Project ‘Georgian minority women as integration ambassadors’: Study visit to Germany

From 13 – 20 May 2024, 10 ethnic Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian project participants living in Georgia visited Berlin.
Including the two project leaders, the group consisted of 4 teachers, 4 activists and 4 journalists. The participants got to know the work and best practices of German and international educational institutions, organisations, media houses and meeting places live on site. Once again this year, the visitors took every opportunity to ask their hosts numerous questions. The various interlocutors appreciated the lively exchange and interest of the women from Georgia focused on independent reporting, independent financing of media companies and educational institutions, the German education system, educational opportunities and participation for girls and women, gender equality and the implementation of human rights.

Arrival at airport BER on 13.05.2024
1st date: visiting the Lette Vereins on 14.05.2024
Mr Sandmann presents the training centre to us.
Lette Verein Berlin
Public law foundation
Visiting RBB tv and radio studios
on 14.05.2024
RBB tv studio
at Masurenallee
RBB Radio studios
at Masurenallee
On our way to the demonstration in front of the Georgian Embassy
in the evening of 14.05.2024
Demonstration for a democratic, Europe-focussed Georgia
Visiting girl’s participation center Szenenwechsel Neukölln on 15.05.2024
Excanging experiences with Anita Surkic, social worker
Meeting representatives of women’s rights organisations OWEN Berlin e.V. and filia. die frauenstiftung Hamburg
Meeting representatives of amnesty international on 15,05.2024: Judith Hoffmann, Stefanie Krebs-Pahlke
Excanging experiences with representatives of ai women: Maria Taranko, Elisabeth v. Alvensleben, Medina Niyazova
Visiting Ostkreuz School of Photography on 16.05.2024
Meeting Thomas Meyer, member of Ostkreuz Photographer’s Agency since the year 2000
Meeting Barbara Oertel, Eastern Europe editor at taz, on 16.05.2024
Barbara tells us about her journalistic work in and about Georgia
Visitin taz on 16.05.2024
Visting Georg von Giesche School on 17.05.2024
Excanging experiences with with the deputy headmaster Mr Schlecht
Visting Georg von Giesche School on 17.05.2024

The project ‘Georgian Minority Women as Integration Ambassadors’ (duration: 1.08.2023 – 31.07.2024) was implemented by the NGO Development and Engagement Platform DEP based in Tbilisi in partnership with the Rönne Foundation and funded by the Federal Foreign Office as part of the Eastern Partnership Programme.