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Artist in Residence Programme - 2023 edition

The Artistic Council of the Konrad and Paweł Jarodzki Artist-in-Residence Programme (Bożena Grzyb-Jarodzka, Renata Jarodzka, Rafał Jarodzki, Anna Kudarewska, Zbigniew Libera, Dorota Monkiewicz, Ruth Noack, Joanna Sokołowska, Vera Zalutskaya) has selected artists to participate in the upcoming edition of the programme in September and October 2023. The work of the Council is supported by the Permanent Guests: Maryna and Michal Czaplinski. Joanna Sokolowska is the curator of the programme.

The following artists have been selected for the programme: Ulufer Çelik, Daniel Mikulski, Andrea Pichl, Jacek Zachodny.

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There is good news again from Krzyżowa!

On 3 April 2023, the The ‘Krzyżowa’ Non-Public In-Service Teacher Training Centre started its activities! 

The main objective of the institution is to develop the competence of male and female teachers in the field of knowledge and skills necessary in the educational system.

The main objective of the institution is realised through more specific activities, namely:

• raising the quality of education,
• improving the professional qualifications of male and female teachers and increasing their knowledge and skills,
• developing the education and in-service training of teachers,
• strengthening creative attitudes of teachers and inspiring them to undertake innovative actions,  
• activities for teachers' own development,
• improving didactic and educational work methods.

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Meetings of the Supervisory Board and Foundation Council

This weekend (21-22.4.2023) the Supervisory Board and the Foundation Council met to discuss and conclude the year 2022 and to look to the future. We would like to thank all the people who travelled to Kreisau and all those who attended online.

New Supervisory Board

For the Supervisory Board it was the last meeting in this composition, as the five-year cadence came to an end. On Saturday 22 April 2023, the Foundation Council elected the Supervisory Board for the new term, consisting of Dr Grzegorz Warzocha (Chairman), Dr Annemarie Franke ( Vice-Chairwoman), Sabine Krüger, Klaus Prestele, Konrad Schampera, Rafał Szafraniec.

The former chairpersons, Dr Benedikt Scheiders and Dr Agnieszka Łada-Konefał were given a ceremonial farewell. Speeches of thanks were given by Dorota Krajdocha, board member of the Kreisau Foundation, as well as Dr. habil. Robert Żurek, as well as the Chairman of the Foundation Board, Prof. Dr. Waldemar Czachur.

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What did the fall of communism and political transition look like in Armenia and Georgia? A new historical project

History of the functioning and collapse of the communist system in Central and Eastern Europe is relatively* well known. But what do we know about the communist period in Caucasus countries? What was everyday life like for the inhabitants of the Soviet republics there? What was the course of the political transformation after the collapse of the USSR in 1991?

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