Back to the roots
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Back to the roots, also called Spurensuche, is a program from the Republic of Austria's well established exchange-project. Whereby a group of 15 young Israelis, who have Austrian family roots, are invited to Austria and together with 15 young local Austrians do research about their ancestors and sometimes travel to the places where those ancestors used to live.
Even though the emphasis lies on finding out information about the families of the Israelis, another aim of this project is to develop Austrian-Israeli friendships. This includes sightseeing of cities as well as several free days, in which the young people can decide on their own what they wish to do.
This program enables the Israelis to develop their own and individual relationship to Austria and also help all the participants to regard Austria respectively from the view of "the other one".
