Since 1974, the 5th of June has been celebrated as the World Environment Day. An important date in the calendar for those who value the nature, the World Environment Day is a time to stop and reflect on how we are part of nature and how we directly depend on its ‘ecosystem services,’ such as clean […]
We visited the Wrocław University of Economy to participate in this year’s edition of the Szkoła Liderów Lokalnych! A group of 19 students of economics took part in a short presentation about activism, voluntary work and social cooperatives as well as nongovernmental organisations and the emerging 4th sector. The presentation was followed by a session […]
Last Thursday, we met with educators, lecturers, librarians and other youth workers to test New Shores – an unusual game that aims to bring the topic of participation, cooperation and making sustainable decisions closer to young citizens of Europe. Is is possible to use a game to encourage young people to ask themselves difficult questions, […]
November evenings don’t have to be boring – as we learned on Friday, 17th testing New Shores – a Game for Democracy with the members of the local Kids and Youth Club run by the Stowarzyszenie Żółty Parasol. This time the game was played by a much younger audience than usually (kids aged 9-12). Yet, […]
The work on the project Nauru Game for Active Citizenship of Youth is in full swing. This time we were discussing the progress in the development of New Shores – Game for Democracy and the accompanying educational materials in picturesque Budapest. First we tested new graphics and functionalities of the game with 20 educators and […]
Civic engagement takes too much time. It demands reading boring laws, participating in endless public hearings and confronting conflicts of interest. What is more, in many cases, it seems pointless, bringing about no real changes. Democracy has become the political version of spinach. Although almost everyone knows it’s good and healthy, only few people actually […]
We live in a world of dynamic changes that affect global policy, economy and ecology. How not to get lost and be part of these processes, actively shaping our common future? We addressed these and other questions at the second transnational project meeting in Slovakia. In the beautiful scenery of the Slovak Tatra Mountains, we […]
On March 23-24, 2017 the CRS hosted guests from our partner organizations, TANDEM, n. o. (Slovakia) and Rogers Foundation for Person-Centred Education (Hungary). These creative people came together to set out project goals, workshop design, moderator training and much more. There will be three more meetings during the project – we are looking forward to […]