We are planning an Alumni-Meeting in October 2010,

all former participants of the European Summer Schools for Social Work in Berlin from 1996-2010 are friendly invited to take part in this years Alumni-Meeting. The topic of the meeting will focus on the FIGHT against Human Trafficking, which will provide an opportunity for professional social workers to exchange ideas and experiences as well as create a network all over Europe and beyond.


Here is some information concerning the alumni week:

Time
From October 24th, 2010 (Sunday arrival) until October 30st, 2010 (Saturday departure).


Topic
The 15th Summer School 2010 in July had the topic >FIGHT against Human Trafficking<. We would like to continue with this topic. The FIGHT against Human Trafficking is a very important issue for international human rights, which is also an inherent issue for social work and the political agenda in Europe.
We are also organising a social work art project called 1001001, e.g. artists in different countries are painting their interpretation of >FIGHT against human trafficking<. We started in December 2009 with the first small exhibition in Stockholm. Maybe you can help us. More about it in Berlin.

Fees
There is a participation fee of 140 ? per person to cover the minimum expenditure.

Accommodation and ticket
As organized in all our Summer Schools you will get
- a bed in an apartment of a student in our university. (You know this is part of our intercultural philosophy.)
and
- a one-week-ticket of the public transport system in Berlin.


If you have any questions or additional proposals which we should discuss on this meeting do not hesitate to contact us.

info(at)socialeurope.de

eurosoc(at)asfh-berlin.de


The deadline for interest is on September 1st 2010.  

Best regards
Prof. Dr. JÜRGEN NOWAK
Kati Hübner who is responsible for the preparation of the alumni meeting

"FATAL PROMISES - 13 days since our screening in Berlin
Dear reader,
I hope you are enjoying your summer and are getting a chance to soak up the sun before the fall.
We here at the Fatal Promises office have had quiet a busy summer ourself. As you know we have had the great opportunity to screen Fatal Promises in Berlin at the 15th European Summer School for Social Work, a great two week full time course held in Berlin, which brings together social workers and students from around the globe to learn, discuss and find solutions for various problems
faced by the social work community.
This year the theme for the two weeks was exclusively Human Trafficking. The screening of Fatal Promise came towards the end of the workshop and was followed by a very interesting,
constructive and intense discussion with Michael Junghans, the organizer of the Summer School and
Virgina Moukouli from the University of Hamburg, as well as Anneliese Rohrer and myself.
The discussion with the students was only engaging but also uplifting and thought provoking which is
what we love about showing the film and meeting the audience. We believe that through exchanges like these we will all start to find a way to fight Human Trafficking together.
Best,
Kat
"Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery."
-- Aeschylus



The up and coming generation
Roughly a year ago the Fatal Promises team got a message from a stranger via our Facebook site,
saying that he was an activist in Germany and that he wanted to support us in getting Fatal Promises
out there and cooperate in raising awareness. Of course we immediately excepted his friend request,
but were not sure if his enthusiasm would really translate into any action.
Well, we were wrong: this stranger was Michael Junghans, the organizer of the European Summer School. Over the 12 months that followed we exchanged quiet a few emails with Michael and when
the spring came around we even talked to him over the phone and that is when he asked us if we were willing to come out to Berlin and screen Fatal Promises at the European Summer School, we gladly excepted.
So, mid-July we flew to Berlin and met Michael for the first time in person at the Alice-Salomon-Hochschule in east Berlin.
We were not only impressed by the number of students who were present but by the discussion that followed the screening of the film. For one and a half hours the students engaged in a very lively and
thought provoking discussion with director Kat Rohrer and producer Anneliese Rohrer.
The filmmakers even had a chance to ask the students questions about there participation in the summer school as well as some of the puzzlement some of them faced when telling their professors in
their respective countries about their desire to learn more about Human Trafficking and their wish to become more active in the field.
For us, the Fatal Promises team, it showed us that there is an awareness as well as a desire by the up and coming generation of social workers and young people to become active and do something
about Human Trafficking, which is what we need in order to continue the fight against this ever growing crime and to finally abolish slavery once and for all."

Also watch:

http://www.greenkatproductions.com/Downloads/FP_Newsletter_8_5.pdf

Trailer of Fatal Promises:

at the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin.

