Annual Report 2024

Annual Report 2024

A year full of encounters, collaborations, and new momentum: In our annual report, we provide an insight into the projects, partnerships, and developments that shaped our work in 2024. Discover how we are strengthening cultural exchange and cooperation between East...
New Impulses for Exchange and Cooperation

New Impulses for Exchange and Cooperation

In September, the Foundation for West-Eastern Encounters traveled to Armenia to generate new ideas for collaboration and youth exchange. In Yerevan, we met with representatives of the Eurasia Partnership Foundation and the Europe in Law Association to discuss youth...
Looking at Central Asia – and Back

Looking at Central Asia – and Back

Between External Attribution and Self-Positioning: Differentiated Perspectives on a Diverse Region From a German and European perspective, Central Asia often appears as one vast geographic space. Rarely, however, do we consider the very different peoples, the various...
Europe Lab 2025

Europe Lab 2025

From August 15 to 18, 2025, this year’s Europe Lab took place in Weimar under the motto “Hyperpolarization in Europe: Looking Back and Ahead.” Young people from across Europe engaged in intensive discussions on three key topics: pluralistic democracy, climate change,...
Event ‘80 Years of Liberation from National Socialism’

Event ‘80 Years of Liberation from National Socialism’

On Thursday, 5 June 2025, the West-Eastern Encounters Foundation invited guests to a special event in an unusual setting: the lecture theatre ruins of the Charité Museum of Medical History in Berlin. To mark the 80th anniversary of liberation from National Socialism,...