Project results of the summer camp: Learning from the Past for Peace & Sustainability

During the summer camp 2017, 31 participants from Serbia, Russia, Belarus,

Kurdistan/Turkey, Malawi and Germany spent three days divided into three

groups dealing with issues of social and tolerance, education and

sustainability. On the third day they developed their own ideas, which they

wanted to implement at home after the camp. A large part of the projects have

already been realized. Have a look what happened!

After the presentation of the results, you can find some inside-thoughts and

our 1x1 of project-management.

Working Group

Social & Tolerance

Grodno/Belarus

Intercultural student meeting

It has been more 2 months since our

Summercamp at Steyerberg. Time

really flies! The Camp gave me an

amazing possibility to meet so many

wonderful and intelligent people from

different countries, about which I had

known not much. Cultural meetings,

various activities, helping each other -

having got acquainted with unique

cultures of these people I had a huge

inspiration and improved my

communication skills ;that was very

important. I saw how much work we

are to do and directions to go in here,

in Belarus. I was part of Social

society/tolerance group, and the aim of

the project we developed was on the

one hand, to make life and study of

international students in Belarus better

and more comfortable.

On the other hand, to put Belarussian

students in touch with them - in one

word, to promote intercultural ex-

change. ESN (our local student organi-

zation in Grodno, which deals with

international students and helps them

to accustom in new surroundings)

helped us to realize this project. We

called it ''Welcome party '', and it was

exciting and fun.

There were students from India,

Bangladesh , Sri Lanka, China,

Germany, France, Azerbaijan, Côte

d'Ivoire, Iran and Belarus, of course).

We tried to create a cozy,friendly

atmosphere through dances ,games,

singing, chatting and interviewing each

other - and i think we managed to do it

. We had been just strangers for each

other. But we met at this party - and we

became as one. Hope we have made

the world a little better and some of

students have made real friends.

Diyarbakir/Kurdistan

Women-Rights

The situation of women is still difficult in Turkey. The government is gradually reversing the women's rights gained. We want to use this project to inform women about their rights, especially young women intending to marry soon. We want to educate them about their rights so they can make clear to their spouse, before their marriage, what their rights are. We wanted to conduct these workshops in cooperation with women's rights groups in Diyarbakir. Most of them were closed after the attempted coup. Therefore, it was not easy to find cooperation partners. But we found a lawyer who helped us. The first workshop took place and we will continue. I am a student of law and for me it was a great experience. I will continue this kind of projects.

Hannover/Germany

Integration of refugees We started to invite young refugees

into our organization and discussed

different ideas what to do together. A

lot happened afterwards.

Every Monday we do have an open

evening to meet, talk, to play games

together. In October we went together

to the football-stadium and into a

“Escape Room”. Once a month we are

cooking together, afterwards we are

watching a movie. That way we got to

know already movies from the Middle

East.

In January we spent together one

weekend in the mountains, went Ice-

Skating together.

Kragujevac/Serba

Puppet Theater about Non-

Violent Communication /

Tolerance

We bought puppets with the budget and we will also use them for further projects. Every puppet we bought represents a different character, and the main one is a bear, which always like to be in the center of attention. He doesn't like when someone doesn't agree with him. On the other side he is pure hearten. Also there is a rabbit, who is always criticizing the bear, the owl likes the bear in the beginning, the cat is like a teacher, who is ignoring when kids are fighting. The elephant was new in the classroom and got discriminated because he comes from a different environment. Kids were invited to join and to act any character besides the bear to find the solution for the problem performed in the play. It was important, that the kids where participating actively. It was the method of forum-theater. The participants liked it very much. They were competing which one will be the next performing, in good meaning of course. The first participating group was already experienced because they are members of the drama club of their school, so they were really interested

and open for performing and

communication. We will continue going

our schools with this program.

Working Group

How do we want to

learn

Diyarbakir/Kurdistan

Independent Academy Dilan Kanay and I participated in the

youth exchange program -Summer

Camp, held in Germany on 4-16

August in 2017 on behalf of Youth and

Change Association Diyarbakır Turkey.

