DC4JOBS Final Conference
As part of an international project DC4JOBS (Digital Competences for Jobs), we organised a one-day Conference: “Digital Youth Work 3.0. Competences for the Labor market of Tomorrow."
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BUILDING BRIDGES PODCAST: Episode 1
The first episode of Building Bridges Podcast is now available for listeners! This week Duarte Lacerda had an interview with Markus Rebitschek - an experienced youth worker, founder of CGE Culture Goes Europe, now team member of Europäische Jugendbildungs- und Jugendbegegnungsstätte Weimar. The interview turned out to be an engaging conversation, during which Markus told us how he started as youth project organiser, what inspires him, about the choices he...
Global warming: Local perspective from Erfurt – Panel Discussion Report
The issue of global climate change is perceived as something that affects the whole planet, but is quite often overlooked when it comes to its impact on a particular area. This can make us underestimate the specific effects that it has on our city, region, and hence - lead to believe that it is something that happens far away and that input of every single person and community efforts won't influence anything. We wanted to bring more attention to it.
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LABIRINT – 1st Training Course on Outdoor Education
From the 17th to the 24th of April, CGE and 18 participants, from 9 other countries, came together in a training course to better understand how and in what ways the youth workers are able to use Outdoor Activities in their practice. Do you want to know how it was?
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Stadt Im Dialog 3: Study Visit
In the context of "growth of urban activism in small Russian cities through P2P learning" the "Stadt im Dialog 3" project just had its second activity carried out: a visit to some of Germany's best examples on community-based initiatives tackling urban improvement. A group of 12 Russian urban activists had the chance to experience these projects and listen the stories directly from the experts. (more…)...
Staring at Goats – Kick-off meeting in Weimar
As is the good custom between friends and colleagues, some things are best discussed in person. Thus, the project consortium of the Europe for Citizens – Remembrance project “Staring at Goats – Propaganda, Scapegoating and the Other 1918-2018” met last week in historic Weimar to share their visions and ideas how to best plan, frame and implement the project’s 13 events and campaign in the five partner countries. (more…)
Europe Quiz in Ilmenau
Last week CGE was one of the participants in Ilmenau University's ErstiWoche activity. Our volunteers presented CGE's activities and opportunities and tested the new students' knowledge about Europe and its culture with a quiz. Do you want to try it out? (more…)
Sustainability Matters! Local actions and projects in Thuringia
On the 1st June 2018, during the ‘‘Sustainable Month‘‘, CGE Erfurt e.V. was taking part as the organizer and facilitator of a panel discussion consisting of local experts on the topic of sustainable community and grassroots initiative. The panelists talked about their local actions and projects in encouraging and creating urban community in Thuringia. (more…)...
In the heart of Dragon Gorge
May is a month full of long weekends and sunny weather. It literally provoked our team to go on exploration tour in the wildest areas of Thuringia. If you were always curious, where the fantastic beasts are living... CGE knows the answer. (more…)...
EVS Blog: Skiing in Schmiedefeld
The 24th of February was marked red in our calendars: that weekend day was picked for a one-day-trip to the Winterwelt Schmiedefeld, a regional winter sport resort. So, on that cold Saturday morning our small group of ten, consisting of CGE staff members, students from the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy and European volunteers from Erfurt based EVS host organisations (Alice from the Naturfreundejugend Thüringen, Antoine from the Thuringian state chan
