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How can history help us build a better future? This was one of the questions explored by people from different generations and backgrounds at the EUSTORY Past Forward Festival in Hamburg. The Timeout Foundation joined the festival to bring people together through Timeout Dialogues.

The Timeout Dialogues held as part of the Finnish Government’s new inclusion pilot brought the views of children and young people into state-level preparation work and decision-making. The aim of the pilot is to build a permanent operating model through which the views of children and young people can be taken into account more systematically in the work of ministries.

The DIACOMET project has come to an end, resulting in the publication of several materials and tools focused on communication ethics. The three-year project explored ethical questions in communication within a changing media environment and sought ways to strengthen responsible and dialogic interaction across Europe. As part of the project, a total of 87 Timeout Dialogues were held across the continent.

The joint project Scouts, Peace and Security, led by the Guides and Scouts of Finland, the Nepal Scouts, and the Timeout Foundation, strengthens the voices of young people in Nepal and promotes peacebuilding skills through the Timeout Dialogue method. During the project, 64 youth-led Timeout Dialogues were organized, with decision-makers joining the conversations as equal participants.

Workshop in IAEVG conference brought together career practitioners around the globe to explore human and more-than-human entanglement in guidance. Timeout dialogue turned out to be a thought-provoking method to rethink together how supporting educational paths and careers could and should be done in the times of ecological crises. In this blog post, Sara Peltola shares her experiences and reflections from the workshop.

Iina, Minna, Terhi and Pirjo from the Police University College (Polamk) opened up about their experiences with the Timeout-method from the perspective of different projects in the police. In this diablog, we get to hear how the Timeout-method has been used in projects like the social communication of the police, the fight against organised crime and the pre-trial investigation of human trafficking offenses.