EUROMEDITERRANEA 2015 - 20 years after Srebrenica, in memory of Alexander Langer

We are glad to invite you to participate in Euromediterranea 2015, promoted by the Alexander Langer Foundation, Association Tuzlanska Amica e Forum of Tuzla Citizens.

This year for the first time, Euromediterranea, the traditional annual event of the Langer Foundation, will take place in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Twenty years after the genocide of Srebrenica and after the passing of Alexander Langer we decided to create a program dedicated to his figure and engagement and to the thick network of relations born from the work carried out by the Langer Foundation in the last 10 years in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2-11 July 2015, Bolzano - Tuzla - Sarajevo - Srebrenica

We will start from the experience of the "Verona Forum for peace and reconciliation in the territories of Former Yugoslavia", of which Langer was one of the main promoters, to move to today challanges.

One of the key actors of the program will be the Association Adopt Srebrenica. Young people from Srebrenica who, since 2005, work on the ground to open spaces for dialogue among different stories and traditions in order to improve the future of their city. Inspired by Langer’s words they are: "pioneer plants, mediators, bridges builders, wall jumpers and frontiers explorers”.

This year the Association Adopt Srebrenica will receive the International Alexander Langer Award 2015, for their everyday engagement in promoting inter-ethnic dialogue in one of the most complex contexts of the Balkans. But also for their ability to invite local and international audience to reflect on a foundamental episode of European history.

Like each year the program is addressed to local and international participants and foresees activities intended to gather a public with different backgrounds and different knowledge of the local context.

PROGRAM 2-11 JULY

2 July

The program starts in Bolzano where the Association Adopt Srebrenica will officially receive the International Alexander Langer Award 2015. In the evening a bus will leave to Tuzla.

3-5 July – Tuzla

The bus will arrive in Tuzla in the morning and in the afternoon the International Meeting “Is Europe possible without multiculture?” will start.

Click here to view the whole program of the conference.

6-8 July – Sarajevo

Participants will take part in theater plays, exhibitions and concerts as well as meetings and visits of Sarajevo. We will follow also the initiatives that are planned in town to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.

For those interested, it will be possible to participate in the Peace March, from Nezuk to Srebrenica (100 km on foot) the 8-9-10 of July. We will provide support for what concerns the registration and logistical information.

9-11 luglio – Srebrenica

In Srebrenica we will take part in the Commemoration of the genocide at the Potočari Memorial.

REGISTRATION

Tuition fee is 500,00 €, including travel, 8 nights, 9 meals, rent of rooms for the activities, translation, informative materials.

We ask a deposit of 250 € to be transfered at the moment of registration on this account:

Cassa di Risparmio di BZ -Südtiroler Sparkasse

IBAN: IT91 S 060 4511 6130 0000 0555 000

Motivation: Euromediterranea 2015

The rest of the fee will be collected during the trip.

It is possible to enroll within the 10th of June 2015 writing to giulia@alexanderlanger.net.

TRAVEL INFORMATION

One bus will leave from Bolzano to Tuzla the night of the 2nd of July and will stop to pick up participants in other cities along the way.

For those who want to reach Bosnia with other means of transport, another tuition fee will be communicated. It is also possible to follow just a part of the program. We kindly ask you to communicate us exactly which days you will be present.

ACCOMMODATION

Participants will be accommodated at the Hotel Tuzla in Tuzla and at the Hotel Grand in Sarajevo. In Srebrenica we will be hosted by local families of the network Adopt Srebrenica.

For more information:

giulia@alexanderlanger.net