Aims of the funding programme

Areas of emphasis and target groups

Internships within the CrossCulture Programme for the countries of the Eastern Partnership and Russia are offered in the following work areas:

• human rights, migration & refugees
• political education & youth participation
• knowledge society, intercultural dialogue, mediation & reconciliation
• media

The target groups are young professionals and volunteers from various areas of civil society and multipliers in organisations and media.

Organisation of the programme

The internship will last eight weeks and will be supplemented by a tailor-made framework programme – for example, accompanying events or individual visits– during the stay in the host country. The internships are characterised by the fact that they can be individually adapted to the requirements and wishes of the scholarship holders both in terms of content and organisation. Thanks to this personalised and needs-oriented concept, they are very well-suited in supporting the participants to acquire professional and sociopolitical competence in their specific area of work. In the end, these competences strengthen the participants in developing an integrative, democratic and pluralistic society in their home countries.