Maker Conference at the Start of Maker Movement

The applicant and partners will jointly organize a 1-day event on March 4, 2022 focusing on connecting all makerspaces and other maker initiatives in BiH to establish a single body that will be responsible for a maker movement in BiH. There will also be an online social campaign implemented in BiH and V4 countries. Project Webpage will be created at the beginning of the Project and will be a part of already existing web pages of the applicant and partners. The aim of the event and campaign is to inform young people about the maker movement, encourage them to take part and to inspire them to join the movement. https://maker.ba/

Seminar in Hungary

Centropa will bring together 40 teachers from the Visegrad countries, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus for an engaging 3-day training seminar. The seminar will feature: - interactive workshop by Centropa on "Using family photos from the Centropa oral history database to connect teenagers with local Jewish history" - lectures on the Jewish history of the region - interactive group work with the project website Transhistory; - Centropa film screenings on Jewish family stories from the V4 countries, followed by multilateral group work; - discussions with local NGO activists and historians; - excursions to local Jewish sites in the Wonder Rabbis region with historians; - presentations by delegations from each country on "How Jewish history is taught in my country". Through this range of seminar activities, participants will engage with each other, and learn not only about the Jewish history of Hungary, but also discuss ways how they can adapt the things they learned when they return to their classrooms. They will build personal connections to colleagues from their other countries, and be introduced to innovative pedagogical materials such as AudioWalks. www.centropa.org

Conference

The conference will take place in Novi Sad, Serbia, over the course of 9 days in March 2022. It will gather 180 participants (16–26) from over 30 European countries and 10 of their professors. They will take part in the detailed program prepared by the 55 volunteers using innovative methods of non-formal education, through a platform for multicultural exchange and dialogue. The topics discussed at the event will cover linguistic minorities, freedom of academia, integration of national minorities, religious pluralism, preservation of cultural heritage, green culture, artistic integrity, education systems, etc. These cultural issues will be the pillars supporting the overall academic concept and the vision for this event—Bridging the Culture Gap. https://www.facebook.com/bridgingtheculturegap