Non-Governmental Organization

The Federation for Social Defence (German: Bund für Soziale Verteidigung, BSV) is an independent, non-governmental organisation based in Minden, Germany, that unites people and organisations of pacifist and antimilitarist conviction. The BSV was founded in 1989 as an umbrella organisation to promote social defence and other alternatives to the military, and to work for total disarmament. Its creation was the result of a big conference on social or civilian-based defence held in Minden, Germany, a year earlier. Currently, we actively support civil rights groups in Belarus and Ukraine, are engaged in advocacy work to promote the concept of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping (UCP), and seek to counter the militarization of youth in (German) schools through peace education.

The Anne Frank centre in Berlin is a partner organisation of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Its main focus is to promote across Germany the memory of Anne Frank and her famous diary. The activities of the Anne Frank Zentrum seek to strengthen the values of freedom, equality and democracy and combat Antisemitism, racism and discrimination. The Anne Frank Zentrum displays the exhibition »Anne Frank. here & now« in Berlin and coordinates travelling exhibition projects throughout Germany. It develops proposals that serve to explore the causes and consequences of the Holocaust and it also offers special one-day events, seminars and opportunities for continuing education. The pedagogical programs developed by the Zentrum are especially aimed at young people, who are encouraged to become more active citizens, more aware of their societal responsibilities and also to learn to make the most of their freedom to participate in society.

Creative workshop "A Step Into Growth" (NGO) is founded in 1995 in the town of Valjevo (Serbia, ex-YU). Our main aim is to stimulate and help develop various potentials and skills of pre-school (P/S) and school (S) children (with problems and without problems in psychomotor development), adolescents and grown-ups , the re-socialization of children and adolescents and their reintegration into the social and natural environments, optimization of communication of grown-ups in their family or professional environments with the help of a group of experts (psychologists, lawyers, a special pedagogue, a teacher of English, artists, musicians, an art history teacher, a PE teacher, a psychiatrist...).

Activities mentioned so far referred to the rights of the children passing through normal psycho-motor development who enjoy the rights to supplementary education, to the special education for the children with special needs, to the right of children to a supplementary health care, to the right of children to play and integrate into the social environment and the right of children to take part in social activities of the locality.

planning of development projects

SMART encourages efficiency of non-profit sector and intersectoral cooperation and promotes volunteering. In its work SMART combines non-formal eduation with consulting, informing and influencing public policies. SMART cooperates with civil society organisations, pubic instituions, local and regional self-government and civil initiatives.

“artifact” is a center for sustainable development and global learning in Glücksburg on the Baltic Sea. The project “solivol” offer young German adults between 18 and 28 years the possibility to learn within the scope of the developing-political voluntary service “weltwärts” and to work for a year at partner organizations in countries of East Africa. The aim of the program is the acquisition of intercultural competence and knowledge of sustainable development and local like global solution strategies on subjects like climate protection and energy production. Beside “solivol” “artefact” offers a wide range of learning offers on lastingness subjects in the German Danish border space.

education to fair trade, internacional justice and world economy