Together e.V. is a laboratory for future visions of a fairer transnational society, where ideas are tested and implemented as model projects at home and abroad. Guided by our motto, The world is your home, our work transcends borders while maintaining a strong regional focus on Dortmund, the Ruhr region, and North Rhine-Westphalia. Currently, we are engaged in neighborhood development at our headquarters in Dortmund's Unionsviertel district and collaborating with our Portuguese and Spanish partners on youth projects centered around collective sponsorship, well-being, regenerative design and skills development.

Our projects see the transfer of knowledge between the global North and South as an overarching goal, be it at a local or international level. We want to learn from each other, counter entrenched patterns and beliefs, scrutinise and decode. Topics such as causes of flight, conditions of migration or resettlement, processing post-colonial heritage and unequal access to living and educational resources are of concern to us. With the understanding of centuries of exploitation in the history of the global South, we feel responsible for improving living conditions, not only for people who have been displaced.

Vite Joksaite

Vite was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, is a cultural manager and curator with 20 years of professional experience in intercultural project management, especially in building new participatory structures in the fields of social inclusion, creativity and sustainable development. Since studying cultural management and policy (MA) in her home town at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, she has initiated projects in public spaces, shopping streets, buildings of renowned institutions and railway stations. She studied at the Städelschule and at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Curatorial Studies (MA) and obtained a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Vite is currently active as a project manager for large scale projects leading intercultural teams in the association LABSA and the team of kitev.

She is board member of Together e.V. and coordinates the following projects: EU Youth projects Together we act!, Together: Youth Advocacy Media Action, Together for more resilient futures, the EU Cooperation project Regenerate to Receive, and the local project Unfolding perspectives.

Gianna Gardeweg

Gianna was born in Germany, and is community developer and human rights activist. She studied architecture and specialized in participatory urban planning. Convinced that we have to create new visions and make them tangible in order to spread them, a special focus is on self-build projects and other formats in which the most diverse people can meet at eye level. As part of the socio-cultural initiative kitev, she was primarily involved in the joint development with newcomers of one part of the Oberhausen main station into a community hub. While and after taking part in the Master program Human Rights and Democratization of the Global Campus of Human Rights, she focused on the interconnection between law and space in EU asylum and integration policies.

She is board member of Together e.V. and coordinates the following projects: EU Youth projects Together we act!, Together: Youth Advocacy Media Action, Together for more resilient futures, and the EU Cooperation project Regenerate to Receive.

Najila Turabi

Najila is volunteer of Together e.V., part of Together we act! and Together for more resilient futures, and active in fundraising.

Ketevan Mtvarelidze

Ketevan is volunteer of Together e.V., part of Together we act! and Together: Youth Advovacy Media Action, and active in social media.

Svitlana Iziumska

Svitlana is volunteer of Together e.V. and active as photographer.

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