Description
The project promotes political education and media literacy and aims to foster youth empowerment and participation. We strengthen local initiatives and build a trans-local network of trainers. The team is based in Berlin and Kyiv.
Project area
Political education
Project goals and focus
The project aims to promote media literacy and knowledge of democracy, human rights, and civil society through (digital) political education measures. The target group is young people and students from Ukraine. The project strives to strengthen local initiatives, international networks of educators, and partnerships for non-formal education in the long term.
What does the project include
Online courses, podcasts, study trips, webinars & training, public events, articles
Citizen+ Website
Timeline
The main topics in 2022-2023 are Ukrainian history and cultures of remembrance. The team produces a video series and podcast on Ukrainian history in Ukrainian and English and publishes lectures and other digital educational content. All materials are available for free on the website citizen-plus.com.
A study trip to Berlin deals with cultures of remembrance in Germany and Ukraine - during the war and in exile. A webinar series invites Ukrainian historians and writers to talk about Ukrainian history to an international audience. Cooperation events deal with Ukrainian activists’ participation and memory work in exile, practices for newcomers, and the Jewish community in Berlin.
In 2021, the project focuses on conspiracy theories and disinformation. An online course on udemy.com and a podcast in Ukrainian and Russian are produced. The winners of an essay competition are invited to a study trip to Berlin. The participants meet civil society activists and local media, learn about conspiracy theories, fact-checking and hate speech, and visit political and cultural institutions.
The project is commonly realised with the NGO NEED, which creates multimedia educational projects for Ukrainians and about Ukrainians.
The project is funded by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany in the framework of the Eastern Partnership program.
