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Webinar "Educational ecological garden in the permaculture approach" - 18.06.2020 (VIDEO)

In the first half of June 2020, in the relation to the garden being built on the premises of the "Krzyżowa" Foundation, there were workshops on designing an educational ecological garden in a permaculture approach.

The third and final part of the workshop is behind us: "Educational permaculture garden - design workshops". Working online, the participants had the opportunity to summarize the knowledge gained so far about the principles of permaculture design: collecting field data using their own observations and specific tools, working with maps and climate data. They used it to play the role of designers and present their vision of the garden in Krzyżowa.

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After the Webinar #TikTok

On Monday, 15 June, the webinar "TikTok: Between lip sync and political participation" took place. In the 70-minute webinar, the participants learned what TikTok is about and how trends, hashtags and challenges influence each other, also to understand why it has a great fascination especially for young people.

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The outdoor exhibition | „After the Great War. A New Europe 1918-1923”

The outdoor exhibition „After the Great War. A New Europe 1918-1923”, created by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS) in cooperation with an international group of historians, will be presented in Poland for the first time. From 18 June to 8 July 2020, it will be presented at Plac Wolności in Wrocław. The partner of this event is the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe.

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Do monuments provoke conflicts? Historian's perspective

The controversies that currently arises in the US and some Western European countries around monuments depicting former political leaders is an extremely important issue to follow. It says a great deal not only about how much we really know about the past (and thus about the quality of historical education), but also about how we approach commemorating it in public space today.

On this occasion, it is worth letting historians have their say and recommending a text prepared by Dr Tomasz Skonieczny, deputy head of the European Academy, on the subject of monuments, in which he pointed out, among other things: do monuments provoke conflicts?

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