Background

Crossing Borders (CB) started its activities for Middle East youth and educators in October 1999. It developed out of the "Learning to Live Together in the Middle East" Project. This project started in 1994 as a summer seminar that held in Elsinore, between 1994 and 1998, for Arab and Israeli educators, teachers and journalists from Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. In response to increased demands for its activities and methods, CB was registered in Denmark as a non-profit NGO in 2004. Crossing Borders is located at Krogerup College in Humlebaek, to the north of Copenhagen. Krogerup is a Danish Folkehoejskole founded in 1946, following the divisive events of World War II, to promote democracy and active citizenship.

Since its foundation in 1999, Crossing Borders has received funding from the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the EU Partnership for Peace Programme, the EU Youth in Action Programme, the Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures, the EU Youth in Action Programme through the Danish National Agency, Hermod Lanung Foundation in Denmark, Politiken's Foundation and the Jylland-Post's Foundation. In addition, CB has received funding for specific activities from the Norwegian People to People Programme in Jerusalem, the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, UNESCO Participation Programme, SID (now 3F), the Danish Association for International Cooperation (MS) and the Copenhagen municipality.

Upcoming Events

• 14 - 10 May 2012
• ARTICITY: Art for Social Change, France

• 25 March - 6 April 2012
• DEMENA Climate Ambassadors Course

• 22 - 28 January 2012
• Intercultural Course, Berlin
  

• 16 - 27 January 2012
• Seconds of Life... What if..., Lithuania

• 8 January - 9 June 2012
• CB Global Studies Spring Term