Our fields of work
School workshops
Children and youth studying in secondary and high school as well
as trainees are here.
In our seminars for pupils, young people learn
much about themselves and about their schoolmates: What impression do
I make on other people? How
can we resolve a conflict? How can I handle my money?
And: What makes a good life?
We provide the youth with free space, so that they can
speak about themes important for them: love and
friendship, belief and religion,
war and violence, unemployment, career and life
plans.
National and international youth from different
types of schools and groups meet in our house. That is what is important
to us.
Meeting reduces
prejudices. 
Religious education
What do you believe in? – This question is more than a question about God and belonging to a religion. What gives life sense? What is worth living for?
Youth look for and need guidelines on the market of world views.
They can speak about that to each other here – regardless of the variety
of their background, culture and religion.
A respectful approach to each other can be learned and tested.
We would like to encourage friendly living together for people
with various religious communities in the immigrant society
in Germany.
International workshops with young people with less abilities
Our international bi- and multilateral youth seminars are held with the target group "young people with less abilities". We offer the teenagers the possibility of participating in subsidised, international meetings to collect positive experience in an intercultural community and to develop their own visions of the future in a mixed international group.
In the sessions, the main focus is not only on debating about interesting themes but also on sightseeing and cultural experience. Sport activities are deployed alongside creative methods. Our goal is to eliminate fear of new challenges and of "the unknown or the other". In the past years, many participants of multilateral seminars took part in bilateral youth exchanges and prepared themselves for a bigger workshop, sometimes abroad. Recent key themes for participants have been: professional training, job and future perspective within the EU, discrimination in a united Europe, living in an intercultural society, homeland - Europe, right-wing extremism and violence, the European voluntary Service as a chance to learn within Europe.
Our partners are organisations for youth social work
and youth help, secondary schools, neighbourhood
centres and centres for vocational
training in Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Poland, Bosnia
and Spain - with some of them we have been working for many years,
some relationships are just
being developed. We perceive ourselves as being a continuously
growing network.
Bilateral meetings are always held in Germany
and shortly afterward in a guest country. Multilateral
workshops are prepared together
with all partner organisations and take place every year
in another partner
country.
Participation in international workshops can open to
the youth an opportunity to experience a European
Voluntary Service in one of our partner organisations.
Europe for all
"The world is open to everybody?!" Youth without higher educational achievement mostly have no access to the market of voluntary services abroad. Frequently the project already fails in the individual research for information. The main idea of the European Voluntary Service, though, is to give young people with less abilities a chance to work voluntarily abroad without any charge for the volunteer.
We offer, in particular, a chance for this target group from Germany to work on a social, ecological or cultural project abroad and to live there (e.g. in our partner organisations in Belgium, Finland, Italy, Ireland, Poland).
We organise, accompany and support the young people before, during and after the stay. We co-operate with long-term national and international partners, who have our highest confidence for this work and whom we have been working with in the field of national and international seminars for a long time. Our network is open for new partner organisations working with young people with fewer opportunities!
We also offer EVS - places in Germany - especially in the region Bonn and Cologne - and support the young people from our partner organisations and the German projects to realise a European Voluntary Service. International understanding very practically and very effectively.
Training sessions for European volunteers
We are one of five supporting educational organisations in Germany offering, on behalf of the German National Agency, accompanying educational workshops for European volunteers as well as training’s for tutors.
For German youth, we offer pre-departure and follow-up workshops. European youth obtain with us on-arrival training sessions and a mid-term-meeting after the first half of their European voluntary Service in Germany.
During the workshop, the volunteers deal, e.g., with
intercultural learning, with their own projects,
and with themes related to German and
European politics. So that Europe obtains a face
for the youth.
Rope course and Climbing wall: Didactic adventure between Heaven and Earth
Important capabilities such as the ability to work in
a team, self-reliant action, and the ability to deal with conflict can
be well
supported with an offer of the rope course. To
climb to a dizzying height, to survive troubles together with others,
to prove one's courage and to
break limits: Active learning in the rope course
and on the climbing wall attracts the young as well as adults. Anybody
can contribute to problem
solution.
Qualified instructors take care of the program,
which is tailored to the target group.
We educate instructors according to the ERCA-Standard
(Europe Ropes Course Association).