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2.-4.7.2019: German-Baltic Conference "Building bridges - shaping Europe's future" in Riga

Bringing young people from different countries into contact with each other, learning from each other, getting to know each other: For decades, youth exchange has made an important contribution to understanding, peace and friendship beyond language and national borders. Also between the Baltic states and Germany, many organizations and institutions organize and promote youth exchange with very different priorities.

From July 2nd to 4th the Riga Baltic German Studienstiftung organizes the German-Baltic Conference 2019 under the title "Building bridges - shaping Europe's future". The aim of the conference is to connect the various actors, promoters and multipliers of the youth and student exchange between the Baltic States and Germany in their diversity and thus to strengthen this exchange in the sense of promoting intercultural competence, democracy, the rule of law and human rights.

Ieva Dzelme and Julia Petz from the DAAD Riga will give a presentation titled "More than Scholarships and Seminars - The Work of the German Academic Exchange Service in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania" in the second session on July 3, starting at 2 pm in Room 1 ,

02. July, 17:00 - 04. July, 17:00
Latvijas Nacionālā Bibliotēka,
Mūkusalas iela 3, Rīga, LV-1423, Latvia

ADMISSION FREE

Presentation "Study and Research in Germany. DAAD Scholarship Programme."

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