TOGETHER FOR THE FUTURE IN EUROPE

THE PROJECT

For more than 35 years, there have been very strong ties between Prato and Ebensee (Austria) and Prato and Wangen (Germany). These relationships have been kept alive through institutional netting, cultural, artistic, social and sports events.

For the first time, the three cities have come together to develop a shared project by participating in a European tender (CERV). Given the approval of the project, a series of events and meetings will take place between May and September 2023.

The PoWECERV site presents the project, the participating cities and the related calendars of the events that will take place on the previously mentioned dates.

FINAL REPORTS

In the meantime, the follow-up reports and event descriptions for the three meetings in Ebensee, Wangen and Prato have been compiled and published.

You can download them here in PDF format

Follow-up Report

Ebensee	Wangen	Prato

Event desciption

Ebensee	Wangen	Prato

THE VISIT AT PRATO - THE CONCLUSION OF PROJECT 2023

The timing of the 3 meetings for the CERV participants in Ebensee (May), Wangen (June) and Prato (September) was chosen with the idea of combining their activities with official and cultural events - also to have them participate in activities involving the whole population.

Prato was introduced to the young people project with the aim of discussing how a youth-friendly city can be developed and how an industrial district can be geared toward the future.

ACTIVITIES IN PRATO
The activities in Prato took place Sept. 5-8 and concludes with the participation of the students in the Historical Parade (Corteggio storico)  on 8.9.
Details of the program in Prato can be found here>>>

The focus of attention in Ebensee was on topics such as memory culture, racism, discrimination and totalitarianism.
The programme and the results of the workshops in Ebensee can be found here>>>

In Wangen, the young people dealt with topics such as democratic participation and the design of activities in personal responsibility;
you can find more details here >>>

OUR PROJECT HAD STARTED AT EBENSEE!

From 4 to 7 May, students from Ebensee, Wangen and Prato met in Ebensee to start the first phase of our CERV project

On the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp on 6 May 1945, the focus of the work was on the culture of remembrance. The CERV students visited various memorials and explored the topic in workshops, with the guiding question being: "How can we preserve the memory of what we cannot remember because we did not experience it, but which others, very many, experienced?"

More information on the Ebensee trip and activities can be found here.

The journey continued in Wangen, where the students met from 22 to 25 June.

The focus of the trip was the participation of young people in politics and the wishes of the young generation for the future. The students also took part in workshops on these topics. You can watch a video with the results of the workshops here.

More information about the whole trip to Wangen and the activities can be found here.

In addition, our activities can be followed on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Deutschradio.

RADIOCERV

Deutschradio presents radio programmes on the respective journeys that deal with and document the experiences. The programme on the trip to Ebensee is available for download here.

PRESS CONFERENCE
Friday, April 14 - Council Hall - Presentation of the CERV project.

The press conference was attended by Councillor for Twinning Gabriele Bosi and other members of the Council involved for their delegations - Iaria Santi and Flora Leoni.

Also present were: The representatives of the respective twinning associations: the president of the Prato-Wangen Goffredo Borchi and the president of the Prato-Ebensee Ambra Giorgi, also Peter Schmitz for the German SI-PO cultural institute, the president of UNICEF for the Prato section Laura Badiani, the head of the Territorial Department of the Municipal Police Fabio De Simone

And the protagonists of the project were present; students from the 7 high schools participating in the project Convitto Cicognini, Liceo Copernico, IIS Dagomari, Istituto Datini, IIS Gramsci-Keynes, Liceo Livi,  IP Marconi  . There are 22 young participants, including 14 students, 3 technicians for Internet communication, video-recording and streaming, press, social and web-radio, 3 coordinators and 2 chaperones

More info can be found here>>>