Day 4 Workshop: “Digital tools to strengthen communication between citizens from the Danube countries”
On the third and final day of the workshop, 24 July 2025, the results were presented and the project ended with a closing event. In the morning, all participants visited a class in school. Afterwards everyone met to show their filmed interviews to other students and exchange ideas in discussion rounds. The younger students asked […]
Day 3 Workshop: “Digital tools to strengthen communication between citizens from the Danube countries”
On the second day of the workshop, 23 July 2025, the edition of the rough cuts followed. At the beginning, external media expert David Fichtner introduced the apps ‘CapCut’ and ‘HeyGen’. He also explained different interview styles and presented various tools for cutting, editing, adding license-free music and improving sound quality. He also demonstrated the […]
Day1 Workshop:„Digital tools to strengthen communication between citizens from the Danube countries” ViMA danube
On the day before the workshop, 21 July 2025, Marina Lebherz, a staff member at ILEU e.V., introduced the eighteen participants to the online platform ‘ViMA danube’. While playing a ViMA bingo, the pupils worked interactively with the exchange platform, wrote their own comments and added some input on the Actionbound-entry. This served as preparation […]
Day 2 Workshop: “Digital tools to strengthen communication between citizens from the Danube countries”
On the first day of the workshop, 22 July 2025, Sabine Geller introduced the participants to the topic of ‘storytelling techniques’ using the practical example of ‘Danube Confluence’. She explained how important it is to include detailed shots, to have a central theme in the interview as a point of orientation and to loosen up […]
Actionbound Preparation Meeting Summary
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025Time: 18:00 – 19:30Participants: 21 international and local students, teachers, and project coordinators The meeting opened with a round of introductions and confirmation that all students had already connected with their host families and were in contact with their German peers. An overview of the upcoming exchange week in Ulm was […]
Successful Kick-Off for ELEVATE Project in Sevnica, Slovenia
On May 6–7, 2025, the new EU-funded ELEVATE project officially launched with a two-day kick-off meeting in Sevnica, Slovenia. Supported by the Interreg Danube Programme, the three-year project brings together 17 project partners and 13 strategic associated partners from across the Danube Region — including ILEU e.V. from Ulm, Germany. ELEVATE aims to strengthen collaboration […]
98. Come together Session 22.06.25
Dear colleagues and friends from the Danube region and other European countries We cordially invite you to the 98th international session by Videoconferencing: Come together! Connecting people by culture! Time and date: Sunday, 22.06.2025, 6:30 p.m. (CET), in some of your countries 7:30 p.m., in other ones 5:30 p.m. This session will be moderated by Carmen Stadelhofer (ILEU e.V.) and […]
Online Lecture with Prof. Dr. Brigitte Geißel, “Democracy as Self-Government – Democratic Innovations by and with Citizens”
The event will be held in English, with translation into Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian and German if needed. For organizational reasons, we kindly ask you to confirm your participation and let us know if you require translation. Invitation: Lecture on “Democracy as Self-Government” with Prof. Dr. Brigitte Geißel – 15 July, 6:00 p.m. (CET) Dear colleagues […]
“Stand up for Europe and Democracy” – A Sign of Unity
A Call for Participation from the Fit 4 Democracy Project Welcome to our new project! What brings people together? Sometimes the small, everyday things hold a special kind of power that we often overlook.That’s what we discovered through our project “Bread Connects – Give a Sign of Friendship.” For those who aren’t familiar with it: […]
Fit4Democracy – Call for Participation: Best Practice Activities for Democracy
Dear colleagues and friends from the Danube region and other European countries, as part of the Fit4Democracy project, we are creating a so called “toolbox”: We will collect simple, everyday activities that help people participate in democracy. These activities should be easy to do, don’t require much time or money, and connect to participatory democracy. […]