Info "Fatal Promises":

Human Trafficking is defined as the recruitment, transportation and harboring of
persons, by means of threat of violence, use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, or the abuse of power for the purpose of sexual exploitation or labor servitude.

Every year, an estimated 800,000 human beings are trafficked across international borders from countries of origin to countries of destination. It is a
multibillion-dollar global criminal enterprise, third in size after drugs and arms
smuggling.

Through personal stories by victims of trafficking, and interviews with politicians,
Non Governmental Organizations (NGO?s) representatives and activists, Fatal
Promises provides an in depth look at the realities of human trafficking suffered by victims and struggled against by NGO?s and activists versus the rhetoric of politicians and pundits who claim to be making significant strides into combating this horrific crime against humanity.

FATAL PROMISES - Narrative Summary
 
Katja was 18 when her boss in Ukraine approached her about an opportunity to take a summer job as a waitress in the US. Upon arrival, she was taken to the
heartland of America and forced to work as an exotic dancer 16 hours a day; 6 days a week. She was held in an apartment, threatened, raped and beaten, but fortunate to escape alive.
 
Nadja was 17 years old when a school friend deceived her with the promise of
work in a hotel in Moldova. Instead, she was trafficked into the sex industry, he
papers confiscated, her resistance beaten into submission. She was locked up in apartment and every day she was taken to different places to serve customers Her attempts to escape resulted in more violence abuse. While enslaved she witnessed the murder and rape of others.

Anja was lured to Russia with the promise of seasonal work.  She spent months as a slave worker in an apple orchard. When not working in the field- sometimes barely clothed- she was held prisoner in a camp, raped, witnessed violence to others, and never saw a dime for her work.
 
Eugene was 18 years old and a student at the naval academy when he signed a bogus contract for work on a fishing boat. He was taken to an unmarked ship off the coast of Japan and together with 30 other men from Ukraine he was held in inhumane conditions without proper food, lodgings and pay. Eugene?s health is damaged for the rest of his life.
 
Nikolai, a 45-year-old sailor, left his wife and three daughters to take a job on a
crab fishing boat off the coast of Russia as he had done before as a professional sailor. This time though he was held for over four months on an unmarked fishing boat, forced to work 18 hour days, eat crab bait for food, and physically abused. 
He would eventually return to his family without money; a broken, sick and
changed man.

In Fatal Promises, they relive their stories, from their first contact with traffickers, through their ordeal, to their eventual rescue or escape.  They describe how they lived an almost invisible existence in the countries of destination, where they were subjected to rapes or beatings, worked in torturous work conditions, left hungry, lived in constant fear for their 0wn lives or the life of their family members. 
 
Their stories, along with compelling visuals of the environment in which they live are used as the threads for Fatal Promises. These stories are woven into the
fabric of the film, tying together interviews with government officials, experts and activists, and representatives from NGO?s into a narrative that
illuminates just how differently each side perceives the problem.

www.fatalpromises.com

Wed., 21. July 2010

2.00 pm @ Audimax

The Director Kat Rohrer was personally present.

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Have a look at our programm:

European Summer School 2010 program

Also we selected this opening song:

A new updated programm for the European Summer School 2010 Berlin is online now.
Summer School preliminary program

New Strategic for EISA
We also very happy, that we found a new strategic partner. We say welcome to BIKA Mitte.
Have a look: http://www.socialeurope.de/about-us/strategic-partners.html

Further information can be found on: www.swsd2010.org/en/index.html

Wherever we live in the world, people are being harmed, abused and neglected and their civil, political, economic, cultural and social rights are being violated. Every day, social workers are helping individuals and groups of people in such situations, helping them to live a better life and to find ways to respect competing rights in complex situations.The implementation of all the international Human Rights Conventions, treaties and agreements used to focus on individual civil and political rights in order to guarantee fair trials, rights to vote, freedom from torture and abuse. More and more they now also consider collective/community rights and emphasise economic, social and cultural rights in order to defend the rights to education, housing, health, employment, adequate income and social security.This new focus on making human rights a reality in daily life ? ?making human rights real? - is an important issue in the consultations leading into the 2010 Joint World Conference. The social work profession works alongside those who are excluded, discriminated against, abused or poor ? whose rights are not respected. The profession aims to achieve social change leading to a dignified life and social justice for all.IFSW President, Dr David N Jones, comments that ?Wherever there is extreme poverty, lack of basic needs like food, water and shelter, the trafficking and abuse of people across countries or serious family problems in affluent societies, you will find social workers alongside people, helping them to make changes in their lives. The 2010 social work world conference will show how social work will develop its contribution to building people-centred and sustainable social progress and social change. World social work day gives us an opportunity to celebrate this crucial work.?

