With this project, we aimed to strengthen international cooperation and improve skills together with our partners. Social changes (digitalization, climate change, the trend towards polarization, growing diversification of the target group) challenge us to think more flexibly, to adapt previous formats, and to work together to find solutions. In a first step, we explored the meaning of humanistic values and their relevance for solving today's challenges. In a second step, we developed new approaches to reach young people with these messages. The focus was on user-centered project development, agile project management, digital tools, low-barrier/interactive/participatory projects, and transnational formats. The joint learning units and the sharing of experiences in the development and implementation of projects in the consortium led to further development of competencies regarding project management, blended learning formats, "green twinning" and evaluation methods.
In 2022, the Reuchlin Year was celebrated in Pforzheim/Germany. The important son of Pforzheim, Johannes Reuchlin, was part of a network of European humanists that also included Erasmus of Rotterdam. With their pathbreaking ideas and principles, they were pioneers of today's European values and still shape our understanding of education, freedom and humanity. How did these values and ideals arise, to what extent are they still relevant for us and our organizations today? Can they show us ways forward in today's world, where we are confronted with a multitude of challenges such as climate change, social inequalities and threats to our democracy? And especially, how can we find contemporary formats to introduce youth to these messages? What user-oriented methods and innovative tools are there to bring the relevance of humanistic values closer to young people? These were questions that we and our international partners in Vicenza/Italy, Osijek/Croatia and Czestochowa/Poland addressed in our project.