History, Heritage & Remembrance

JKPeV aims to preserve cultural heritage and history as we believe that by increasing our awareness and understanding of the past, we can build a better future for our community and for the generations to come. Creating a culture of remembrance is one of our main aims, since it is through our capacity to deal with and to accept our past that we might strengthen our collective values, promote peace, foster mutual understanding and look towards a better, shared future. A large part of this involves compiling and archiving human experiences of the past. We carry out surveys, conduct interviews and record the life stories of citizens who were actively involved in various historical events, as well as organising study-visits and research on specific sociological and historical issues in order to build a well-informed picture of the past.

Community Building, Active Participation & Social Inclusion

JKPeV aims to enhance community engagement and participation by building community spirit and creating a sense of place and belonging. To attain this goal, we organise community projects and activities that involve people from different age groups, cultural backgrounds and beliefs. Our activities include: campaigns promoting equality, understanding, social inclusion, and peaceful coexistence; volunteering actions, workshops, citizens’ meetings, presentations and discussions. We focus on current social issues at a local and European level with the aim of raising people’s awareness and of finding ways to tackle prejudices and misconceptions together.

Education, Training & Youth Work

JKPeV’s focal point is the personal, social and professional development of young people (over 18 years old), youth workers and educators, and of professionals from various disciplines through a combination of formal, non-formal and informal learning methods. JKPeV supports the development of innovative tools for the identification, documentation and validation of non-formal and informal learning. For this reason, we organise training sessions for youth workers and trainers, workshops for adults from different backgrounds, seminars, conferences, study visits, field trips and other educational activities which relate to entrepreneurship, creativity, social innovation, urban development, soft skills and communication.