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2004
July 10, 2004: The "Festival de L’Espoir" organized in Kibuye/Rwanda and involving young people for Africa’s Great Lakes Region marks the 10th commemoration of the Rwandan genocide. In the course of the festival a group of participants creates the German-Rwandan initiative "Memos".
November 25 – December 10, 2004: Under the
title "Remembering, Learning, and Commemorating in Germany and Rwanda –
44/94/04" Memos organizes a study trip to Berlin, Buchenwald and Nuremberg
funded by "Zivik", a programme of IFA, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.
2005
August,
2005: After a fundraising event organized by friends and acquaintances of the
late Hermann Nauermann, Memos implements the first edition of the bi-annual
Hermann-Nauermann-Memorial-Tournament, a football event for 14 – 16 year olds
from Berlin and Brandenburg.
2006
March
– November, 2006: Memos and the Memorial and Learning Center Beit Terezín from
Israel organize the youth encounter "Football inside Concentration Camps".
The project takes place in Israel and Germany and is supported by "Europeans
for Peace" and the "Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future".
2007
May
– October, 2007: Memos and Beit Terezín carry out the follow-up project in the
Czech Republic entitled "
Commemoration
in Germany and Israel – a third-generation search for a future remembrance
culture of national socialist injustice".
2010 – 2012
2010,
2011, 2012: The Rwandan NGO Esperance and Memos e. V. jointly organize three
youth events, entitled "Four Countries for Peace", taking place
in Goma (Democratic Republic of Congo), Kigali (Rwanda) and Bujumbura
(Burundi). Their collaboration was funded by the German Foreign Office and the
German Football Federation.
January, 2011: Memos supports the Rwandan NGO "Never Again Rwanda" in organizing "Sharing the Past – Shaping the Future", a study trip to Germany and Poland, focused on the pedagogy of remembrance. The project was organized and funded by the Civil Peace Service in Rwanda.
July 14 – 28, 2011: Memos supports the youth initiatives "Wilhelmstraße 77" and "Trieste Tropen" in realizing "Reflecting Colonialism", a project financed by the German National Agency "Jugend in Europa".
March – July, 2012: Collaboration with the Youth Initiative "Wer sind Helden" in organizing "Ali 70", a project funded by the EU’s "Youth in Action" program.
May,
2012 – March, 2013: In the context of the Memos-project "Youth under the
Swastika", young Berliners interview contemporary witnesses in regards to
their upbringing in National Socialist Germany. Financial support was provided
by Berlin’s Youth and Family Foundation (JFSB).
2015/2016
November,
2015 – September, 2016: Memos e. V. and the Institute of Youth Development KULT
in Sarajevo coordinate "Between Diversity and Division", a youth
encounter held in Sarajevo and Berlin, funded by Europeans for Peace/EVZ.
2016
March
– October, 2016: Conception and coordination of the two-part Erasmus+ project "Recollecting
the Future". 30 professionals and volunteers active in the youth field in Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Croatia and Germany participate in
activities in Petrovac/Montenegro and Sarajevo/Bosnia-Hercegovina.
2017/2018
March,
2017 – February, 2018: Conception and coordination of the three-part Erasmus+
project "Brain Drain, Brain Gain + Circular Migration" 42 youth
workers from 7 South-Eastern and Central European countries are involved in
activities carried out in North Macedonia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Germany.
2018/2019
February,
2018 – January, 2019: Conception and coordination of the three-part Erasmus+
project "Boosting Transversal Skills". Youth and youth workers from
England, Germany and 5 South-Eastern European countries take part in three
mobility activities in the UK, Bosnia and North Macedonia.
2019
March
– September, 2019: Implementation of the German-Rwandan extracurricular youth
encounter "Sharing the Past – Shaping the Future" in accordance with
Agenda 2030, funded by Engagement Global on behalf of Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
2020/2021
September, 2020 – March, 2021: Memos supports the Rwandan artist Kivumbi King to design and present the project "More About Richard Kandt" financed by the Goethe Institutes in Cameroon and Namibia in the framework of their "Burden of Memory Project Fund 2020".