Programme
Italo-German youth meeting
Weimar, 19. - 24. February 2017
Topic: Human Rights/ Refugees, Asylum and Migration
Sunday, 19.02. / arrival
11:05 arrival at Berlin Schönefeld airport
12:00 transfer to Berlin city centre by train, storing luggage at Berlin main station, lunch snack (individual at Berlin main station food court, paid by students themselves)
13:30 walk around Berlin city centre
18:00 dinner snack (individual at Berlin main station food court, paid by students themselves), picking up luggage
19:27 transfer to Weimar by train
22:05 arrival in Weimar, welcome, check-in
Monday, 20.02. / discovering Weimar as a city of German art, 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, Weimar Republic, 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 rally of Weimar
12:00 lunch
13:30 guided tours in 3 parallel groups at Bauhaus University Campus / Bauhaus model house Haus am Horn/ Bauhaus Museum
15:00 city 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) Weimar Republic 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
Tuesday, 21.02. / 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
13:10 Walk 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
16:15 transfer back to the city (Bus 6 to Goetheplatz, runs at 16.25)
18:00 feedback on the day
19:00 dinner
Wednesday, 22.02. / human rights in Italy and Germany today: meeting German pupils
07:30 breakfast
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
09:30 workshops on the topic of human rights today in Germany, Italy and Europe
12:15 lunch
13:30 workshops on the topic of refugees and asylum
15:00 conclusion
15:30 Italo-German Coffee-Tea break
19:00 dinner
Thursday, 23.03. / human rights in Italy and Germany today: meeting German pupils
07:30 breakfast
08:30 morning warm-up (refugee chair)
10:00 workshops on the topic of refugees and asylum
12:00 lunch
13:00 Final round/ presentations exchange of experiences – What can I do?
14:00 Free time for Weimar
19:00 dinner
21:00 Italo-German farewell party
Friday, 24.02. Berlin
08:00 breakfast
08:45 check out
09:15 evaluation of the seminar, handing out of certificates
11:15 walk to Weimar main station
11:51 transfer to Berlin by train
15:16 scheduled arrival at Berlin airport
18:35 flight back to Rome