During the Camp, we had the

opportunity to visit a Free School. As a

result of this visit, we came up with the

idea of implementing a small example

of a Free School in our local

community.

Indeed we planned to prepare an

English course for a month (20

lessons). In Germany we planned the

methodology and schedule.

In Diyarbakır, we started our first

lesson on the 20th of September 2017

and finished the last one on the 26th of

October 2017 in total we lectured 20

lessons. Our students’ English level

was A 2. Participation into the lessons

were based on volunteering for

students and the teachers and

everything was planned according to

the student`sdemand. That was the

innovative way. For example up to the

interests of the participants we played

a lot of roleplays during the lectors. A

part of it was to evaluate with the

participants the lessons and to improve

them step by step.

11 students were chosen among the

volunteers of the association.

Introducing oneself and being able to

speak in English about a movie was

the target of our project.

English course (beginners) • 20

th of September

• presentation

• introducing

• dialogues

• numbers (0/100)

•

• 26th of September

• countries

• nationalities

• subjects

• present simple

• questions and answers

• 28th of September

• jobs

• negative sentences

• English songs

• 3rd

of October

• possessive

• verb to have

• family

• alphabet

• 5th of October

• dialogues

• sport

• I like/I don’t like

• 10th of October

• time

• this/that

• space adverbs

• describing a room

• 17th of October

• informal lesson outdoors

• 19th of October

• time (what time is it?)

• description of daily routine

• verbs (infinitive and past simple)

• 24th of October

• past simple (regular and irregular

verbs)

• writing stories

• 26th of October

• future (will)

• writing stories

We continued …

After the successful English course we

continued. Now we regularly offer

workshops on different topics. We call

our series of events "Free Youth

Academy". Everybody can participate

for free. The advertising goes from

mouth to mouth.

Reading book activities: Students talk

about the book which they read every

week.

Seminar about migrant`s, refugees and

immigration.

Workshops about Phenomenology and

Existentialism

An informational meeting about

'UNESCO and SUR' (Old Town of

Diyarbakir) was held on by

Archaeologist Nevin Soyukaya for the

volunteers of our association.

Minsk/Belarus

During the summer-camp in Germany

we got to know a lot of methods of

non-formal education. We understood

how good it is to create the learning in

a funny and interactive way.

We got to know this old chinse phrase:

What you see, you can perhaps

keep in mind

What you see and hear, you usually

keep in mind

What you say, you probably keep

in mind

What you do, you understand

We got to know also the methods of

JANUN connected to the important

issue of climate change. We also

started to run this kind of workshops in

schools. For us as students who will

become later on teacher it is a great

experience.

“Our” pupils experienced for example

what ways of transportation are more

or less environmental friendly and how

far you can get if you go by train, bus,

car or airplane and you can just use

one Gramm of CO2 !

Working Group

Sustainability and

Environmental

Protection

While different projects were

developed in the other two groups, the

sustainability group decided on a

common method: Puppet-Theater.

However, the individual groups have

each developed their own focus, to

which they then each have developed

a piece.

Kragujevac/Serbia

"Eco Puppet Show"

got created during the international

exchange-program and aims to

present in a creative and interesting

way the attitude of the vast majority of

our population towards the environ-

ment. The play is so designed that

from the beginning to the end actors

create a problem, define it, solve and

send a strong message to the viewers,

the children.

In addition to the formal education and

environmental education that children

have in schools, we believe that it is

extremely important that ecological

problems - solutions are presented in

an informal manner. So the idea is, to

include fun, the raising of awareness

and to send a message to the young

people. We performed the first Eco

Puppet show in front of our dear

friends from "SOŠO Vukašin

Marković", a school for pupils with

special needs.

We did the performance so far in two schools for two groups. We are planning to do more and to make the story even more complex. Also new volunteers have new ideas.

Our next step is to continue this activity (with new volunteers) who just came to our organization. So they will continue this project cuz it is a really nice activity and not so many people did something like this in Serbia in general, really good! :)

Change life – not the climate The Serbian participants also got to know this method during the camp and took it home. Change life – not the climate. This workshop we conducted at university in the faculty of ecology and in a secondary school. The workshop with the boxes who illustrate the impact of different food-stuff on the climate, is interesting for us and also for many students.

