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Internationales Bildungs- und Begegnungswerk in Dortmund

The ewoca³ summer of 2016 commences!

From France to Siberia: 15 international workcamps in eleven countries! A grand European youth project will start into its 2016 action phase: More than 300 youths from 17 countries will travel to 15 international workcamps, in order to realise social and sustainable projects. Taking part are youth groups from nine cities in North Rhine-Westphalia, but […]

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Article: International youth work for everyone!

In the current issue of the journal “Europäische Erziehung”, ewoca³ project officer Katharina Teiting writes about the funding programmes ewoca³ and ewoca³(+). How do the ewoca³ partnerships work? How is funding and financing organised in this major project of European youth cooperation ? How do the programmes and the project partners put the goal into practice to reach young […]

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Apply now and take part in the German-Turkish youth exchange Dortmund-Muğla

Apply now and take part in the German-Turkish youth exchange Dortmund-Muğla

Where are young people volunteering in Dortmund? What is their incentive for working in sports associations, environmental groups, the voluntary fire brigade or in social projects? And what is this like in Turkey?Youths from Dortmund and the Turkish city of Muğla will together explore these questions during two youth encounters in August and October of […]

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IBB e.V. is planning an open round of talks on supporting refugees as part of the „KOMM-AN“ NRW programme

The International Association for Education and Exchange (IBB e.V.) is planning a series of five talks targeting volunteers in refugee support in Dortmund for the second half of 2016. The new further education programme on culturally sensibility for volunteers takes the name „Fokus F“ and is based on the experiences of IBB in its seminar […]

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IBB e.V. at the Day of Practice of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Münster

On Wednesday, the 29th of June 2016, Hildegard Azimi-Boedecker, section manager for Job international and Migration at the International Association for Education and Exchange, will speak at the Day of Practice and Research at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster. Together with Wolfram Buttschardt of Diakonie Michaelshoven in Cologne, she will […]

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Projekt DoKuMente deals with the topic of trauma for refugees

Mental health has many facets. This is especially true for refugees, who react very differently to the experiences during their flight. The participants of the first edition of the DoKuMente project deal with the psychological pressures of migrants in one of their final educational sessions. Earlier they intensively dealt with the countries of origin, with […]

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In Memoriam to Mirjam Ohringer

Mirjam Ohringer from Amsterdam died in the night of the 29th of May 2016. For more than 30 years she accompanied the work of IBB as a contemporary witness like no other. We first met her on one of our very first exploratory tours in 1986. Countless times, in Amsterdam and also in Dortmund and […]

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„Nordstadt Life“ reports on the youth network Dortmund-Muğla

„Nordstadt Life“ reports on the youth network Dortmund-Muğla

An in-depth report on the newest German-Turkish youth encounter in August 2015 is featured in the magazine „Nordstadt Life“. On four pages, the project is comprehensively covered. The International Association for Education and Exchange (IBB e.V.) in Dortmund is praised for the great organisation. An interview then gives the participants a voice: Neslihan and Ziya […]

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