The seminar coaches of Europa-Kontakt Akademie have come together during their European work. Like-minded and united in their enthusiasm for Europe, the share their experiences and knowledge with the seminar participants form European countries and give impulses for project work, enable encounters in the group and with colleagues from Greece.

The city has been a hub and an intersection of different cultures and religions for centuries: Romans, Greeks, Macedonians, Ottomans, Orthodox and Roman Christians as well as Jews have all left their traces. In this vibrant, cosmopolitan city, history and the European present can be lived and experienced. In the seminar programme, the history of Judaism in Thessaloniki is the starting point and example for remembrance and commemoration work in European projects.