The Active Remembrance Youth Programme (ARYP) comprises nine different youth exchange events throughout Europe. The project is organised by Liberation Route Germany and runs from 2024 to 2026. It is funded by the EU and includes partners from the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Poland, France, Italy and the Czech Republic.
The aim of the project is to actively involve and inspire young Europeans from different backgrounds to explore and commemorate the Second World War from different perspectives. Through a series of youth encounters, participants will visit significant World War II sites across Europe and engage with history first-hand. This immersive experience encourages active learning, including conducting interviews, curating historical content and creating podcasts and videos, all of which will feed into an online exhibition.
In October 2025, a youth exchange week took place in the Oder-Warthe region. 18 young people from all over Europe learnt about the special history of our region at locations such as Slonsk, Kostrzyn nad Odra, Seelow, Klessin and Berlin-Karlshorst. Their task was to reflect on this history in podcasts and videos, to scrutinise it in interviews and to interpret it from their own perspective.
The youth exchange week in the German-Polish border region was organised by the Liberation Route Europe in cooperation with the Liberation Route Poland, the Liberation Route Germany and the city of Seelow, funded by the European Union. The preliminary programme and further information can be found at https://www.lre-youth.eu.
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