Society

Danube Swabian women in today’s Europe 0
- Culture, Main article, Society
- March 15, 2026
What does Danube Swabian identity mean today? Women from across the Danube region gathered in Budapest to discuss language, memory and the future. The first Danube Swabian Women’s Conference demonstrated just how strongly women continue to shape culture, tradition and community – and why their stories have long been overlooked. It was precisely these questions
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Fit for (working) life in Bosnia-Herzegowina 0
- Current, Society
- July 16, 2025
A pilot programme to strengthen the life skills of disadvantaged young people in Bosnia-Herzegovina Between August 2022 and April 2023, Pharos e.V. Stuttgart and its partner organisation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Faros association, worked with around 40 young people from socially disadvantaged families – many of whom belong to the Roma minority. The project was carried
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Srebrenica: Films for a better future 0
- Allgemein, Culture, Current, Society
- September 18, 2024
The journey from Sarajevo to the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica leads through a beautiful landscape. It is the middle of July. The countryside that seems so peaceful today was the scene 29 years ago of one of the worst war crimes in Europe since the Second World War, which went down in history as
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United against energy poverty in Europe 0
- Allgemein, Current, Society
- June 5, 2024
From 8 to 9 April 2024 in Paris, everything revolved around the topic of energy. Here, at the Maison de l’Europe in the heart of the French capital, the LEAP-STEP project was launched. Funded by the European Commission and led by the Maison de l’Europe Paris and Europe Direct, all partners from eight EU countries
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Female founders in Bulgaria: “We are here to stay and want to be pioneers of green solutions”0
- Economy, Nature, Society
- May 15, 2023
May 2018. I hurry to the meeting point, car after car rushes beside me along the large boulevard in the centre of Sofia. Gergana Stancheva and Angela Ivanova are waiting for me in the park. They don’t have an office – we want to do the first interview on a bench. After a few minutes,
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On a female mission: Job search support for Ukrainian women in Germany 0
- Current, Society
- May 15, 2023
Since 2020, the association ABLE e.V., founded on the initiative of several Ukrainian-born women, has been taking care of women from Ukraine. A valuable community has developed between refugees and helpers. We spoke with Iryna Gumenschuk, one of the seven founders. Act-Build-Lead-Engage – The association with this hopeful name ABLE e.V. promises what its name
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