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„BE THE CHANGE“, Ambassadors of the future
This project is a follow-up of the current ‘Small municipalities against euroscepticism – SMUG EU’. www.smug-eu.eu
Project has the goal to foster democratic engagement of citizens and spreading positivity in our society. I today’s life, we are all bombarded with negative information, especially through the media. We decided to counter this and spread only positivity through actions, campaigns and gatherings.
The focal point will be results gathered in the SMUG EU project and ideas all participants gave us (eurooptimism strategy).
In the SMUG EU project, euroscepticism was highly debated. Following this, we will act upon all given ideas and do some concrete work. Activities (given by people on SMUG EU debates) are :
- Designing and implementing a campaign (YouTube, magazine, web) where only positive news are being published about projects, solidarity, society, future….
- Events will be organized (competitions that test our knowledge of the EU, multicultural gatherings that focus on team spirit, solidarity and tolerance)
- Included will be local institutions to organize info-days and other
We are looking for new partners to include in our consortium and spread the projects’ impact.
Already included are Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Portugal, Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary, Macedonia and Croatia. So, we seek partners from the other countries – can be Spain, Italy, Slovakia, Austria…
Partners searched Countries
Spain, Italy, Slovakia, Austria or other
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Public authorities (municipalities and small cities) and various associations related to the theme.
The project will consist:
1. The project preparing meeting with the representatives of project-partners from Poland, Belarus, Russia and Czech Republic.
2. Development methodological and information materials about the “Polish operation” in three languages for free download on the web-page www.zawolnosc.eu and use during the conference meetings with young persons (in three languages: Polish, Russian and English)
3. Preparing the informational exhibition “Remember: Polish operation and the
Holocaust”. Europeans between two totalitarianisms”.
4. Preparation of a 1-day conference in Wroclaw upon the following topic: “Remember: Polish operation and the Holocaust”. Europeans between two totalitarianisms”.
5. Organizing the conference meetings with young persons, mainly school boys and school girls. We plan:
- 6 - 8 meetings in Poland;
- 1 – 2 meetings in Belarus;
- 1 – 2 meetings in Russia;
- 1 meeting in Czech republic.
We plan that participants of all meetings represent different countries.
6. (6) 01.11.2020–31.11.2020
Submitting financial and narrative project reports
The project will promote mutual understanding, friendship and tolerance between European nations: Poles, Russians, Belarus, Ukrainians, Germans, Lithuanians and the Jewish nation. Special attention will be paid to the young generations of these European nations. The project will be devoted to the memory of the “Polish operation” organized by the Stalin’s totalitarianism in the years of “great terror” (1937 – 1938) in comparison to the fate of other nationalities at that time. Out of about 1 000 000 Soviet Poles about 200 000 persons were annihilated by the Stalin’s secrete police - NKWD. This crime has all the traces of the
genocide and has many essential common features with the Holocaust. As one of survivors of the “Polish operation” admitted: “To be a Pole in the Soviet Union in 1938 is almost the same as to be a Jew in the occupied Europe during the second world war”. But as compared to the Holocaust the “Polish operation” is almost a forgotten event in the history of “Stalinism”, in the history of totalitarianism. The reason is the following. The Soviet Union won the war and all the crimes of the Stalinist system were thoroughly hidden by its perpetrators. Only the collapse of communism in 1991 permitted us to start the process of restoration of the historical memory of Europeans.
In the realms of our project we are going to organize 10 – 15 conferences at schools of Poland, Belarus, Czech republic and Russia on the topic of similarity between communist and Nazi atrocities in Europe. Conferences will include the presentation of the exhibition on this topic, showing the film about this and a lecture by a leading historian on this topic. The most important part of the project will be an open discussion between participants from different countries.
Role of the partner organization in the project
Active participation in preparing meeting (1) 01.09.2019–15.10.2019
Participation in development methodological and information materials about the “Polish operation” in three languages (2) 15.10.2019–15.01.2020
Participation in a 1-day conference in Wroclaw upon the following topic: “Remember: Polish operation and the Holocaust”. Europeans between two totalitarianisms”, inviting needed participants from the own country and involving mass media (4) 15.01.2020–30.04.2020
Participation in organising the conference meeting with young persons in your own country (6) 01.11.2020–30.11.2020 .