The second reunion of the Bremen-Gdansk NGO-Forum took place 30 June – 2 July 2006 in Gdansk. After several preparatory meetings of the Bremen group in Kulturzentrum Lagerhaus 19 German project participants who represented 11 organisations started their bus journey to Gdansk in the morning of 30 June at the central bus station of Bremen. When they arrived at the conference place in the evening they reunited with the 2 other participants from another organisation who had travelled by train. So it was a total of 21 German people representing 12 organisations who met their Polish partners (the project manager on the Bremen side, Frauke Rubart, her colleague from the EuropaProjektWerkstatt, Gregor Straube, and the project photographer Gerd Röhlke included). The managing director of Kulturzentrum Lagerhaus, Bernd Scheda, represented this institution and its hostel project as well. Some other participants could not take part in this group journey but had visited their Gdansk “tandem partners” earlier on their own. The aim of the second meeting of the HB-GD NGO-Forum was to continue the negotiations of the bilateral project tandems and to intensify the respective cooperation. Thanks to Marek Swieczkowski, Joanna Swieczkowska and Krzysztof Kosmowski from Pomeranian Foundation Sunflower (Pomorska Fundacja Slonecznik) as well as to all other people in Gdansk who helped make also the second Polish-German get-together to a successful and thriving happening.

The results of the talks are documented in the protocols which you can find when you get on the point “ngo/projects” of this website. Thanks to Gerd Röhlke who made almost all the nice photos which you can see there and here below where they illustrate the course of the whole event, to start with a picture of the planning session on 30 March 2006 in Kulturzentrum Lagerhaus (Frauke Rubart, Angelika Zollmann, Bernd Scheda).