civic – Cyfrowi humaniści / Digital humanists

Space to grow

agakud — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 19:48:00 +0000

Why growth is so important? Lack of growth leads to stagnation. Obsession of innovation is the other extreme. On June, 11 (2015) I participated on lectures dedicated to growth and space to growth within an independent Ted event. The event had a title „Space to grow”. I especially enjoyed the lectures of Magdalena Kozłowska-Deć, Hoang Minh Ngo and Dawid Sokołowski.

*Magdalena Kozłowska-Deć – works with women within Fundation Center of Women Promotion (Fundacja Centrum Promocji Kobiet) and within the biggest Polish festival of development PROGRESSteron, co-author of book for retired women about organisation of events („Przygoda nie tylko dla wnuka”).

*Hoang Minh Ngo – IT worker, certified interpreter, social activist from Vietnam; board member of Social-Cultural Association of Vietnameses in Poland (Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Wietnamczyków w Polsce), editor of paper Que Viet; organiser of demonstration against politics of hegemony of China.

*Dawid Sokołowski – leader of the network of reasonable business. More about the network you can find here.

The 90s: American Peace Corps in Poland

agakud — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 12:36:00 +0000

Did you know that the volunteers of the American Peace Corps were working also in Poland? I worked on a one-year documentary project about their work. Effects of the project are a bilingual publication and a bilingual Web-presentation: www.korpus.karta.org.pl (pl) and http://korpus.karta.org.pl/?lang=en (en). Some collected photos you can see here.

Teaching materials to human rights

agakud — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:24:00 +0000

Teaching human rights is a challenge for people from different fields and institutions. That’s why the Centre of Human Rights Education of the University of Teacher Education in Lucerne is organising the Human Rights Education Symposium in Lucerne. The topic of the Symposium in 2012 was the developing of teaching materials on human rights education. I took part on following workshops:

1. “Inklusion als Menschenrecht” Online Manual for Pedagogical Practice / Materials for Human Rights Education in simple Language (Dr. Claudia Lohrenscheit and Meike Günther, German Institute for Human Rights)
2. Toolkit Holocaust Education – Human Rights Education (Dr. Eva Sobotka, Equality and Citizens Rights Department, European Union Fundamental Rights Agency).

3. Human Rights Education (HRE)-Training for Civil Servants (Kirsten Roberts, Irish Human Rights Commission)

The programme of this Symposium you find here.

Civil society and civic life in Poland

agakud — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:53:00 +0000

To support relationships between nations the knowledge of journalists should be supported. Get to know this great initiative! Before the European Football Championship 2012 more than 20 journalists of different German media went to Warsaw, Kiew and Charkow to get to know more about the civic life in the countries and preparation to the Championship.
The journey was dedicated different non-governmental institutions and projects. The aim was to get a different and wide view on Polish and Ukrainian cities and Poland and Ukraine.

The German group went in Warsaw to the Ministry for Sport and Tourism, 3 ngo’s: and meeting of Polish journalists from different media at Stocznia. The visit in the Social Project 2012 and Batory Foundation were also important meetings while the trip.

More information in German: http://www.mitost.org/ueber-uns/euro-2012/euro-2012studienreise.html#c13956

Network of cultural and civic activists – MitOst

agakud — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:55:00 +0000

The Society MitOst is a living network of cultural and civic activists in Eastern and Central Europe. Every year member meet at different cities in the region. A member can be everyone, who is interested in the culture and civic life in the region. The meetings have the name „Festival” and have different topics. E.g. the 9th Festival of MitOst took place in České Budějovice from 28.9.2011 till 2.10.2011. The topic of this MitOst – Festival was new forms of engagement. There were many people who are engaged for a balanced life.

I also took part on some interesting workshops about engagement via Internet and readings and talks about East Central Europe.

Carmen Eller: „Ein Jahr in Moskau – Reise in den Alltag”, reading and discussion

More about the 11th MitOst-Festival you can find here: http://www.mitost.org/mitglieder/internationales-mitost-festival/festival-archiv/festival-2011.html (in German).

MitOst is 15 years old, that’s why the big cake! After eating the cake with some 200 hunderts other people at the Festival, we went to one of many concerts while the Festival…

After the 9th MitOst-Festival in České Budějovice some MitOst-members went to Český Krumlov. It is a small city in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic with fine architecture and art of the historic old town and Český Krumlov Castle. It should be also mentioned that the Old Český Krumlov is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The pictue shows also the Revolving Theatre, which is an amazing thing one should see.

Prague is the place where different ways are crossing and many members of the association MitOst could meet after of before the annual meeting event, the so-called „MitOst-Festival”. It is a very open city with some quite unusual monuments.

More about MitOst you can find here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MitOst.

Popularisation of democratic values by the Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg

agakud — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:09:00 +0000

The Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg was a funding programme of Robert Bosch Foundation. This collegue supported popularisation of democratic values among young people from East Central Europe. I was a member of the Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg from May 2005 till July 2006. The photos present the finish of the collegue in July 2006 in Berlin.

Training how to conduct a seminar

agakud — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:38:00 +0000

I recommend veryone to take part on trainings of every kind. Because I learnt to conduct an international seminar I took part on a training „How to conduct a seminar”, which was organised by Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg of the Robert Bosch Foundation.The training took place in February 2006 in Riga.

Eastern Europe on move

agakud — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:01:00 +0000

Project work is something very important for the personal development of young people. Students of Eastern and Central Europe could learn the project work in practice thanks to the Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg of the Robert Bosch Foundation. Me as a member of the Kolleg together with two other members conducted an German-Ukrainian-Polish seminar about Eastern Europe on the move in Toruń in March 2006.

discussion about migration, interview with employee of the Polish Humanitarian Action