Save the Date – International Youth Meeting 2022 in Kraków
- With an international youth meeting from July 25 to 29, 2022 in Kraków, we want to bring together more than 200 people from all over Europe to live our vision of Europe! Be part of it!
Welcome to SocioMovens
- Giving Europe a Soul
socioMovens receives Salzburg Dialogpreis
- SocioMovens receives the Hans-Walter Vavrosky Dialogpreis 2020 for its commitment to a Europe of solidarity. For socioMovens and Peter Klasvogt is the Dialogpreis the second European award after the award of the Konstanzer Konzilspreis in 2017.
Pope Francis to young people
- " Dear young people, make the most of these years of your youth. Don’t observe life from a balcony. Don’t confuse happiness with an armchair, or live your life behind a screen. [...] Open the door of the cage, go out and fly! Please, don’t take an early retirement."
New Map
- A new map with all previous socioMovens projects has been published. A look at it is always worth it.
News
Annual Motto 2020: “Vidimus – We have seen”
“Lord, when did we see you hungry and give you food or thirsty and give you drink?” (Mt 25: 37)
„Hang in – Don’t give up, even when it is difficult!!“
„He gives power to the tired ones and He gives strenght to those who are exhausted“ (Jes 40,29)
Workshop für die Jugendlichen in Kroatien
„Es gibt Menschen, die wenig haben und alles geben, was sie haben. Solche Menschen glauben an das Leben und den Schatz des Lebens, und ihre Truhen sind nie leer.“ Am 25. Februar 2022 fand, organisiert von der Kommission für die Seelsorge für Menschen mit Behinderungen und ihre Familien der Diözese Varaždin, ein Workshop für alle
Read MoreUnity in diversity – the work of the local community in Ludbreg, Croatia
“What we need to do is find a way to celebrate our diversity and discuss our differences without breaking our communities.” (Anne Frank) At our project location in Ludbreg, Croatia, 9 project weeks have taken place so far, often with the focus on working with people with disabilities. Here, you can read more about the
Read MoreSolidarity with Ukraine
Only last December, socioMovens Ukraine organised a project in eastern Ukraine to help the local people on side and provide them with essential food and other materials. Already then it became clear that the so-called “situation” in eastern Ukraine is not a conflict, it’s a war. A project in this area showed the need from
Read MoreFinally we meet again – First-Generation-Meeting in Szeged
After the last months and years were marked by the Corona pandemic, February has started with an exciting program for the Hungarian socioMovens community. Young coordinators, who have already participated in a project week and can now imagine organizing a project week themselves, participated in a four-day meeting from 03 to 06 February 2022. The
Read MoreProjectweek in Koszalin – we are growing!
The Corona pandemic is still affecting our daily lives in Poland. It is therefore all the more gratifying that a project week could finally take place again at the end of January. Almost 20 young people and their coordinators came together in Koszalin, Poland, from January 24 to 27, 2022, to deal with the topic
Read MoreFirst Generation Ukraine in practice – Santa Claus Action in Eastern Ukraine
At the beginning of December SocioMovens Ukraine had their First Generation meeting in the Eastern part of Ukraine. Five former participants of project weeks in Lviv and Kyiv spent five days together with the coordinators in different cities in Eastern Ukraine (Pokrovsk, Slovians’k) to introduce themselves as socioMovens Ukraine, to meet, exchange and network with
Read MoreCompact for Europe
“Due to the intensive experience of community cultural and linguistical barriers become a minor matter”
( Pauline Wawrzonkowski (Organizer) )Compact for Europe
“We have learned how important it is to work together and never give up”
( Andrei, participant of Compact for Europe )Compact for Europe
I would never have thought that we would be able to remember everything in that short time. But we were a great team”
( Hungarian participant of Compact for Europe )Compact for Europe
“The sensitive recognition of people at the edge of society and the contact with them and the importance which christian values like respect, tolerance and fairness have for social engagement, weld the youth together.”
( Pauline Wawrzonkowski (Organizer) )Compact for Europe
“It’s great to have an observable result at the end of the day, on which you contributed”
( Participant of Compact for Europe )Galerie
Fist Generation-Meeting Szeged 03.-06.02.2022
2022, First Generation, Ungarn
Projectweek Koszalin, 22.-25.01.2022
2022, Polen, Projektwochen
Santa Claus Action in Eastern Ukraine 2021 (First Generation in practice)
2021, First Generation, Ukraine
International training of coordinators 21-24.10.2021
2021, Training of coordinators
National training of coordinators Szeged, Hungary 09-10.10.2021
2021, Training of coordinators, Ungarn
Motto
Christmas Motto 2021
“Blessed are you…” – We have taken this promise from the Gospel to heart this year. We were able to experience that wherever we share our lives with one another and where we commit ourselves to the poor and troubled in our surroundings, a piece of heaven already becomes tangible. One could also say that
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Monthly Motto June 2020
Annual Motto 2021: Blessed are you! Bible verse for June 2021: 3st verse of the song “Blessed are you if you see the pain” Impuls “How are you?” is a question we often ask during spontaneous encounters in our everyday lives. Probably very few people expect a truly honest answer. But how do you react
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Monthly Motto March 2020
Annual Motto 2021: Blessed are you! Bible verse for March 2021: 1st verse of the song ” Blessed are you, when you carry loads” Impuls Before the Corona pandemic, they were usually crowded: Fitness Gyms. The dream of the perfect body has so much appeal that many people voluntarily lift heavy weights. The recipe for
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