Georgia for the first time has elected a woman as head of state – Georgian youth in the framework of the U-18 also elects!
14.000 children and young people – twice as many as in 2017 – cast their votes in the elections, which turned out to be possible in the framework of the DRA project “Move on together!”.
On 2-9 December the DRA organized a study trip to Berlin and Brandenburg on the issue “Modern educational spaces in youth education inside and outside of schools” for 14 teachers and heads of educational institutions from Moscow. The participants visited schools, kindergartens, universities and organizations.
November 19-20 as part of DRA-Project “INKuLtur” in Ekaterinburg took place the first seminar „Arrangement of inclusive structures in cultural institutions“. The objective of the seminar is to develop an idea of possibilities for implementation, realization and advent of the iclusive projects and programs in cultural institutions.
On the 26/27 November in Berlin took place the seminar “In Search of Lost Universalism” of the Moscow School for Civil Education. There was a panel with Barbara von Freytag (Prague Civil Society Center), Elena Zhemkova (Memorial, Moscow), Stefan Melle (DRA, Berlin), Ambassador O’Donnell (Dublin) under the Motto “The future is Now”.
On November 22-23, a conference was held in Sofia to prepare further work on “Transition Dialogue” – a cooperation between Sofia Platform and DRA with the support of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb).
What does “inclusion” mean in museums, how are cultural workers and volunteers trained to work with people with disabilities, how can a general understanding of “inclusion” and “accessibility” be achieved? These and other issues were discussed by employees of museums, cultural organizations and projects at the round table “Inclusive practices in museums”.
The capital of Kyrgyzstan has a serious problem with air pollution, especially caused by polluting urban traffic. What exactly environmental organisations can and should do with who, when and how – this was the subject of two meetings between DRA and the Kyrgyz environmental organization MoveGreen – МувГрин.
A Russian human rights activist and employee of Amnesty International Russia, with whom DRA has been cooperating for many years, last week, while on an investigative mission in the North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, was kidnapped, tortured and seriously injured by unknown persons during a staged execution.
This question was the main focus of the workshop the DRA organized together with its Bulgarian partner organization “Sofia Platform” with the support of the Federal Agency of Civic Education of Germany on September 24th at the Luisenbad Library in Berlin.
Successful completion of the educational program for men in the field of prevention and public relations aimed against domestic violence, caused by military actions.
