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||PROJECT|| "Poviat road to educational success"

High school students from Świdnica, Strzegom and Świebodzice spent May and June visiting interesting cultural and natural places in Lower Silesia. Trips organized by the "Krzyżowa" Foundation as part of the "Poviat road to educational success" project tooke place to such places as: Arboretum in Wojsławice, Książ Castle, Colorful Lakes in Rudawy Janowickie, tourist routes in Świeradów, the Walimskie Drifts, Church of Peace in Świdnica, ZOO , The National Museum, the Jewish Cemetery, Hydropolis in Wrocław and Krzyżowa Foundation.

Students benefited from organized workshops, activities and guided tours. In total, over 30 trips tooke place during one month, in which nearly 1,500 students took part. The aim of the away-from-home activities was to arouse students 'interest in various fields, which result in the improvement of students' key competences and, consequently, obtaining better learning outcomes.

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The 18th Seminar of Memorials of Eastern and Western Europe in Krzyżowa - for the first time as an online event - turned out to be a success again

For the eighteenth time, the Krzyżowa Foundation invited to the Seminar of Memorials of Eastern and Western Europe. After the seminar in 2020, shortly before the scheduled date, had to be canceled due to a pandemic, the Krzyżowa Foundation together with other project partners decided to move the event to the virtual space in 2021.

Due to this change, it was decided to shorten the four-day event to two days. On 25 and 26 March employees of memorial sites, museums and research institutions from Eastern, South-Eastern and Western Europe were invited to discuss the topic “Virtual Memory. Memory Places and Digital Media ”.

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Series of online workshops "Krzyżowa invites to creativity". Part 4: Cotton jewelry - new life for fabrics. Upcycling as an approach to handicrafts [video]

Series of online workshops "Krzyżowa invites to creativity". Part 4: Cotton jewelry - new life for fabrics. Upcycling as an approach to handicrafts

Liubov Shynder, MDSM Krzyżowa

We invite you to watch the last episode of our series of online workshops „Krzyżowa invites to creativity", which present the approach of the International Youth Meeting Center to artistic education.

Step by step, in the form of films, we present four different artistic methods that combine elements of upcycling and thus show how to create art in accordance with the care for the natural environment.

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||REPORT|| Online meeting: The condition of public life in Poland [audio]

Are we a society open to dialogue? How does political polarisation affect our lives? What practical steps could we take to strengthen our sense of community?

On 1 June, a meeting with Wawrzyniec Smoczyński took place, under the title: "The condition of public life in Poland".

The meeting was attended by over 80 people.

It was the first of a series of meetings organised as part of the project 'Laboratory of Dialogue' carried out by the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe together with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Poland.

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