Our Projects and Partners

Partner: Nansen Dialogue Network/ Nansen Academy – Lillehammer, Norway

Expert of the Foundation for Dialogue - Prof. Michalski has been cooperating since 2007 with Dr. Steiner Bryn, Head of Nansen Dialogue Network. Dr Bryn has been nominated together with the Nansen Network to the Nobel Peace Prize sevent times. He is Norwegian peace studies specialist who has, through the Nansen Academy, been involved in peace making educational initiatives in the Western Balkans since 1995.

In 1987 the Nansen Academy in Norway was awarded the Freedom of Expression Foundation Prize. In 1998, the Academy received Honourable Mention of the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education, in recognition of its contribution to the promotion of peace and tolerance. Senior Advisor of the Nansen Dialogue Network, Steinar Bryn and previous Director of the Nansen Academy, Inge Eidsvåg received Amalie Laksov's Fund for the Protection of Human Rights in 1999. Steinar Bryn received the Bridge-builder Prize 2004 for his contribution to confidence-building. In 2010 he received the Livia Prize – Prifest 2010 – LIVIA Fonden.

Steinar Bryn has lectured extensively about his experiences at Universities in Europe and the United States. He has previously participated in EEA supported projects in Poland. The most recent Polish-Norwegian project was: "A REFUGEE AT SCHOOL AND IN THE MUNICIPALITY", Góra Kalwaria, Poland. 

Partner: National Center for Culture in Warsaw and Foundation PZU    

ON-LINE EXHIBITION AND WORKSHOPS: "CULTURE IN HOMAGE TO THE HEROES OF THE HOLOCAUST: IRENA SENDLER AND THE ULMA FAMILY
At the onset of World War II, the Germans outlawed helping Jews, making it punishable by death in Poland. And not only the death of the one offering assistance, but the death of their entire family. Irena Sendler was well aware of the danger, but that didn’t stop her from risking everything to save the lives of over 2,000 Jewish children. Ulma family attempted to rescue Polish Jewish families by hiding them in their own home during the Holocaust. They and their 6 children were summarily executed by Germans on the 24 March 1944 for doing so.

ON-LINE EXHIBITION: "450th ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNION OF LUBLIN, THE MODEL FOR THE THREE SEAS POLICY – A MATEJKO PAINTING IN 3D”

Partner: Jewish Community of Stockholm

CONFERENCE: "JEWS AND CHRISTIANS WHO IS YOUR NEIGHBOUR AFTER THE HOLOCAUST” organised in Stockholms by the expert of the Foundation for Dialogue - prof. Michalski, former director of the Polish Culture Institute and Cultural Attache of Poland in Sweden.

Partner: Ministry of Education in Warsaw

WORKSHOP: "GIVE A CHANCE TO THE REFUGEE - Multicultural environment of the school”
The project aimed at preparing the staff of specialists in 4 poviats adjacent to the Centre for Foreigners in Grotniki, to work with refugees and contribute to the increase of intercultural competences of the local community.

WORKSHOP: "Let us meet – education in a multicultural environment”
The aim of the project was to support education initiatives in a multicultural environment of the school. The Project targeted 50 international and Polish students.  

Partner: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Warsaw and Foundation PZU

ON-LINE EXHIBITION: "VIRTUAL ‘HOMAGE OF PRUSSIA’ – HISTORICAL PAINTING BY JAN MATEJKO DECODED”
 The project consists in developing a scenario of cultural education classes based on innovative 3D virtual reality technology (Virtual Reality). 

Partner: Community of Raszyn, Poland

Several of our projects took place in Raszyn. We plan to turn AUSTERIA BUILDIND (XVIII/XIX Century former Jewish Inn, into INTEGRATION CENTER of the Raszyn Community). The place of residence of the largest community of foreigners in Poland - 6% of the local community vs. 1.3% in Warsaw. The public include therefore national and ethnic minorities. Foreign nationals were registered in the Municipality: 675 citizens of Vietnam, 160 - Ukraine, 220 - India, 24 - Nepal, 152 - Belarus, 74 - Turkey, and 43 – China.

Partner: Biggest in Poland Center for Foreigners in Linin/Góra Kalwaria

Expert of the Foundation for Dialogue - Prof. Michalski has been cooperating wih the biggest Center for Refugees in Poland and coordinating the project: "REFUGEE IN SCHOOL AND IN THE COMMUNITY”.

Partner: Art schools

ON-LINE EXHIBITION TARGETED ART STUDENTS: "THE RAPE OF EUROPE IN EUROPEAN PAINTING”
 Works inspired by myth of Europe by: Dürer, Perugino, Parmigianino, Veronese, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Moreau, Vallatton, Bonnard, Masson, Picasso, Grützke, Topor, Carol Rama, Hambling, Starowieyski, Hasior, Grzywacz, Olbinski. All these artists were inspired by the legend (recorded by Ovid) about Zeus abducting Europe, a Phoenician princess, to Crete, to inaugurate a new European civilisation.

Partner: United World College Red Cross Nordic, Flekke, Norway

"AT THE LOCAL AND GLOBAL CROSSROADS: KASHUBIAN AND NYNORIAN NARRATIONS” DRAFT PROGRAMME OF THE POLISH-NORWEGIAN NARRATIVE ART AND THEATRE FESTIVAL


Partner: Høyskole Kristiania University – Oslo, Norway

ON-LINE EXHIBITION: "SCULPTURES BY VIGELAND AND MITORAJ -
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN ART AND MYTHOLOGY"
 The stage activities accompanying the EXHIBITION will be inspired by the art of the Norwegian and Polish sculptors - Vigeland and Mitoraj, and will be directed by Prof. Cholodzinski of Hoyskole Kristiania, an artist of European renown. HØYSKOLE KRISTIANIA UNIVERSITY is a member of PLETA (Platform European Theatre Academies) - an international organization of art schools.

Partner: Canary Wharf Group PLC » Arts + Events » Art on the Estate » – the London’s financial and business centre and biggest public art collection in Great Britain

THE EXHIBITION: "Mitoraj - A Dialogue Between Art and History" (14.10.2019 to 24.11.2019)
 It was run under the honorary auspices of the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Minister Jarosław SELLIN and Sir George IACOBESCU, Commander of the Order of the British Empire - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Canary Wharf Group, London.
The launch of the exhibition on 15 October 2019 was attended by the Polish Ambassador to the United Kingdom, HE Arkady RZEGOCKI. 

Partner: National Center for Culture in Warsaw and Foundation PZU

VIRTUAL 360 EXHIBITION OF MEMORIALS COMMEMORATING THE VICTIMS OF TWO TOTALITARIAN SYSTEMS - GERMAN AND SOVIET. 

The goal is catharsis and empathy with the victims and strengthening the historical identity of the younger generation. We show panoramas of 360 memorials located in places of death in Poland, which commemorate (and in the case of Stalin's victims restore) knowledge of the victims and tragic historical heritage. The monuments show the landscape after the crimes committed by the Russians and Germans in the 20th century, mainly on the civilian population of Polish towns and villages. Memorials gathered together and presented in innovative technology "VIRTUAL REALITY" - they become a history lesson.

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Partner: Women on the Road Foundation/Wandering Women Foundation (Sopot – Poland)

We will sew protective masks COVID-19. We are a group of refugees from Chechnya who have found their new home in Gdansk. Once we needed help finding our place in Poland, now we want to be useful at a difficult time for everyone. We know how to sew professionally, we have modern industrial tailoring machines, steam irons and electric shears for cutting a large amount of material. The permanent team consists of 15 co-workers and 30 volunteers.

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