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East Central Europe – what is it?

agakud — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:44:13 +0000

It is not easy to distinguish between East Europe and Central Europe. At the same time the local roots are very important. Despite people are changing, roots of changes and of the mentality can be seen in the past. So what is East-Central Europe? Oskar Halecki distinguished four regions in Europe (Western, West Central, East Central and Eastern Europe).Halecki defined East-Central Europe as a region from Finland to Greece, the eastern part of Central Europe, between Sweden, Germany, and Italy, on the one hand, and Turkey and Russia on the other.

(See: O. Halecki, The limits and divisions on European history, SheedCamp;Ward, New York 1950, p. 120).

Paul Robert Magocsi described the region as containing of 3 main zones: 1. northern zone, 2. Alpine-Carpathian zone and 3. Balkan zone. He refers to historical circumstances, e.g. including of non-existing states, as area of former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

There is also a proposal of institutions as United Nations, actually thr Group of Experts on Geographical Names, UNGEGN. It also defined the East-Central Europe.

Which concept is most attractive for you?

Network of cultural and civic activists – MitOst

agakud — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:55:00 +0000

The Society MitOst is a living network of cultural and civic activists in Eastern and Central Europe. Every year member meet at different cities in the region. A member can be everyone, who is interested in the culture and civic life in the region. The meetings have the name „Festival” and have different topics. E.g. the 9th Festival of MitOst took place in České Budějovice from 28.9.2011 till 2.10.2011. The topic of this MitOst – Festival was new forms of engagement. There were many people who are engaged for a balanced life.

I also took part on some interesting workshops about engagement via Internet and readings and talks about East Central Europe.

Carmen Eller: „Ein Jahr in Moskau – Reise in den Alltag”, reading and discussion

More about the 11th MitOst-Festival you can find here: http://www.mitost.org/mitglieder/internationales-mitost-festival/festival-archiv/festival-2011.html (in German).

MitOst is 15 years old, that’s why the big cake! After eating the cake with some 200 hunderts other people at the Festival, we went to one of many concerts while the Festival…

After the 9th MitOst-Festival in České Budějovice some MitOst-members went to Český Krumlov. It is a small city in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic with fine architecture and art of the historic old town and Český Krumlov Castle. It should be also mentioned that the Old Český Krumlov is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The pictue shows also the Revolving Theatre, which is an amazing thing one should see.

Prague is the place where different ways are crossing and many members of the association MitOst could meet after of before the annual meeting event, the so-called „MitOst-Festival”. It is a very open city with some quite unusual monuments.

More about MitOst you can find here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MitOst.

Popularisation of democratic values by the Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg

agakud — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:09:00 +0000

The Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg was a funding programme of Robert Bosch Foundation. This collegue supported popularisation of democratic values among young people from East Central Europe. I was a member of the Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg from May 2005 till July 2006. The photos present the finish of the collegue in July 2006 in Berlin.

Eastern Europe on move

agakud — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:01:00 +0000

Project work is something very important for the personal development of young people. Students of Eastern and Central Europe could learn the project work in practice thanks to the Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg of the Robert Bosch Foundation. Me as a member of the Kolleg together with two other members conducted an German-Ukrainian-Polish seminar about Eastern Europe on the move in Toruń in March 2006.

discussion about migration, interview with employee of the Polish Humanitarian Action