Deadline: 17-Sep-23
The Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ Foundation) is accepting applications for the YOUNG PEOPLE remember program.
The program enables young people to enter into a critical examination of history. Transnational learning at historical sites of National Socialist persecution and extermination and also matters of European culture(s) of remembrance are at the center of the program.
The YOUNG PEOPLE remember program the EVZ Foundation, together with the Federal Foreign Office, promotes international, civic educational work and allows young people to engage in a critical examination of history. The focus is on transnational learning at historical sites of National Socialist persecution and extermination, as well as questions relating to European culture(s) of remembrance.
The funding line [re]act finding memories focuses on bilateral and multilateral youth encounters for young people between 14 and 35 years of age, as well as professional exchanges for disseminators. They support projects that deal with National Socialist history in a multi-perspective, transnational, and interdisciplinary way using contemporary methods as well as groundbreaking concepts.
Which are the formats they are funding?
- Bilateral and multilateral encounters for adolescents and young adults at historical sites of National Socialist persecution and extermination in Europe over a period of several days. The target group consists of school students, students, apprentices, young professionals, etc. between the ages of 14 and 35.
- Bilateral and multilateral exchanges for disseminators to develop offerings and to develop interdisciplinary concepts for international youth encounters in memorial sites or at historical sites of National Socialist persecution and extermination in Europe. The target groups are teachers involved in all types of schools, university teaching staff, professionals involved in extracurricular youth work, employees of museums and memorial sites, NGOs, scientists, artists, activists, and representatives of the subsequent generations.
They fund projects that
- develop, test and implement contemporary and innovative formats for education at historical sites with analog, hybrid and/or digital elements (e.g. encounters and seminars, summer schools, work camps, study trips, and work in small national and international groups),
- create and open up activating, self-efficacy oriented and creative educational approaches as well as references to everyday life for a critical examination of National Socialism and the Holocaust,
- provide space for a transnational and interdisciplinary critical examination with different narratives of the culture of remembrance and remembrance policy in Europe and Israel and for a multi-perspective critical examination with approaches to civic education,
- involve the target group in a participatory way and design a participant-oriented program,
- address heterogeneous target groups and in particular reach young people, who have so far been underrepresented in the activities of international youth work and civic education,
- implement international cooperation on an equal footing.
Funding Information
- The funding amount is a minimum of EUR 20,000 and a maximum of EUR 50,000.
- The project duration is up to 9 months, the earliest start date being January 15, 2024. The project period will end no later than November 30, 2024.
What needs to be considered from the organizational point of view?
- The youth encounters and professional exchanges may take place digitally, hybrid or analog. A combination of digital, hybrid or analog formats is also possible.
- The youth encounters and professional exchanges will last at least 4 days per encounter; the arrival and departure count as half days.
- They fund equal, partnership-based international collaborations between at least two sponsors. Trilateral and multilateral partnerships are desirable.
- The following are eligible to apply. Non-profit organizations and institutions, public or private, from all European countries or from Israel that are active in formal and non-formal education and have experience working on the history of National Socialism and/or international youth work.
- At least one German organization will be involved in each project, either as the applicant or as a cooperation partner. Cooperations between different project sponsors must be clearly identifiable in the project cost plan.
- They fund material and personnel costs, and projects can bring in their own and third-party funds.
- Within the YOUNG PEOPLE remember funding program there will be events for qualification and networking, which they invite all funded projects to participate in. Please plan for suitable capacity when planning the project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Funding is provided for memorial sites, educational institutions and NGOs in Germany, Europe and Israel.
What is not eligible for funding?
- Projects without reference to a historical site
- Projects without a German partner
- Projects that have already started
- Commercial projects
- Projects in which the participants come from just one country
- Project ideas that have already received a funding commitment from another federal institution
- Encounters that do not involve project work (for example visiting programs, lecture visits, congresses, aid transports or humanitarian aid).
For more information, visit EVZ Foundation.