mediterranean countries within a multicultural and interdisciplinary context.

The main aim of project “Youth e-collaboration in intercultural dialogue” is to develop an innovative set of multimedia online games covering the intercultural dialogue aspects what are suitable for youth workers and youth trainers. Project fist activity will seven day training course “Intercultural dialogue and e-games” in Amman, Jordan. During training course participants will develop concept for two e-games. After training course concepts of games will be developed and tested in 15 focus groups. After testing will be made final versions of games and translated in project partner languages – Arabic, Spanish and Latvian. Next project activity will be project partner meeting in Riga, Latvia with aim to develop electronic manual “How to use e-games as a tool in youth work”.
In project will participate five partner organizations - form Jordan, Latvia, Palestine, Egypt and Spain. Project target audience is youth in age 15 till 20 years old.

The main aim of project “Youth e-collaboration in intercultural dialogue” is to develop an innovative set of multimedia online games covering the intercultural dialogue aspects what are suitable for youth workers and youth trainers.

• To organize training course “Intercultural dialogue and e-games” for 15 participants form all partner countries in Jordan;
• To organize 15 focus groups in order to test e-games;
• To develop 2 e-games exploring the topics of intercultural dialogue suitable for training of young people;
• To develop new tools and manual - “How to use e-games in youth work” (organized partner meeting in Latvia);
• To promote the cooperation between European and Middle East youth organizations and youth centers working in the sphere of non-formal youth training by using social media;
• To increase youth education and discussions about intercultural dialogue topics by using e-games

The main aim of project “Youth e-collaboration in intercultural dialogue” is to develop an innovative set of multimedia online games covering the intercultural dialogue aspects what are suitable for youth workers and youth trainers. Project fist activity will seven day training course “Intercultural dialogue and e-games” in Amman, Jordan. During training course participants will develop concept for two e-games. After training course concepts of games will be developed and tested in 15 focus groups. After testing will be made final versions of games and translated in project partner languages – Arabic, Spanish and Latvian. Next project activity will be project partner meeting in Riga, Latvia with aim to develop electronic manual “How to use e-games as a tool in youth work”.
In project will participate five partner organizations - form Jordan, Latvia, Palestine, Egypt and Spain. Project target audience is youth in age 15 till 20 years old.

The main aim of project “Youth e-collaboration in intercultural dialogue” is to develop an innovative set of multimedia online games covering the intercultural dialogue aspects what are suitable for youth workers and youth trainers.

• To organize training course “Intercultural dialogue and e-games” for 15 participants form all partner countries in Jordan;
• To organize 15 focus groups in order to test e-games;
• To develop 2 e-games exploring the topics of intercultural dialogue suitable for training of young people;
• To develop new tools and manual - “How to use e-games in youth work” (organized partner meeting in Latvia);
• To promote the cooperation between European and Middle East youth organizations and youth centers working in the sphere of non-formal youth training by using social media;
• To increase youth education and discussions about intercultural dialogue topics by using e-games

The project, Going ahead with Euro-Med” – Intercultural Training Seminar for Teachers involved in Student Exchanges, is lead by the City of Munich Department of Education, Teacher Development Centre. It aims at promoting intercultural awareness and competence for teachers who are actively involved in international youth exchange between schools in the Euro–Mediterranean region. Exchanges of this nature require a very special sensitivity as to the individual cultures, religious backgrounds and ways of interaction. They are a challenge both to teachers and students faced with different, often unknown ways of life and mostly very different family structures. Teachers who are involved in school exchanges are generally required to be familiar with various intercultural aspects. However, a busy schedule at school and the extra time needed to make sure the logistics of an exchange are working, often neglect the fact that very careful preparation and thought also needs to be given to all the aspects of intercultural communication and learning. A training seminar will be held, based on experience with teacher development seminars for Munich teachers on intercultural learning but now focusing on a very direct and immediate interaction between teachers from Germany, Jordan, Spain, Croatia, Israel. Knowledge about tools and methods to secure a successful youth exchange will be the main content of the seminar. Moreover, a seminar between educators of these countries will certainly create an atmosphere of mutual respect and tolerance, of new forms of cooperation and last not least a vision of a dialogue between cultures that needs to be promoted continuously in our educational institutions. The project will take place in Munich, Germany and will be implemented between 15/10/2012 and 15/07/2013.

The project, Going ahead with Euro-Med” – Intercultural Training Seminar for Teachers involved in Student Exchanges, is lead by the City of Munich Department of Education, Teacher Development Centre. It aims at promoting intercultural awareness and competence for teachers who are actively involved in international youth exchange between schools in the Euro–Mediterranean region. Exchanges of this nature require a very special sensitivity as to the individual cultures, religious backgrounds and ways of interaction. They are a challenge both to teachers and students faced with different, often unknown ways of life and mostly very different family structures. Teachers who are involved in school exchanges are generally required to be familiar with various intercultural aspects. However, a busy schedule at school and the extra time needed to make sure the logistics of an exchange are working, often neglect the fact that very careful preparation and thought also needs to be given to all the aspects of intercultural communication and learning. A training seminar will be held, based on experience with teacher development seminars for Munich teachers on intercultural learning but now focusing on a very direct and immediate interaction between teachers from Germany, Jordan, Spain, Croatia, Israel. Knowledge about tools and methods to secure a successful youth exchange will be the main content of the seminar. Moreover, a seminar between educators of these countries will certainly create an atmosphere of mutual respect and tolerance, of new forms of cooperation and last not least a vision of a dialogue between cultures that needs to be promoted continuously in our educational institutions. The project will take place in Munich, Germany and will be implemented between 15/10/2012 and 15/07/2013.