German-US-American Youth Exchanges - USA Special 2022

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Foreword

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1. German-US-American Youth Exchanges

Tri-city youth worker exchange: Chicago-Hamburg- Birmingham

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Gabriele Scholz, State Youth Welfare Office in the Office for Families, Hamburg Social Security Authorities Forty years of youth exchanges with the US Axel Wiese, DAG Wilhelmshaven-Friesland

German-US-American Youth Exchanges

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U.S. Embassy in Berlin

2. Civic Education

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Civic Education as a Centerpiece of Transatlantic Exchange

5. Workcamps

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Association of German Educational Organizations (AdB) Ambassadors in Sneakers – A Young Leaders’ Transatlantic Summer Academy on Human Rights  Anna Steinbrich and Felix Weinmann, German American Institute Tuebingen (d. a. i.) Strengthening youth civic engagement in the USA and Germany Interview with Robert Fenstermacher American Council on Germany With YouthBridge from Munich to New York

Kolping Jugendgemeinschaftsdienste Workcamps in the US Annette Fuchs with Andy Gracklauer and Friederike Knörzer, Kolping JGD

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6. School exchange

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“School exchanges with the US have a long tradition”

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Anna Wasielewski, AJA – Arbeitskreis gemeinnütziger Jugendaustausch Intercultural exchange and new perspectives for young people and host families 47 Conversation with Bettina Wiedmann, Experiment e. V., and Rüdiger Muermann, Partnership International e. V.

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Eva Haller and Daniela Greiber, European Janusz Korczak Academy

3. Youth in the US

Growing up in New York and Berlin: transatlantic street work with the BronxBerlinConnection  22

Interview with Olad Aden of Gangway Berlin Youth work and human rights projects in the Pine Ridge Reservation  Michael Koch, former employee of the Offenbach Youth Culture Office “We have eight years left, so let’s go!” Interview with activist Katharina Maier about Fridays for Future in the US

Imprint

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