We also added a bit more in this workshop (to update it) and discussed about food and how much the industrial way of the producing actually creates more problems than for example organic farming. We explained what permaculture is, what is a mono-culture and why it is not

good to have the agriculture based on monocultures etc.

In all projects, we add different activities so we enjoyed it a lot and our students as well.

Joschkar Ola / Russia

Puppet Theatre for Ecology

Aim of the project

The aim of the project is to raise

awareness about gestures that people

can do in their every-day lives in order

to protect the nature and maintain their

environment clean. We believe that

each person is responsible and has a

role to play in the safeguard of their

environment. However, because of

history and the political system, the

situation in Yoshkar-Ola is such that

most people do not take responsibility

for this. On the contrary, they reject it

onto the system, the politicians or the

administration of the city, and criticize

them for their apparent inaction. Our

goal is to bring the citizens to realize

that they can be the own actors of

change in their environment. Our main

target group is young children, for they

are not yet formatted by the thought

system of the older generations but

they repeat the gestures of their

models. By showing them the right

gestures, they can then influence their

families and friends, and create a new

generation of citizens more

responsible.

Activities

We want to create the puppets and

write short scenarios inspired by the

everyday life of the children and their

urban environment. Then, we want to

show the scenes in different schools of

the city/Republic. The scenes will be

interactive: the young audience can tell

the puppets what to do to better the

situation. If the children cannot find the

answers, the actors will help them in

their decision. The performance shall

be followed by a small discussion to

analyze what they have learned, and

also for the actors to understand how

the make the show more interesting

and efficient.

We also intend to film some of the best

performances, so that they can be

uploaded on social media and spread

to a bigger number of persons.

Material

We intend to create puppets and

decorations entirely with recycled

materials, found in the garbage of the

city, so that we can demonstrate that

garbage can be reused (which is one

of the messages that we want to

convey).

Calendar

• November-December 2017:

constitution of the group of

actors and volunteers: writing of

the scenarios and creation of

the decoration and puppets;

contact with schools;

• January-March 2018:

performances in the schools

• April 2018: second contact with

the schools (questionnaires);

final evaluation of the activities

Hannover & Malawi

Part of the German group during the

camp was also Joseph Kenson Sakala

from Malawi, who is doing a voluntary

service through “Brot für die Welt” for

one year at JANUN e.V. in Hannover.

Together with him, the German

participants from the sustainability

group developed the idea for a tree

planting campaign, which is to be

realized in Malawi. The point is that as

many children as possible plant a tree

in Malawi. So that they also

understand what the trees are

important for, a puppet theater play is

currently being developed, which

should then be performed before the

planting of the trees. As part of the

summer camp, a project group has

been formed, which takes care of the

finished development of the piece, the

dolls and donations, so that this project

can be realized from August 2018,

when Joseph returns to Malawi after

his year at JANUN.

Joseph visiting villages in Malawi

Belarus

Puppet- Theater “First steps for

nature”

The goal of the project is to teach basic

knowledge about a more ecological

lifestyle and what everybody can do in

daily life threw puppet- theatre.

The idea is to show the performance in

kindergartens, elementary-schools and

children activity places for groups of

20-30 children, in the age from 5 - 7

years old with the following main goals:

Understanding that every

human step on the Earth can be

dangerous for some alive

organism;

we as human beings are strong,

but we are only part of nature

and we can’t live without nature

everybody can do something, to

protect the nature

The scenario is nearly done. We had some help from a professional puppet-theater-performancer, who is now part of this project. Now we are looking for some funding, because we are looking forward to a bigger project and to visit a lot of institutions, that for we cannot just do this project voluntarily. The Swedish Embassy got interested in funding this project. Now we are waiting for the answer. These wonderful drawings are giving an

idea how the puppets will look like.

They will be done in a professional way.

