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Music education workshops with elements of music therapy in the kindergarten "Green Land"

In September, the "Green Land" kindergarten held its first music education workshop with elements of music therapy.
During the music therapy classes were used primarily

• Creative music therapy methods and techniques,
• various techniques of active listening to music
• and relaxation techniques.

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School exchange Środa Śląska - Saterland, 17-22.09.2023

41 young people from Środa Śląska and Saterland spent 6 days in Krzyżowa as part of a Polish-German meeting of young people from partner cities. The meeting took place from 17.09 to 22.09, and its program was extremely diverse, intensive and dynamic. There were language and integration workshops, hiking in the mesmerizing Ślężański Landscape Park, a visit to a school in Środa Śląska and learning about the city's history.

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Krzyżowa Foundation Likhtar - a beacon for Polish-German-Ukrainian youth exchanges

The Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe will be a partner of the PNWM in the project Likhtar/ Ліхтар. The project is aimed at female teachers, educators and specialists in formal and non-formal education involved in Polish-German-Ukrainian youth exchange. Likhtar will include networking meetings, trainings, consultations, among others.

The Likhtar/ Ліхтар project has been running at the German educational institution Bildungsstätte Bredbeck since April 2022. Likhtar brings together people involved in international youth work from Poland, Germany and Ukraine, motivates and strengthens to implement exchange projects during the Russian war against Ukraine.

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Dr Tomasz Skonieczny takes part in the partner meeting of the project 'Transcaucasian and Visegrad Nations Common Memory', 20-21.09 Tbilisi.

On 20-21 September, in the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi, the first partner meeting of the project "Transcaucasian and Visegrad Nations Common Memory - Occupants or Liberators? Democracy or Tyranny?" is being held.

The aim of the project it to bring the experiences of Armenians and Georgians closer together and juxtapose them with events that took place in Central Europe.

Krzyżowa Foundation will be represented by Dr Tomasz Skonieczny, Deputy Head of the European Academy.

This project is being carried out in 2023-24 in Armenia, Georgia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, as part of a grant from the International Visegrad Fund.

Krzyzowa Foundation partners are Post Bellum (Czech Republic), Post Bellum SK (Slovakia), Terra Recognita Alapítvány - A közép-európai párbeszédért (Hungary), Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (Georgia) and ‘Hazarashen’ Armenian Center for Ethnological Studies (Armenia).

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