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FIS - Fairtrade Initiative Saarbrücken

FIS - Fairtrade Initiative Saarbrücken
c/o Peter Weichardt / Heike Zimmermann

Schumannstrasse 34
66111 Saarbrücken
Germany

Telephone
+49 6893 801855
E-Mail
info[at]faires-saarbruecken.de
Description of the Organization

FAIR for all generations FAIR education - Our campaigns are aimed at schools, kindergartens and day-care centres (Kitas), extracurricular actors in the greater Saarbrücken area and Saarland University. Several "Fair Kitas", "Fairtrade Schools" and "Fairtrade Universities" from the greater Saarbrücken area have already been awarded. School classes and courses from the Saarbrücken region have already received the award "Fair School Class - Fair Trade Class" more than 100 times. Through our young "Fair Trade Ambassadors" as multipliers and through our wide-ranging commitment, we reach a broad public. The guiding principle of our network is Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).

Partner countries

Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom

Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom

Karl-Marx-Straße 2
14482 Potsdam
Brandenburg
Germany

Telephone
+49 30 22012634
E-Mail
service[at]freiheit.org
Description of the Organization

The Friedrich Naumann Foundation is the foundation for liberal politics. At home, political education is the most important task; abroad, the foundation promotes international political dialogue. Another focus is the promotion of talented young people.

Themes of the organization

MRZ - Human Rights Center at the University of Potsdam

MRZ - Human Rights Center at the University of Potsdam
Universität Potsdam

August-Bebel-Straße 89
14482 Potsdam
Germany

Telephone
+49 331 977-3450
E-Mail
mrz[at]rz.uni-potsdam.de
Description of the Organization

The Human Rights Center (MRZ) mainly focuses on the collection, editing and archiving of legal materials in order to make them available to legal professionals. The MRZ is the first institution of its kind in the Federal Republic of Germany. It works in close cooperation with the European Council and the departments of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Justice that are responsible for human rights. It also collaborates with other institutions focusing on human rights in Germany and in other countries represented in the European Council.

Another major objective of the Center is to establish a specialized library for the use of Center's researchers and students from Berlin and Potsdam, as well as outside researchers and government representatives. In addition, the MRZ publishes scientific papers treating human rights issues from the perspectives of international law, European Community Law and national law.

Themes of the organization

Friedenskreis Halle e. V.

Friedenskreis Halle e. V.

Große Klausstraße 11
06108 Halle (Saale)
Germany

Telephone
+49 345 279807-10
E-Mail
info[at]friedenskreis-halle.de
Description of the Organization

The experience of the peaceful "Wende" in 1989 awakened in many people the hope that a Germany without a military could be possible. This hope led people from various civil initiatives in Halle together to found the Friedenskreis in 1990. The Friedenskreis Halle e.V. is an group of people of differing world views, religions, nationalities and political affiliations. We see peace not as a state of being or as a distant goal, and not simply as the absence of war. Peace is for us a means to a common, just and non-violent life together in diversity, where the personal development and liberty of the individual is made possible. The conception of this life together is always a new experience. This is why we try to explore, find and pass on new ways of doing so, while never forgetting to question the same. We are consequently involved in education, peace-associated activities and in projects for civil conflict resolution on both the domestic and international levels. Our work is made possible by paid and voluntary staff and carried through donations and public subsidies. Our current programme and projects

  • Seminars and educational programmes in the areas of communication, conflict resolution, mediation, dealing with violence and learning how to speak out
  • Consulting for initiatives and projects
  • Lectures and seminars on current peace-associated themes
  • Civil conflict resolution through the development of an educational and encounter centre in Jajce, Bosnia.
  • Work camps, youth encounters and volunteer work in the countries of the Balkans.
  • Counselling on military service and conscientious objection
  • Cooperation in activities and campaigns against militarisation
  • Coordination of the initiative "Zivilcourage: Bündnis für Gewaltlosigkeit, Demokratie und Toleranz in Halle"

ESE - Ethnology in schools and adult education

ESE - Ethnology in schools and adult education

Studtstraße 21
48149 Münster
Germany

Telephone
+49 251 8327318
E-Mail
info[at]ese-web.de
Description of the Organization

Shaping diversity with intercultural competence - this is the principle of the association Ethnologie in Schule und Erwachsenenbildung (ESE) e.V. (Ethnology in Schools and Adult Education), which was founded in 1992 by ethnologists and educators.

The basis for ESE's work is the scientific examination of approaches to teaching intercultural competence, intercultural education and intercultural upbringing, as well as the processing of ethnological material in order to be able to convey scientifically sound information about other cultures and about mechanisms of intercultural understanding in a way that is understandable to lay people.

With our offer in adult education, we address all people who have contact with people from different cultures in their everyday life and work and who would like more background information and competence to act.

In children's and youth education, we offer intercultural and global learning for different subject areas. Our units are suitable for project days, holiday programmes or short teaching units.