Seminars

Our educational work

Past

Alongside our project partners, the ESJF and the Foundation for Jewish Heritage, we organised seven interactive training seminars for 250 teachers in seven countries in 2020. The seminars conducted by Centropa within the project are open to educators, multipliers in formal and non-formal education, and NGO representatives from Slovakia, Croatia, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, Ukraine, and Georgia.

During the seminars, participants work in small groups, where they use materials and databases by the ESJF and Centropa to create lesson plans and extra-curricular projects relating to Jewish cemeteries. This approach encourages participants to increase their cross-cultural competencies by sharing their knowledge, skills, and creativity with each other. After each seminar, we collect the lessons on Jewish cemeteries developed by the participants to share them with other teachers on our project website.

Present

In 2022, a total of six seminars will be held in Slovakia, Georgia, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania and Moldova. The seminars will take place in May, June and July. Based on the experience of the 2020 seminars, we will invite secondary school educators to participate in our on-site educational events, which will include visits to cemeteries and hands-on workshops with experts.

Furthermore, seven online workshops, one for each country, will be scheduled.

For more details, please see the information boxes on this page.

International seminar in Krakow, 23 + 24 August 2020

Centropa and ESJF (European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative) in cooperation with the Galicja Jewish Museum organized a joint two-day training seminar for 30 teachers from Poland which took place from August 23-24, 2020 in Kraków.

The training seminar allowed participants to learn about Jewish cultural heritage in Poland from renowned experts. Furthermore, the participants were introduced to Centropa‘s educational tools, examined Polish-Jewish history in Kraków, took a closer look at the local Jewish cemetery and synagogue, and carried out small-group work sessions on how to develop lesson plans and projects for both classroom and extracurricular use.

We want to thank our supporters at the European Commission and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation for making this seminar possible.

You can find the program here.

Centropa and ESJF (European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative) in cooperation with the Galicja Jewish Museum organized a joint two-day training seminar for 30 teachers from Poland which took place from August 23-24, 2020 in Kraków.

The training seminar allowed participants to learn about Jewish cultural heritage in Poland from renowned experts. Furthermore, the participants were introduced to Centropa‘s educational tools, examined Polish-Jewish history in Kraków, took a closer look at the local Jewish cemetery and synagogue, and carried out small-group work sessions on how to develop lesson plans and projects for both classroom and extracurricular use.

We want to thank our supporters at the European Commission and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation for making this seminar possible.

You can find the program here.