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White Rose
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

White Rose is a youth exchange of three international partners: Slovenia, France and Germany. It will explore a civil initiative of citizens in the political and civic life and pluralism in the mass media as some of the tools of democracy and human rights. German partner operates with two facilities. One of those facilities changed the address to White Rose, which was a civil movement against the Nazi regime during the WWII in Germany. They wish to celebrate this by making a youth exchange which will promote civil initiatives and active participation all over EU.Objectives of the project are: 1) Participants will learn about the examples of the civil initiatives or civil resistance movements in the last century that made difference by doing research about their history in the preparatory phase and about the experiences in other countries through the debates during the youth exchange. 2) Participants will produce their own statements on the human rights, which will base on the statements from the past to learn what has been learnt in the last 80 years and put them in the Newsletter and on the social media (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram). Participants will learn how to use the social media to express their positive statements. 3) Participants will prepare the theatre performance which will be presented right before the debate with the politicians which will allow them to express the feelings or some stories of human rights violation or successful civil initiatives.4) Participants will have a debate with local German decision maker about the human rights, diversity and tolerance. This is an exercise of the in the structural dialogue young people should have with the local decision makers as the representatives of the policy makers as the Youth Strategy promotes it.Youth exchange will happen between 13.12. and 22.12.2016 in Oldenburg. Partners agreed to form groups with 10 participants and 2 leaders.We will use different methodology to work:1) Debate on the democracy and different civil initiatives in each country. We will learn more about the methods of civil initiatives like writing newsletters, exhibitions, debates, underground theatres etc. We will also arrange debates and experiential exercises on the current human right violation affaires and will form a pro et contra situations for participants to learn how to understand the opposite opinion. In the evening session we make an interactive presentation of the Erasmus + programme.2) Open Library, where we invite between 6 and 8 people who belong to different social groups and have personally faced human right violation. Participants circle from one to the other as they please and listen to their stories and are able to ask anything. 3) Theatre methods and work on the strengthening the group as well as feeling the human rights violation and democracy through the theatre. Afterwards all participants will be divided to the working/production groups according to their interest and national group decision. 4) Photography group to make photographs for the Instagram, Facebook and Newsletters. They will learn different basic techniques such as light and compositions make a lot of practices while documenting other groups work. The result of their work will be at least 6 photographs for the social media (Instagram), which will capture the topic and few photographs for the Newsletter.5) Social media group to learn about the positive use of the social media as a new mass media. Participants will learn how to form positive and politically correct statements. They will create a # catch phrase and statements for the Facebook and Twitter account. They will also prepare the article for the local newspaper.6) Newsletter group to learn the how to make a longer texts (2xA4) and to address also older people. They will use old statements from the White Rose newsletter and compare it to Charlie Hebdo communication. They will also learn how to make old statement more fashionable. They will translate the texts in all participating languages so they can distribute it upon the return.7) Structural dialogue to learn how to express the word and how to talk to the local decision maker. The group will work on the topic, learning their public performance and try their pro et contra methods. The result will be debate with the local politicians.8) Theatre group to learn how to express the feelings, to show human rights, initiatives, responsibilities of the EU citizenship etc. There will be short performance made right before the public debate.
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