Programme (14.11.2016)

Italo-German youth meeting

Weimar, 06. - 11. March 2017

Topic: Human Rights/ Refugees, Asylum and Migration

Included: Going to the theatre or concert hall at one of the evenings (the precise date cannot be indicated here since the concert programmes for March are not published yet)

Monday, 06.03. / arrival

11:05arrival at Berlin Schönefeld airport

12:00transfer to Weimar by bus

16:30arrival in Weimar, welcome, check-in

18:00dinner

Tuesday, 07.03. / discovering Weimar as a city of Germanart, culture, history and humanism

08:00 breakfast

09:00 morning warm-up (interactive games designed at: waking-up, group interaction, acquiring basic language skills in German)

09:30 getting to know Weimar: Why is Weimar an important city for German common memory? (German Classics, WeimarRepublic, Hitler's favourite city, Weimar-Buchenwald concentration camp, GDR regime) How is it linked to the topic of Human Rights?

10:30 Introduction to the topic auf Bauhaus in Weimar

12:00 splitting the group up into mixed smaller groups and handing out of tasks for the city rallyofWeimar

12:00 lunch

13:30guided toursin 3 parallel groups at Bauhaus University Campus / Bauhaus model house Haus am Horn/ Bauhaus Museum

15:00city rally of Weimar: participants discover the city themselves solving tasks in the city and discovering places, they have to take photos and bring back information on topics linked to Weimar, taking interviews on the topic of Human Rights:

(1) German classics writers and philosophers in Weimar (Goethe, Schiller, Herder, Wieland)

(2) WeimarRepublic 1918-1933

(3) architectural movement and designers in Weimar of the BAUHAUS

(4) national socialism in Weimar

(5) socialism in Weimar: remains of the GDR

(6) art, culture, personalities in Weimar (J.S. Bach, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Schweitzer, ...)

18:00 presentation of the city rally findings

19:00 dinner

Wednesday, 08.03. / discovering Weimar as a city of national-socialism, barbarism and human rights’ violations

08:00 breakfast

09:00 morning warm-up (interactive games designed at: waking-up, group interaction, acquiring basic language skills in German)

09:30 preparation of the visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial site, introduction into national-socialist ideology

12:30 lunch

13:10Walk to bus station Goetheplatz (Bus 6 to Buchenwald, runs at 13.45)

14:15 human rights abuse: visit of the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial site near Weimar: guided tour, persecution of political opponents, Jews, gays, Roma, foreigners etc. by the Nazi regime

16:15transfer back to the city (Bus 6 to Goetheplatz, runs at 16.25)

18:00feedback on the day

19:00 dinner

Thursday, 09.03. /human rights in Italy and Germany today: meeting German pupils

07:30breakfast

08:30 morning warm-up (interactive games designed at: waking-up, group interaction, acquiring basic language skills in German)/ Getting to know each other, Italian and German pupils meeting

09:30workshops on the topic of human rights today in Germany, Italy and Europe

12:15lunch

13:30workshops on the topic of refugees and asylum

15:00conclusion

15:30Italo-German Coffee-Tea break

19:00dinner

Friday, 10.03. / human rights in Italy and Germanytoday:meeting German pupils

07:30 breakfast

08:30morning warm-up (refugee chair)

10:00 workshops on the topic of refugees and asylum

12:00lunch

13:00evaluation and results

14:00 free time for Weimar

22:00Italo-German farewell party

Saturday, 11.03. Berlin

08:00breakfast

08:45check out

09:15 bus to Berlin

10:00 visit to Berlincity centre

16:00 transfer to Berlin airport

18:35flight back to Rome