Younion is an international youth exchange for young people from Europe where they live and work together for two weeks. The group takes part in different workshops during the day. The workshops revolve around the Second World War and around prisoners of war imprisoned in...
WORCATION is no more! Now it’s YOUNION! We have changed the name of our summer YOUth Exchange. We’re happy to share the new name with YOU now. YOUNION!...
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The Messiaen Tage festival planned for January 13-15, 2024 has been canceled due to a funding issue. The performance of the "Quartet on the End of Times" by O. Messiaen on 15.01.2024 at 7 p.m. in the European Center for Remembrance, Education and Culture in Zgorzelec...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]On 5 December 2023, pupils from the state music schools in Jelenia Góra traditionally performed at the Silesian Christmas Market in Görlitz. The young musicians from the "Państwowa Szkoła Muzyczna I stopnia im. J. Garści" and the "Państwowa...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]My name is Johannes Bent. I originally come from Detmold in Westphalia and only recently moved to Görlitz to work at Meetingpoint Memory Messiaen e.V.. Before that, I studied cultural studies in another German-Polish twin city, Frankfurt (Oder)-Słubice....
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Currently, 465 students attend our school, including temporarily displaced children from the occupied territories of Ukraine, children with mental health problems and with special educational needs. Since February 2022, war has been dominating our everyday life! Most of our...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The 1st of November is a day to commemorate the late. In Poland it is a very important day in the canon of Christian holidays. On November 1st, family members gather at the graves of their passed loved...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] TALK LABS! The Talk Labs tandem project will take place from 20.11.23 - 25.11.23. The Polish-German language course based on the tandem method is aimed at people aged 18+. Enrolment by: 01.11.2023. Follow us on social media to stay up to...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="15332" img_size="900x400" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text] The Multimedia Guide is still available at the European Centre Remembrance, Education, Culture, at Meetingpoint and other selected places. But you can also access it online. Free of charge. How does the audio guide work? To activate...
In this difficult time, during which Russia has unleashed a war in Europe with its invasion of Ukraine, the whole world trembled again as the media reported further terrible news. On 07 October, Hamas militias from the Gaza Strip entered Israel's border areas and carried out...