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Multilateral Conference on Youth Exchange between Germany, Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt

08 – 11 December 2017
Tunis, Tunisia

A project of IJAB as part of the German-Tunisian, German-Moroccan and German-Egyptian Transformation Partnership

International youth exchange supports the development of civil society and and democratic structures. It enables new perspectives and better understanding of each other. Young people get new insights, gain self-confidence and develop their personality through international youth exchange.
Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, youth exchanges between North Africa and Germany in the frame of the transformation partnership program have strongly developed. A network of partners came into existence who met for the first time in a conference organised by IJAB in Bonn/Germany on “The effect of international youth exchanges on the development of democracy and civil society”.
Two years after the first conference in Bonn, a second meeting is going to take place. Made possible by financial support from the German Federal Foreign Office, a Conference on Networking and Dialogue will be held in Tunis from 8 – 11 December 2017.
The aims of this second conference are to bring together all active organizations and stakeholders for exchange and networking, to deepen the dialogue and to widen and strengthen this network of partners in youth exchange. The conference shall provide a forum for

• the acquisition of new impulses for the youth exchange
• the dialogue on good practice
• new contacts
• new project ideas
• a discussion on a common apprehension of democracy
• the promotion of a participatory and democratic approach in youth exchanges and with
• civil society organizations
• the identification of new challenges
• the promotion of civic engagement
• the empowerment of civic youth structures

During the conference, a team of journalists and junior journalists will report from the ground.

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