The project in short

From 4 to 16 August 2017, 30 active

young volunteers from Turkey,

Belarus, Serbia, Russia and Germany

met in Steyerberg, Lower Saxony, and

finally in Hannover. After studying the

exploitation of forced laborers in the

Nazi armaments industry, they got

acquainted with a community project

devoted to social, cultural and

environmental issues established in

the old buildings of a forced labor

camp. On the basis of the discussion

on the history of the Nazis and the

experienced community project, the

participants divided into three thematic

groups.

Each group was dealing with an

important issue, which also plays a role

in the visited community project. The

topics where: education,

environmentally friendly lifestyle and

social coexistence & tolerance. The

participants exchanged ideas and

experiences regarding these topics,

developed common ideas and

positions, and completed a small

Project-concept.

Most of them were realized in their own

country following the exchange. The

projects implemented got documented

in order to sensitize and motivate

others for the themes, ideas and

methods themselves to hopefully

become active.

In particular, the following

two findings were important

to the participants:

"It is not normal that young people

from five different countries are able

to meet, to live together and to work

together for a better world, getting

to know each other and becoming

friends."

This insight came to the participants in

particular during the visit to the former

Nazi weapons factory, where

thousands of forced laborers, including

from the former Soviet Union and

Serbia, were enslaved to produce

ammunition, with which people for

example in the Soviet Union and

Serbia were also murdered. Not far

away from this place, we, 30 young

people from Russia, Belarus, Serbia,

Turkey, Germany and also our guest

from Malawi, have spent days together

to engage in a more peaceful, tolerant

and environmentally friendly world.

"We are responsible for making the

world a better place and this is

possible"

72 years ago, the great-grandfathers of

the German participants were at war

with Serbia, the Soviet Union. 72 years

ago, ammunition was still being

produced in the gigantic Nazi factory to

kill "enemies." Now we as great-

grandchildren are becoming friends.

From a part of the forced labor

camp, the Lebensgarten has

become a life project in which

people try to live in harmony with

each other and with nature.

http://lebensgarten.de/

The knowledge of the participants

from these experiences:

A Change is possible.

Nothing has to stay like it is.

You can be the change – you need to

be the change!

This realization and the exchange

about it among participants was very

motivating and inspiring for all of us.

Many people, especially in Turkey,

Russia, Belarus and also Serbia are

demotivated and disillusioned by life,

without hope that something can

change for the better. Therefore, it was

a strong desire of the participants to

give others courage and to spread

confidence.

The participants also wanted to share

with others the project ideas that they

themselves had developed (which they

were very proud of) and the reports on

the projects realized by the

participants.

From the workshop contents and the

experiences made it was the wish of

the participants to produce and publish

a short handout, which as includes a 1

x 1 of project-management skills to

give a guidance and assistance in a

very short time. This handout is

included in this documentation. And it

comes now!

How to organize a

project?

The workshop started with the following

question:

Who of you organized already a

project?

Most participants did not.

Some participants where not sure if they

organized already one.

What exactly is a project was a question.

The second question was:

Who of you organized already a

birthday-party?

Everybody did.

Feedback by the workshop-leader

O.K. I see, everybody of you organized

already a project.

Because, a birthday-party is also a project!

Let´s brainstorm: What is important if

you want to organize a birthday-party?

Collection – what do you need?

A place for the party

Food and drinks / money

The day

Guests

An Invitation

Music

Motto?

Support by people who are willing to help you

Informing neighbors (if it is going to be loud)

Knowing about the Laws and rules

Next step was to bring the collection in a

time-line, what comes first, what comes

next while planning your party?

Finally we decided the following order

1. Guests

2. Motto

3. Laws and Rules

4. Place

5. Time

6. Informing neighbors

7. Support by people

8. Food and Drinks / Money

9. Music

10. Invitation

Why this order?

Guests: What guests would I like to invite

to my party? How many guests do I

expect?

Motto: What kind of party my guests

would enjoy? What kind of party I would

enjoy?

Laws and Rules: Is it allowed for my

guests to drink alcohol, does the time of

the party fit to the age of my guests? Can

we play loud music at night without

disturbing neighbors?

Place: What place fits to the motto and the

number of people that I would like to invite.

Do I have to pay for the place and if so, do

I have the money for it? Who could be

disturbed during my party? Is the location

easily to reach by my guests? Are any

rules connected to the place and are they

important for the party?

