News

Youth exchange Opole-Cottbus, 12-16.10.2023

From October 12 to 16, 2023r. Polish-German school exchange Cottbus - Opole took place.

20 students from Poland from PSP No. 7 in Opole and 18 students from Germany from the Schmellwitzer Oberschule school, aged 12 to 14, met at the Krzyżowa Foundation to take part in an intercultural school exchange for the first time.

Read more: Youth exchange Opole-Cottbus, 12-16.10.2023

The needs of young people and tasks for intercultural exchanges were discussed at a conference in Krzyżowa.

During three days of talks, workshops and group work, people participating in the Krzyżowa conference 'The future begins today...The new reality of international exchanges with the young in the lead role' tried to diagnose the challenges of the times of change and, above all, to develop solutions that would help optimise international youth meetings.

The diagnosis was helped by a workshop in which the topics of intercultural exchanges were looked at from a psychological, educational, geopolitical or technological perspective by such experts as:

dr Anna Kubiak - Psychologist, works with children and youth and their families in a systemic approach, assistant professor at the SWPS University in Poznań;

Prof. Dr. Jacek Pyżalski - researcher, pedagogue, trainer, professor at the Faculty of Educational Studies of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, works for modern, youth-friendly education;

Prof. Dr. Monika Sus - political scientist, associate professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences and visiting professor at the Centre for International Security at the Hertie School in Berlin, her research focuses on international politics, in particular the foreign, security and defence policy of the European Union;

Read more: The needs of young people and tasks for intercultural exchanges were discussed at a conference in...

Women in Resistance” - Female Stories Unheard. European Remembrance of Women in Resistance Against National Socialism

We invite you to participate in the project "Women in Resistance - Female Stories Unheard. European Remembrance of Women in Resistance Against National Socialism".
The project includes:
Three traveling meetings of young people from Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic.
An international essay contest in which the three best literary works, written in English, will receive a cash prize.
A prize-giving ceremony in Leipzig (October 2024).

Read more: Women in Resistance” - Female Stories Unheard. European Remembrance of Women in Resistance Against...

Matthias von Hülsen, initiator and general director of the Krzyżowa-Music Festival, received this year's Silesian Cultural Award

On Saturday (07.10.2023), the Silesian Cultural Award ceremony took place at the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw.
This year's winners were the director of the Krzyżowa-Music Chamber Music Festival, Matthias von Hülsen, well-known writer, Marek Krajewski, and writer and journalist, Karolina Kuszyk.

The awards were presented jointly by Lower Saxony's Minister of the Interior, Daniela Behrens, and Lower Silesia Regional Board Member, Krzysztof Maj.

Read more: Matthias von Hülsen, initiator and general director of the Krzyżowa-Music Festival, received this...