2. Day – Symi – Rasmus, you old turnip pig
Today, we can thank the wind god Rasmus for giving us moderate winds and a lot of sunshine for our first day of sailing.Angelica, one of our skippers on the ship and our sailing companion, yelled the old sailor’s prayer in German: “Rasmus, altes Rübenschwein, gib uns mäßig Wind und reichlich Sonnenschein.” She then passed…
Read More1. Day – Rhodes – it’s the little things
Stones and the sunset… maybe not the sun as it’s gigantic, but enjoying the sunset together, waiting to set sail.We spent today exploring the ancient city of Rhodes, beginning to share our ideas and finding a direction for the time we’ll spend on the boat.Living the small moments together is what joins us as a…
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS About the project The participants of the summer school, organized by the Hans Farmont Foundation, are invited to spend time with young people from Europe on a ten-day sailing trip in Greece and Turkey. On the foundation’s sail boat, the fellows receive the opportunity to realise a project idea concerning Europe, to…
Read MoreDay 6 – still online
After roughly a month we are coming back together – still online, still figuring out what is ahead of us. Since today’s aim is to make it more clear, what we want to work on during our time on the boat, we are collecting topics and tools that we want to use and discuss first…
Read More6. Meeting – Creating a project plan
We finally met again one month after our 5-day online forum. In the last meeting, we decided that we would be working on a project together, but we still did not know what that project would be, so today we presented our ideas to each other. After exposing our thoughts, we ended up agreeing on…
Read MoreDay 5 – Lack of Leadership
During the last session of the summer school the topic discussed was “Lack of Leadership in EU Institutions – Looking for a better framework for common decision-making” The EU has entered an era of transformation, facing challenges of a global scale and facing a rise in nationalism and populism and with the legitimacy of the…
Read MoreDay 4 – Human Rights and the Migrant and Refugee Crises
Topic: ‘Human Rights and the Migrant and Refugee Crisis: Treatment of asylum-seekers in Europe’ The keynote speech focused on exploring how the EU has dealt with the large numbers of asylum seekers entering or attempting to enter its space from 2015 until today. The general framework to which it was connected was the dilemma between…
Read MoreDay 3 – What is Europe?
What is Europe? For citizens of EU member states the EU is often equal to Europe and vice versa. However, Europe spans further and covers European countries that made the deliberate choice to either stay out of the EU from the very beginning, such as Switzerland, or leave in tge process, such as the UK.…
Read MoreDay 2 – Bubbles and Collaborations
We are diving into critical discussions, questions of self-reflection about privilege and ideas for sustainable change. After focussing on philosophical and anthropologist approaches to the definition of collaboration and being more than just an individual in a sealed and closed space, but rather always being a part of bigger pictures, encounters and relations with other…
Read MoreDay 1 – First look and many questions
Today was our first meeting on the sailing ship called “Zoom”. After introducing ourselves and our houseplants we started the meeting with a little game to break the ice. We searched for an object in our room that represented our idea of being European. It became very clear that all of us had very different…
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