KONRAD ADENAUER STIFTUNGL

Dedicated to the Memory of the Politician-Visioner
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung is one of the five political foundations in Germany. This respectable foundations which has the name of the most popular German chancellor, has 80 offices abroad and it implements projects in 100 countries. In Macedonia it has been active since 2000 and the office in our country is responsible for implementing the Foundation’s activities in Albania.

- “One of our activities is the organizing of study visits with a political purpose in Germany. In April 2001 we organized a study leave aimed for young people and in December a visit of women who are active in politics and the non-governmental movement. Our activities include the two summer schools in Macedonia – one in Ponikva, for the Children’s Parliament, whose subject was the functioning of the political systems and the other one in Oteshevo, aimed for young journalists”, told us Mr. Andreas M. Klajn, the official representative of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Macedonia.

In December 2000 the Foundation organized several lectures and seminars in six Macedonian towns in cooperation with the Women Organizations Union in Macedonia, as part of the International campaign against violence towards women, in the event of the International year of volunteering, together with the Municipality administration of Kochani, UNDP and the Agency for sport and young people it organized the manifestation “Market of possibilities”. The aim of this manifestation was to display the possibilities of the civic engagement in the social life.

One of the Foundation’s activities is also the support of the project of NIK List, so a seminar took place in the Old Skopje Bazaar as a model for peaceful co-life between the different nationalities in Skopje.

It is also worth mentioning the Foundation’s publishing activities where the book of the great politician-visioner Konrad Adenauer has been published in Macedonian.

M. Ivanova