Giving Europe a Soul
the youth social network in central and eastern Europe
Welcome to SocioMovens
- Giving Europe a Soul
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
„Bio sam stranac i beskućnik, a vi ste me primili.“
Biblija: Mt 25, 35
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)
Projekt Week in Kyiv, Ukraine
From the 21st to 26th October 2019, a youth social project week took place in Ukraine with the topic “Eco -not Ego!”. After two project weeks with our partner, the Salesian High School in Lviv, we gladly followed the invitation of the Salesians and accomplished this year’s project week in the capital Kyiv. 21 young
Read More„STEP IN“: Youth-Social project week in Lipova and Temesware
In Lipova, a small town in western-romania, a social-ethical youth week took place between the 21.-27 of march. 27 girls and boys assembled and concerned with social questions in their region. “STEP IN”, that means take action and engage yourself: You can move something” says Attila Dobai, who organized the week as a volunteer. What
Read MoreProject Week Lviv 2018
Social Entrepreneurship in the Ukraine The projectweek which took place at the end of october 2018 in Lviv in the western part of the ukraine, was the second one in that country. But it was the first projectweek at all, which had social entrepreneurship as its subject. 19 youngsters from Lviv dealt with social enterprises
Read MoreSuccessful international youth meeting
120 young people from seven different countries. From croatia. Poland. Romania. Slovakia. Ukraine. Hungary. And from Germany. They all met between the 12. and 17. of August in Budapest. There, socioMovens and the Kommende Dortmund had organized the international youth meeting Compact for Europe. The young people were participants of previous project weeks of socioMovens.
Read MoreSuccesfull call for donations
In the middle of August hundreds of young people from europe will come together for the “Compact for Europe” meeting in Budapest. To enable as much young people this project, socioMovens started an call for donations of the online-fundraising plattform betterplace.org. Within a few month 3670 Euro were collected. A big success! We want to
Read MoreCompact for Europe
The International Youth Project “Compact for Europe“, carried out from 12-17 August 2018 in Budapest, serves as a six-day network meeting for the establishment of youth-social commitment in Central and Eastern Europe on the ground of christian values. One of the main goals of this encounter is the examination of the social issues and social
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“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
Youth Counselling Training 07.2016
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Timișoara 10.2015
2015, Projektwochen, Rumänien
Motto
Monthly Motto Oktober 2020
Anual Motto: Vidimus! – We have seen! – Wir haben gesehen! Bible verse for October 2020: Mt 25, 35 „I was a stranger and homeless but you took me in.“ Impulse: Whoever walks through the world with open eyes will find that there is much injustice, both large and small: Poverty, exclusion, homelessness… I’m sure
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Monthly Motto September 2020
Annual Motto: „Vidimus! – We have seen!“ Bible verse for September 2020: Mt 25, 38 „Lord, when did we see you naked?“ Impulse: One look can do a lot: You probably also know situations in which you feel insecure, harassed or judged by the looks of others. And how easy it is to look down
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Monthly Motto August 2020
Annual Motto: „Vidimus! – We have seen!“ Bible verse for August 2020: Mt 25, 36 „I was in prison and you came to visit me.“ Impulse: “Nobody is an island” – this is a well-known saying. I think there is a lot of truth in that. We all know the temptation to close ourselves off.
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