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The Anne Frank House in cooperation with the Krzyżowa Foundation invites you to a webinar on counteracting homophobia among students using the Stories that Move educational tool. It will take place on 20th May 2021, from 17.00 - 18.15 in English. Entries are made via the form: https://bit.ly/3vQZCHo.

During the webinar, we will introduce the online learning tool and show you how to use moving stories from Stories that Move. They are interesting material to be used in classes with students on prejudice and discrimination. Using the stories of the young people, the trainers will introduce several ways to discuss these complex and delicate topics in the classroom.

Read more: Webinars Stories that move "International day against Homophobia and Transphobia"

It's been a busy week. From Thursday to Saturday (25-27th of February 2021), we had the pleasure to host the second workshop session as part of the International Essay Competition entitled "My Europe of Freedom". A total of 42 people from Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany participated in the history and literary workshops, of which 33 were young people aged 16-29 looking for an essay idea.

Historical workshops were conducted by: Dr. Tomasz Skonieczny ("Krzyżowa" Foundation), Andrea Böhm (Bildungswerk Sachsen) and Michael Urban. Literary workshops were conducted by Constanze John, Radosław Wiśniewski and Pavlína Hilscherova. The meeting, moderated by Adelajda Lebioda ("Krzyżowa" Foundation), was also an opportunity for an international exchange of thoughts on the events of the 1980s and 1990s, in the countries of the so-called Eastern Bloc. Everyone could share their reflection with others and thus answer the following questions: What reasons did society have to go out on the streets and fight against the system of that time? How do we view those events from today's perspective? What role did those events play on the way to the Europe we live in today?

Read more: ||REPORT|| My Europe of Freedom. International Essay Competition. Online ideas workshop -...

The Krzyżowa Foundation, together with the Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace in Israel, has just finished the first Polish-German seminar this year. "Meetings of Poles and Germans. Fac-ing Democracy's Challenges - those that are similar and those that are different”. The seminar was conducted online for 4 consecutive Mondays from 25.01. until 15.02. by the creator of the Bet-zavta method, Uki Maroshek-Klarman.

21 people took part in the seminar - teachers and educators who work with young people, often in the Polish-German context. The topics discussed were national identities in the context of working with international youth groups, issues of power and inequality, issues of stereotypes and attitudes to them, and issues of migration.

Read more: ||REPORT|| Polish-German online workshops using the Betzavt method - January - February 2021

We live in a system that in their assumptions often opposes the reality of life - the diversity of genders. Worldwide, we can observe a process of polarization, which is also taking place in relation to the issues of feminism, the concept of sociocultural gender or sexual orientation. Structural discrimination against women or those who are not heteronormative is increasing. To counteract existing structures, it is important to be aware of them and their consequences. The greater the exchange with different people, the greater the awareness of the limits we reach with our normative perspectives. 

Read more: ||REPORT|| Online training “Social Justice and Diversity” - 28.01-16.02.2021