The 45th International FICE Congress

Will be held at „Humboldt-University"in Berlin-Mitte. The conference venue is located in the city centre, next to the Reichstag Building, the Brandenburg Gate and the new Federal Chancellery. Take the FICE Congress as an opportunity to visit Berlin and lakes around it Get to know the new, culturally prospering capital of the united Germany!
Under the auspices of Dr. Christine Bergmann, Federal Minister for the Family, Senior citizen, Women and Youth will take place the congress

In the thicket of the cities

Young people and their families in the metropolitan areas of the world

Growing up in urban areas

In recent decades increasing urbanization has dramatically changed
conditions of development for children and young people all over the world.
Overcrowding complicates already difficult social problems, and the stress
of growing up in cramped metropolitan areas grows worse and worse. In
response to such conditions, innovative pedagogical methods and alternative
forms of social management are now crucially necessary.

The Congress explores these problems and tensions for young people in urban
areas everywhere. It offers an international comarison of the widely
varying forms of educational support for youth in such places. In
addition, the Conference presents studies of specific examples of
educational assistance as currently practiced in different nations, and
brings together experts on these issues from every corner of the globe.

The result will be a pool of thought on pedagogical and methodological
approaches to helping children and young people worldwide. Social and
ecological problems and their potential solutions will be discussed,
including alternative approaches to dealing with local institutions
invloved with youth, such as the police, schools, and housing agencies.
Thus, the Conference seeks to produce practical models of international
cooperation for use in helping the young throughout the world.

F.I.C.E. is an organisation working for more than 50 years primarily for children, adolescents, and families on the fringes of society, who are at risk of becoming excluded. It focuses in particular on young people who need help to survive, to maintain or regain their health, and who need help with their education, the search for work and for integration.

Supporting these children and adolescents and undertaking a cooperative search for ways and means of securing social participation and social action even under the conditions of an individualised mass society, is to be the central theme of the Berlin Congress of FICE.
We expect around 800 participants from all European countries, from the United States and Canada, from Israel and Australia, from many African countries, and from a number of Asian and South American countries. These participants are professionals who work in institutions, schools, counselling centres, nonresidential services, and in youth and family welfare offices providing or organising support for disadvantaged or disabled young persons. Speakers will also include experts in the fields of social planning, urban development, and social politics from many countries.
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You are cordially invited to actively participate in the FICE Congress/National Conference of IGfH 2002. Please, send your proposal for a work group, a workshop or a project presentation no later than 30.09.2001 to "Organisationsbüro FICE 2002":

Neustrelitzer Str.57, D-13055 Berlin
Fax +49-(0)30-971018140, e-Mail info@fice-congress2002.de