"Welcome to the new (virtual) reality"
28.05.2020, Charlotte, Agnieszka Żegańska
Before we finally realize a project, months of hard work are already behind us.
Almost a year ago, we, the Krzyzowa Foundation and our partner, the Kreisau-Initiative e.V., won the NETTZ-Förderpreis. The awarded project was #CreatingSpace A digital future with ethics in mind. The starting point for the project was the reflection that we, as institutions of civic education, increasingly see the need of not treating civic education and digital competences as separate issues. However, it seems to us that it is necessary to work on expanding media literacy through inclusion of competences in the field of digital media ethics.
Thus, first we were awarded the price. Then it was followed by the successful launch event in December and our first event on digital ethics took place in Kreisau. Full of energy for action we then went into the conception to continue the project series in 2020. The participants* were recruited and the financing was secured, but then came Corona and the question was: Do we dare to do it online? YES!
After an organisational marathon and thanks to the flexibility of our sponsors, the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the participants*, the concept for the online training was ready after a few days of intensive work.
Now follows an interview with Agnieszka Zeganska and Charlotte Lohmann, both education specialists of the IYMC Krzyzowa, how they experienced the online training. The special thing about the interview is that it is conducted in German and Polish, because that is the reality in which the IYMC in Krzyzowa works. In our daily work we are surrounded by different languages every day, which tuck us up like a piece of clothing that people like to wear. One gets used to it and never wants to take it off.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Partners and Friends of Krzyżowa Foundation!
The coronavirus pandemic has brought with it a real threat to the existence of our Foundation. With the "freezing" of activities and the cancellation of almost all projects to be carried out in Krzyżowa in the first half of 2020, the Foundation was cut off a significant part of its incomes. We faced the perspective of dismissal of employees and even bankruptcy. To avoid the worst, we decided to take all possible measures: we reduced the salaries of the entire team, took advantage of the anti-crisis shield provided by the Polish government, reformulated some of the projects in order to implement them online, appealed to our partners and friends for help and asked for extraordinary support from the governments of Poland and Germany, whose political and financial support enabled the creation of the International Youth Meeting Centre 30 years ago.
Read more: Three months of the fight for survive is behind us. What will bring the future? Management Board...
On Thursday, 28 May, on the website and other Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung channels, you could watch a LIVE meeting with Dominik Kretschmann - head of the Memorial Site at the Krzyżowa Foundation. Thanks to the lesson, students from Germany had the opportunity to learn about the history of Krzyżowa, our Foundation and the people who created it.
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The 75th anniversary of the end of World War II is an opportunity not only to celebrate the victory over Nazi Germany and the beginning of peaceful coexistence of European nations, but also to raise the question of what exactly happened in 1945 and why that year was not for throughout Europe meant the end of the fighting and the beginning of the reconstruction of the country.
That is why the Krzyżowa Foundation, in cooperation with the Silesian Institute, has prepared an educational project addressed to school youth and teachers, whose aim is to present the broadest possible perspective of the events of 1945, showing similarities and differences in the history of Poland and neighboring countries - as well as between Western European (and American) and Central European memory about the end of World War II.
Read more: Educational project || (Non) peace 1945. What brought the end of World War II?
