Welcome to Germany

Embassy of Federal Republic of Germany in cooperation with 5 German Foundations (Konrad Adenauer, Friedrich Ebert, Friedrich Naumann, Heinrch Boll i Hanns Seidel), German Organization for Tehnical Cooperation (GTZ), European Movement in Serbia as local partner and students network AEGEE, organized project Welcome to Germany.

Welcome to Germany project is motivated by an obvious lack of opportunities for student population in Serbia to learn empirically about the customs, culture and the overall functioning of the EU Member States. According to study of EU Integration Office of Government of Republic of Serbia 79% of youth in Serbia didn't cross the border in the last year, and only 5% of those who traveled had opportunity to visit Germany. 

The essence of Welcome to Germany project is to enable up to 200 young people from Serbia (55 students and nearly 150 high school pupils) to travel to Germany and organize them a creative program aimed at learning about the functioning of German institutions, values, culture and customs.

By getting to learn about the institutions, culture, customs and citizens of one of the founding EU Member States, young people from Serbia will be able to establish important contacts in Germany, which will contribute to the overall cooperation and understanding between the two countries. The fact that Germany took over the EU Presidency on January 1, 2007 is an added value to the overall goals of the project.

More about project you can find on www.dobrodosliunemacku.org (available at Serbian and German language)