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Webinar "Fake news and corona" - 14.04.2020, online (PHOTO)

Democracy today begins on the smartphone: every day we are overwhelmed with information about Corona through various channels, such as What's app, Messenger, Instagram etc. So it is not so easy to distinguish facts from fake news. Fake news and Corona shake hands here.

On April 14th almost 20 students* of the German language school from Siedlce took part in our webinar on the topic of Fake News #wewanttoknow. Together we discussed current news and thought about who benefits from Fake News. Why are fake news dangerous for democracy and how can we check news for theirs before we send them on?

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Language emergency - help in learning Polish for students with migration experience

For the duration of distance education in schools, the International Youth Meeting Center of the Krzyżowa Foundation launches E-CONSULTATIONS - help for students with experience of migration.

• Do you have a problem in learning caused by insufficient knowledge of the Polish language? - Use a language emergency!
• Do you have a student in your class who is unable to learn due to language reasons? - Tell him or her about our support options!

Every Wednesday from 10.00 to 14.00 schoolchildren can take advantage of language consultations conducted by a teacher of Polish as a Foreign Language.

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Pandemic and German-Polish relations | Agnieszka Łada

The current crisis will affect most areas of our lives. It will also affect German-Polish relations. It may turn out to be a big challenge for them, but, like any change, it may also have a creative element in some areas. This is not the time for crystal-ball gazing, what, when and how exactly something will happen in the Polish-German relations. There are more questions than answers. But in order to be able to look for solutions to the problems that will arise in the future - the one that is closer and a little bit farther away - it is possible to name them today, even if only by calling their respective areas.

A force in the Community or an escape into nationalism?

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Between yesterday and tomorrow - a crisis that can become an opportunity | Robert Żurek

Recently, I looked into the report from the February’s Foundation Board meeting. We planned in detail  a very promising year there - with a record number of projects and visitors. We even complained a bit that a very busy period is appearing on the horizon while we were hoping to slow down after the jubilee year.

Now, just a few weeks later, this report is read like a document from a distant, alien world. Instead of planning how to use resources most efficiently so that our team is not overloaded with managing a large number of projects, we are thinking about how to save the Foundation from imminent collapse.

Between March and June, 69 multi-day projects were to take place in Krzyżowa, in which nearly 3,000 people were to participate. Mostly they were Polish-German school exchanges. All these meetings had to be canceled in consequence of a coronovirus pandemic.

Read more: Between yesterday and tomorrow - a crisis that can become an opportunity | Robert Żurek