After official opening of the conference which took place at Centrum Judaicum, the participants were transferred back to Hotel Dolce. And after having lunch at 3 o’clock we started the discussions.
Participants were divided into ten groups. Each of the groups settled down in its own room and discussed topics. There were ten topics – one for every working group. The discussions started with introductory part – every participant shortly told about him/her mentioning a name, country, organization and experienced connected to the topic of the discussion. Then there were brief presentation made by experts.
It was a pleasure to see young people from different backgroung and organisations, including the Voice of Congo, a Cardiff based organisation coming together to share and discuss issues related to diversity and tolerance on the agenda of the conference " European Youth in Action for Diversity and Tolerance" in Berlin. The young people were together with some key members of European Union including the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens Woman and Youth, Head of the Division " Prevention of Delinquency, Right-Wing Extremism and Xenophobia" and also Ms Karin Lopatta-Loibl, European Commision, Directorate-General for Education and Culture, Youth Policy Unit welcomed the participants. "One of the tasks of young people was to identify common and different approaches to the problem of racism, xenophobia at European and national levels as this issue is in the political agenda of European Union" said the Mr Ralf -Rene Weingärnter, Director for Youth and Sport, Council of Europe (CoE).
