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The annual TRIYOU Forum, organized by the German-Polish Youth Office (GPYO) and Krzyzowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe, took place on March 11-14, 2024. The Forum was held in partnership with the Bredbeck educational institution and the NGO "Tolerance in You" and is part of the "LIKHTAR / Ліхтар" networking project.

Guests of honor at the Forum were the Consul General of Ukraine in Wroclaw Mr. Yurii Tokar and the Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in Wroclaw Ms. Kerstin Nielsen, who welcomed participants and attendees from Ukraine, Germany and Poland.

The TRIYOU Forum is an annual event for those working with young people and organizing trilateral international youth meetings.

Over the course of four days, participants and attendees from the three countries were able to deepen their knowledge and exchange experiences in the field of youth work. The event aimed to discuss a number of important topics related to the current situation of young people living in Ukraine, Poland and Germany.

Read more: Summary of Forum TRIYOU 2024

We wish you peaceful, hopeful and serene Easter holidays, spent among family and friends.

Board and Staff of the Krzyzowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe

Read more: Easter 2024

During the "Skills for future" exchange, young people from Hungary, Germany and Poland developed their skills, digging into the secrets of acrobatics, sculpture and culinary. Participants from the Youth Sociotherapy Center No. 2 in Wroclaw, IB Mitte in Ebersbach and the NENESZ oganization from Pecel, Hungary, met to get to know peers from other countries in an unusual environment, share their culture, get to know each other and develop passions together.

Read more: Youth exchange "Skills for future" from Hungary, Germany and Poland, 12-16.02.2024

The "Triyou" trilateral meeting Krzepice-Marl-Dnipro took place in Krzyżowa on February 19th-23rd, 2024, as a new edition of a long lasting partnership between the three schools. There were meeting a group of 20 students from the Willy Brandt Gesamtschule in Marl, 20 students from the School complex in Krzepice (Zespół Szkół w Krzepicach), and 24 Students from the Ukrainian school "Steam" from Dnipro.
The topic of this exchange was intercultural cooperation and historical/political education. Besides from different activities to learn to know each other and language animation, the students were encouraged to cooperated while solving different team challenges. They were challengend by building the hihghest spagetti tower or a paper bridge and finally by constructing an object to make it possible to let an egg fall from the balcony of our Pałac without breaking it. As a standard in Krzyzowa, they discovered the history of the resistance group Kreisau Circle and the reconciliation mass that lead to the creation of the youth center. Dring this years excurions, the students could also visit the memorial place of the former concentration camp of Gross Rosen all together and also discover the history of the castle of Książ/Furstenstein and the tunnel complex "Riese" beneath it.

Read more: The TRIYOU trilateral meeting Krzepice-Marl-Dnipro