Johannes Rau International Center for Education and Exchange (IBB Minsk) was opened on September 4, 1994.
For 25 years, IBB Minsk has been implementing projects in the fields of memory culture, sustainable development, education and media. Among the well-known initiatives are:
- Historical workshop named after Leonid Levin.
The main objectives of the Historical Workshop are to help and support the surviving victims of Nazi tyranny, to develop and implement historical education programs and to support new trends in the study of the military history and occupation of Belarus in Belarusian and German historiography.