Positive Nett-Works e.V.

Head of the Organisation: 
Joy Lohmann
Contact Person (1): 
Heiner Benking, 2. Vorsitzender
Address: 
Alte Döhrener Str. 62
City: 
30173 Hannover
Country: 
Germany
Telephone (1): 
0511 9887603
Telephone (2): 
030 - 70126838
E-mail (1): 
info@p-n-w.net
E-mail (2): 
heiner@benking.de
Year of establishment: 
1997
Member Organisation Type: 
Non-Governmental Organization
Fields of Activity: 
Others
General Information: 

Positive Nett-Works e.V. (PNW) as non-profit organisation initiates cultural and educational events and performances, and works in the field of alternative media to connect youth sharing positive examples to save the environment and foster international understanding and cooperation. It maintains a flexible structure with core members and variable project teams. Partners include schools, regional authorities and associations depending on the projects in progress. Main themes are public capacity building in areas such as intercultural, inter-religious understanding, inter-faith dialogues, environmental and arts education.
Support is received through public funding & foundations, municipalities and partners. Actions include projects like dialogues, seminars, and cross-media new-projects also internationally. They include the facilitation of youth symposia, environmental campaigns, and local intercultural community events or children festivals.
Main partners over the years included the City of Hannover, the local newspaper Hannoversche Allgemeinen Zeitung, the FEZ-Berlin (Europe’s largest non-profit Children, Youth, & Family Center).

Mission and Objectives: 

Positive Nett-Works e.V.’s mission is to apply the arts and innovative forms of communication for socio-cultural capacity building to address intercultural concerns in society. Activities support cultural youth projects to include the arts more prominently and create public awareness in the fields of environmental protection and social cohesion.
By using games, activities&performances, and community dialogue processes participants are lead to find common ground and trust and enjoy shared activities. PNW organizes various forms of educational encounters, for example “cultural creative” salons, where youth, decision-makers, citizens, and artists meet for creative round table dialogues. The main objective here is to support dialogue, deliberation and peacemaking processes. Another special focus lies on using modern media tools that involve and assist users to create their own media and platforms. Already before EXPO 2000 in Hannover PNW created projects in public spaces for raising awareness for issues about cultural, social, and environmental concerns.

Main Projects / Activities: 

Selection from projects between 1997-2009:
* Future Raft, this ‘Swimming Future Classroom’, co-created by youth and NGOs, travelled 300 kms from Hannover to Berlin www.joy-art.de/inart/gallery-future-raft.html
* future-islands: floating solutions for climate-change related problems http://future-island.eu www.joy-art.de/asap/fi.html
* Youth Leader, dynamic online magazine built to amplify the creative power of people, groups and organizations internationally www.youth-leader.org, also with
N+Radio with Argentina’s Noticias Positivas: Visit www.noticiaspositivas.org
* Open-Forum - facilitating youth and cultural events since the mid 90ies by using established and new conferencing and dialog formats, see for example Youth of Europe or Ganztagsschulkongress:
http://open-forum.de/events/NeuesEuropa.html - http://open-forum.de/events/Ganztagsschulen.html
* Local Children and Youth Media Projects to develop media competences. One product was for example a „Leinekunst Children’s Newspaper“ in co-operation with the Wissenschaftsladen Hannover e.V., and YouBe e.V. www.leinekunst.de/positivenews
* WATER, On occasion of an expert Round Table on Water, we have published a Humanity4.0 Special Edition on WATER, http://pnyv.org/water