Topic: Human Rights/ Refugees, Asylum and Migration
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