Project Description

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European Rails of Peace (Eu.Ro.Pe) project is an itinerant youth exchange with a particular focus on promoting intercultural dialogue and European awareness among youth aged 18-25 from different ethnic communities in Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo, as well as among these youth and their peers from EU countries.

The initiative is aimed to promote the causes of intercultural dialogue, peace in the Balkans, European awareness and free youth mobility. Emphasis will be also given to the itinerant component of the project, all participants will share the experience to travel together by train as sustainable mean of transport – with InterRail pass to travel in Europe.

The project has been conceived by Marco Amici and Silvia Marcoccio and organized since 2006. Since 2009 the coordination of the project has been taken over by the EurosduVillage Italia Association in collaboration with the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

A large number of supporting international organizations and private companies have been involved for the successful realization of the project along the years. Among them: The Council of Europe; Eurail Group G.I.E; Context Travel; Agenzia Nazionale per i Giovani and European Commission DG for Education and Culture, Youth in Action programme; The World Bank Vice Presidency for Europe and Central Asia; The Austrian Government; Accor; UNMIK – United Nations Mission in Kosovo; The Cities of Vienna, Siena, Rome and Brussels, The Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe; The Diplomatic Academy of Vienna; AEGEE Leuven; Thomas Cook Publishing; Trenitaia, Attica Group; The European Union Federation of Youth Hostel Associations (EUFED); The International Youth Hostel Federation (IYHF); The Italian Federation of Youth Hostels (AIG); The French Federation of Youth Hostels (FUAJ), The German Federation of Youth Hostels (DJH); The Research and Documentation Center in Sarajevo, Kontra, Delta Generali; Intesa Sanpaolo; the World Youth Student & Educational Travel Confederation