Source: The International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW)

http://www.ifsw.org/p38001971.html

2010 World Social Work Poster
Download the World Social Work Poster

These news are supported by the Europe-Institute for Social Work Berlin www.socialeurope.de

If you want to get a lot of information about child poverty in Europe and in others parts of the world then look on the website: www.fightpoverty.mmbrico.com which is edited by a group of students form Macedonia. They write about their work:

"This project came as an idea of 4 students whose creativity and awareness of the problem gives opportunity for its promotion and further solutions. The successful implementation of the project involves the following goals:

*raising people's awareness of the problem (giving all the negative consequences which come out of the problem.);

Please send us your filled out forms per e-mail.

An alternative postal address you find here:

Europe - Institute for Social Work at the Alice Salomon University e.V.

For more information click on Summer School

Project activities eligible for funding include:

1. Direct victim support

2. Empowerment of vulnerable groups and communities

3. Cooperation between non-governmental organizations from countries of origin and destination

4. Collection of evidence-based knowledge

Through the Call for Proposals, a total amount of USD 500,000 will be disbursed to Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).

Size of the grants:

Minimum amount: USD 30,000

Maximum amount: USD 50,000

The Call for Proposals will close after the first 300 applications have been received or on 5 April 2010, whichever comes first. Selected organizations will be notified and summaries of their project proposals will be published on the UN.GIFT website.

For more information on the Call for Proposals, please consult the guidelines.

To apply, please register, fill in the on-line form and develop the full project proposal. While working on your application you can save the form at any time by clicking the "Save Form" button. Once you have completed the on-line form and attached the full project proposal, please click the "Submit Form" button. Please note that once you have submitted the form, you will not be able to make any further changes.

Guidelines

Full Project Proposal Template

Interim Report Template

Final Report Template

Online Application Form

http://www.ungift.org/ungift/civil-society/index.html

This master program is supported by the Europe-Institute for Social Work Berlin www.socialeurope.de

For further information see Alice Salomon University for Applied Sciences

So, new Links on the EISA Homepage are online.

For example: European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation

Helsinki, Seville, Uppsala, Athen, Graz, Bruxelles,

www.emahumanrights.org

service/master-study-programs.html

On our website you find the preliminary program of the "Europe Institute for Social Work Summer School 2010", the requirements to participate and the application form. Below you find the preliminary program and other relevant information on behalf of your application to be downloaded.

preliminary program  |  requirements for participation  |  application form

For more information click on Summer School.

From July 11th to 24th, 2010 the Europe-Institute for Social Work will organize the 15th European Summer School for Social Workers at the Alice Salomon University for Applied Sciences Berlin. This Summer School will focus on the topic FIGHT Against Human Trafficking. At the beginning of February 2010 we'll send posters and detailed information to all our European partners.

Then, you will find the preliminary program and all the requirements of participation on this website. All students who are studying social work in the second half of their bachelor or studying in a masters program in Europe are invited to apply.

For more information click on Summer School.

The project 1001001 creates awareness through art and social education. It shows a visualization of the term FIGHT Global Human Trafficking. In the next years 100 artists in 100 different countries will develop an unique, innovative and creative project. The Department of Social Work at the University of Stockholm and the Europe-Institute for Social Work Berlin are presenting the first exhibition of the Art Project 1001001 in Sweden.

The artists Ann-Pia Azizuddin, Margareth Osju and Jan Eugen Bergström tackle very creatively the topic of human trafficking in artworks exhibited between the 14th and 18th of December, 2009.

On Monday, December 14th, 2009, the artists and the project manager Michael Junghans will open the exhibition at 2.30 p.m.

For more information please contact Michael Junghans by email or visit the project's website.