On the 25th of November, Rogers Foundation held their train-the-trainer workshop at the Eötvös Loránd University’s Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education in Budapest, Hungary. The training was held as part of a bigger conference around play and games in education, called “Akarsz-e játszani” (“Do you want to play?”) and gathered around 80 people. The […]
The Rogers Academy (a „non-school” run by the Rogers Foundation) organizes the so-called Eco Day two times a year; one in the Autumn, and one in the Spring. On these occasions students can take part in various ecology and nature related activites. This year, the Rogers Foundation organized the Eco Day on the 13th of […]
On October 6 we had an opportunity to invite educators, librarians, NGO and cultural workers to a whole-day train-the-trainer workshop for future moderators of the New Shores game. During the meeting conducted by Damian Dec from Damian Dec Instytut Inspiracji and Ola Solińska-Nowak and Michał Pająk from CRS, the participants gained knowledge and skills to […]
After over a year of hard work and user testing, the New Shores game and its accompanying materials are now available on the Edmodo platform. However, this success does not mean that the work on the project is finished. Our objective for upcoming months is to promote this innovative tool among people working with youth. To assist educators and […]
On September 4, 2018, a last face-to-face meeting took place as part of the New Shores project. Its main objective was to prepare for the final event – training for future New Shores moderators that will be held in the Autumn in three countries: in Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. Together, we have prepared the schedule […]
International Day of Democracy, initiated by the United Nations, celebrated its tenth anniversary last year. Held on 15th September since 2007, the event is an occasion to review the state of democracy in the world, highlighting the challenges, responsibilities and opportunities it offers to nations, and examining how well parliaments fulfill their democratic mission, and […]
On August 25, 2018 we had the pleasure to host a group of students from Syracuse University in New York, USA. Visiting Central Europe as part of “The European Identity Seminar”, they began in Berlin, Germany moved to Wroclaw, Poland and then Vienna, Austria. In each of the countries, they explored the multilayered nature of […]
The October workshop for future moderators of the New Shores – a Game for Democracy is to be launched soon (you can already register for the free meeting). Meanwhile, as part of the preparations, we organized an open face-to-face game session for people interested in getting to know this tool better. During a two-hour meeting, […]
On June 5, 2018, on the occasion of the World’ Environmental Day, we held an open New Shores online session. A world in which individual and collective motivations of the players do not always go in line with the overarching goal of the UN initiative, has become a witness to a truly exciting gameplay. Academic […]
We are happy to announce that on May 31, 2018 we finally launched the New Shores class on Edmodo! What is Edmodo? Edmodo is a global education network that helps connect all teachers with the people and resources needed to reach their full potential. It works a little bit like a social media site with […]