Forum «Youth of Cultural Capitals» 2019

in the framework of twin partnership between Hamburg and Saint-Petersburg

Our Idea:

To conduct Youth Forum between Saint-Petersburg and Hamburg for joint team migrants (with German citizenship) and the indigenous

Our Purposes:

    • Integrate young migrants to the new for them society
    • Inspire them with energy and enthusiasm on, self-developing in the society, providing them with different opportunities and perspectives
    • Form thinking free from stereotype and prejudices about migrants in their country as well as about country of city-partner

Saint-Petersburg and Hamburg have massive migration streams of people, with their own different cultural experience, own communication ways, own live pace. According to our research, main problem of young migrants in a new society becomes cultural barrier. They perceive their culture as “white” and new one as “black”. Thus, they start resisting to the integration, and moving away from social life and live in small groups of migrants.


We, by the conducting youth forum, team work, creating joint project in groups, consisting of young migrants as well as the indigenous youth, want to show them that there are not only ‘’white’ and ‘black’, but green, blue, red…: Integrate young them to the new for them society, Inspire them with energy and enthusiasm on, self-developing in the society, providing them with different opportunities and perspectives. For the indigenous youth, form thinking free from stereotype and prejudices about migrants in their country as well as about country of city-partner