About the BITI exchange project

BITI / Being – Summer exchange, Youth in Action, Ljubljna – DIC, 2011

21 youngsters from Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, who come from different cultural, ethnic and social environments and belong to different religions, cooperate in the youth exchange in Ljubljana.

In the project, we are researching  the connection between intercultural dialogue and environmental care as well as responsible cohabitation in the community as one of the forms of connecting and cooperating in overcoming the differences and separations.

Before the exchange, the partner organisations made  a documentary video presenting the problem in their environment. The research  is continuing within the DIC community (students’ home, 600 pupils, 100 students), which has worked on this project for three yearsin cooperation with the broader area of the local community of the City of Ljubljana. Project is taking place in the form of workshops – video, dance and theatre as well as the bike repair and construction workshop – and in the form of discussions on the relevant topics and socialising. Before the end of the project we will organise a public discussion with guests and experts. The presentation of  the productions made before and during the project,  will serve as a basis and a starting point for discussion. The reflections, views and findings will be published in a special publication after the end of the exchange, which will be given to the participants together with a DVD of the productions. They will also be published on the Internet and accessible to other interested users. The realisations and concrete findings will be applicable and useful also in other environments.

Financiers and sponsors of the project:

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
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