Back to the roots
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Back to the roots is an Austria
n exchange program. A group of fifteen young Israel
is who have Austrian family roots are invited to Austria and together with fifteen young local Austrians do genealogical
research about their ancestors and sometimes travel to the places where those ancestors lived.
Even though the emphasis lies on finding out information about the families of the visiting Israelis, another aim of this project is to develop Austrian-Israeli friendships and diplomacy. This includes sightseeing of cities as well as several free days, in which the young people can decide on their own what they wish to do.
This program enables the Israelis to develop their own and individual relationship to Austria and also help all the participants to regard Austria respectively from the view of "the other one".
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n exchange program. A group of fifteen young Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
is who have Austrian family roots are invited to Austria and together with fifteen young local Austrians do genealogical
Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...
research about their ancestors and sometimes travel to the places where those ancestors lived.
Even though the emphasis lies on finding out information about the families of the visiting Israelis, another aim of this project is to develop Austrian-Israeli friendships and diplomacy. This includes sightseeing of cities as well as several free days, in which the young people can decide on their own what they wish to do.
This program enables the Israelis to develop their own and individual relationship to Austria and also help all the participants to regard Austria respectively from the view of "the other one".