Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue

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The project is addressing secondary high school young students from EU member states and neighbouring countries. It is looking at the Baltic Sea region and it neighbouring countries as a microcosm of European history from the times of the Hanseatic League to the 21st century and will analyse its historical and current settings linked to borders, identity, mobility, inclusion and dialogue. Innovative results from the region are presented to a broader public using the flagship character for participants and the project. Pilot Project Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue In September 2014 the Council of the Baltic Sea States secretariat and the Körber Foundation (Hamburg, Germany) on the background of the foundation’s European history network EUSTORY organized the first Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue as a pilot project. The organizers invited 30 history interested secondary high school young students from EU member states and neighbouring countries. For a week where they brought EUSBSR to life by witnessing one river, two countries, two fortresses, one region on the external border of the European Union and one overarching dialogue for young people from the Baltic region. Baltic Eye – Instagram exhibition demonstrating regional identity As a result of the Youth Dialogue, the participants created media representations of their experiences in Narva/Ivangorod by photographs – made with smartphones. The pictures were made into an Instagram exhibition. Following the Dialogue, the participants will continue to be exponents of a Baltic identity, with greater awareness of both differences and commonalities. The exhibition of photographs, along with participants’ thoughts on the theme of Baltic identity are visualising the initial Dialogue (http://balticeye.net/). The flagship involves partners from Estonia, Germany, Poland and Russia.

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