Time: What time fits to my guests? What

day and also the time of the day? Does

something else happen that day that could

be a kind of concurrence to my party.

Informing the neighbors: Probably it will

be loud and could disturb neighbors. Not

much disturbs a party more than an angry

neighbor who comes over. Inform your

neighbors in time and ask for their

understanding and tolerance. Give them a

mobile-number to call you in any case, or

even better, invite them to your party.

Support by people: You can´t do

everything just on your own. At least if you

try to do everything on your own during

your party, you will not enjoy your own

party because of being too busy. Ask

friends, family members to help, give them

specific tasks they feel good with (DJ,

Barkeeper, Taking care of dishes …)

Food & Drinks or Money

Do I have the money to buy drinks and

food? Will I prepare the food by myself or

will I ask the participants to bring food and

drinks? Do I want to have alcohol on my

party? What food and drinks do fit to my

guests, their expectations or the motto of

my party?

Music

Do I need music on my party? If so what

kind of music? Do I want the people to

dance? Shall they just meet and talk –

what music would be the best for this

reason? Do I have the music and the

needed technic for that?

Invitation & Timing

How do I want to invite your guests, by

calling them, sending an email or an

invitation by regular post? Do you expect

an answer of them and if so, until what

day?

What is the best timing to invite them,

short in before or longer time in advance?

If you expect guests from far away they

should know it long before.

What information do your guests need to

have in before? Should they bring

something along?

What kind of expectations and emotions

do I want to transport through my

invitation?

All this steps you can also transfer to

most other projects.

Try it out!

Useful links

http://www.smead.com/hot-

topics/project-management-plan-

1371.asp

http://www.smead.com/hot-topics/project-management-plan-1371.asp

http://www.cio.com/article/2389129/project-management/7-must-have-project-management-skills-for-it-pros.html

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/31979/10-1257-guidelines-for-managing-projects.pdf

ERASMUS+ PROGRAMME:

Giving a chance to young people

and youth workers for an

international experience

Erasmus + is the EU‘s new programme

for boosting skills and employability

through education, training, youth, and

sport. Between 2014-2020 the

programme will provide opportunities

for over 4 million Europeans to study,

to participate in youth-exchanges, to

gain work experience and to volunteer

abroad.

What does it involve?

Funding for youth activities under

Erasmus+ aims to improve the key

competences, skills and employability

of young people, promote young

people‘s social inclusion and well-

being, and foster improvements in

youth work and youth policy at local,

national and international level.

Concretely in the field of youth, the

Erasmus+ programme offers three

main opportunities:

Key Action 1:

Mobility opportunities for young people

and youth workers. Young people have

the opportunity to participate in youth-

exchanges or to volunteer for a period

up to one year in another country.

Youth workers can take part in training

and networking activities abroad or

spend some time in a youth

organisation abroad for a job

shadowing or an observation period.

Key Action 2:

Opportunities for cooperation for

innovation and exchange of good

practices. Organisations can apply for

funding to work in partnership with

organisations from other participating

countries. The projects funded under

this action will focus on sharing,

developing and transferring innovative

practices in education, training and

youth provision between participating

countries.

Key Action 3:

Opportunities to support policy reform.

The Erasmus+ programme will fund

strategic activities supporting policy

reform across the EU. Funding

opportunities in the field of youth under

this action can take the form of

meetings between young people and

decision makers.

Who can take part?

Various opportunities are available

under Erasmus+, including

opportunities for young people (aged

13-30), youth organisations, and other

stakeholders

active in the field of youth.

Find out more under:

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasm

us-plus/index_en.htm

This youth-exchange was financed by

the European Union – Programme

Participating organizations:

Genclik ve Degisim Dernegi

www.genclikvedegisim.org

OPORA

www.opora-russia.ru

Eko Fun Kamp

www.ekofunkamp.com

Association "Education for

Sustainable Development"

www.agendaschools.net

JANUN e.V.

www.janun-hannover.de

Contact for further info & feedback:

JANUN e.V.

Fröbelstr. 5, 30451 Hannover

Tel. 0511-5909190

buero@janun-hannover.de