Together Polska

My Words are FREE- youth exchange in Macedonia coming soon

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:50:54 +0000

Together with Macedonian organization LOJA and German cultural center- DIE VILLA we have a pleasure to announce first part of the project MY WORDS ARE FREE that will take place in Macedonia between 31st of March and 7th April.

The project will be focused on the article 19 of the Declaration of Human Rights that says:

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

All partner countries represent different level of involvement of youth in current social issues on local, national and global level. This project will make them aware of the wider reality in Europe, as well as link their everyday actions with global issues like human rughts.

Together Polska on UNAOC Pre-Forum in Doha, Qatar, May 2-5th

admin — Wed, 04 May 2011 18:14:39 +0000

“How can we live together in a spirit of respect and cooperation while the increasing
diversity of our societies can generate anxiety, divisions and pressure on fragile
democracies? That is the question we must deal with at the Alliance of Civilizations and to
which we must continue to respond”, said HE Dr Jorge Sampaio, United Nations High
Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations.

The Doha Pre Forum brought together more than 190 civil society leaders,
representing regional and national networks from Africa, Latin America and Caribbean,
Europe, North America, Asia and the MENA region.

Fundacja Together Polska represented Poland during the event. More on: http://www.qatar4unaoc.org

On Islam in Europe…Training Course in the UK

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:25:39 +0000

Imagine a nice, spacious garden…
Imagine a little house in the forest of Dean – England…
…and 25 young people, both Muslims and non-Muslims who decided to open-up to each other and share their personal perspective concerning Islam… in Europe.

Three members of Together Polska participated in one of the few training courses organized by ASHA Fundation from UK that gave an opportunity to reflect on what is Islam in Europe, what’s our attitude towards it and why it is an important component of today’s culture of Europe.

The training not only turned out to be an intensive week full of encounters with so many creative and interesting people but also created space for self-reflection about what we know so far, what we would like to know more and how to examine our misconceptions about Islam.
This week provided us with useful tools for youth work specifically addressing the issues of Islamophobia and encouraged us to plan concrete activities to take place in the future.

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EPTO meeting in Bruxelles

admin — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 05:33:00 +0000

As Together Polska has joined an European Peer Training Organisation we were invited to take part in “Learning for Well-Being for children and youth” initiative couple of weeks ago. The gathering was chaired by Daniel Kropf, founder of Universal Education Foundation ( UEF), initiator of the movement, who introduced the new concept. Why and how do we learn? is the current educational system worth to continue or should we head towards new solutions? Results of the meeting on www.epto.org

EVS volunteers came back from Macedonia!

admin — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:17:46 +0000

“It was a great time” – says Robert who together with Agata spent 10 months in Tetovo, Macedonia. They come back to the university but also think about coming back to Balkans one day. “Now when we know the language, it will be much easier to travel and make Bubble Show”. Big soap bubbles are not the only speciality of the volunteers: during their time in Macedonia, they have taught young people and kids how Camera Obscura works. Together they have created a movie that will be uploaded on YouTube very soon!

ABC Palestyna

admin — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:40:16 +0000

Together Polska co-organised film festival ABC Palestyna in September. Art exposition, video performance, film screenings and discussions were presented in Zbiornik Kultury in Krakow.

Public Screening of Summer Media Academy Results!

admin — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:41:15 +0000

Five short movies produced by young people from East Jerusalem were shown to the public for the first time last Thursday. Reportage from current events in the Old City, artistic performance in Aida Camp on West Bank and 3 fiction movies: these are results of three weeks filming and editing workshops with trainers from Poland and Italy. Summer Media Academy is part of the long term Media project designed for youth from East Jerusalem aiming at development of creativity and self-expression by video production.

Welcome to Jerusalem!- Summer Media Academy

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:40:32 +0000

It has been already a week in Jerusalem! Summer Media Academy project realised in co-operation with Spafford Children’s Centre in Old City has started. Young Palestinians have a chance to get to know new media by learning how to create animation, design sound and web pages. Summer Media Academy is part of the Youth Media Centre project granted by Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Poland, in the frame of Polish Aid.

Some news from Tetovo:

Izabela — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:00:36 +0000

Our volunteers from Tetovo (Macedonia) give some news about their work in the frames of EVS project “EuroStep”:

” We are already running pocket cinema in our organization. Although Tetovo is second big town in Macedonia there is no real cinema here. Thats why we are trying to keep atention of young people with our cinema. We have some regular audience and try to enlarge it now through the facebook;). Youth Info Point is gona to be open from this week. We will provide there information about scholarships, exchanges, volounteer and etc. Hopefully people will come in spite of snowy weather ;). “

Do not hesitate to contact them.

You can e-mail Agata or Robert to discover their project in Tetovo, live in Macedonia or to get their opinions about Evs.
Read more about EuroStep in the section “Projects”.

Our volunteers have come back from Netherlands

admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:03:05 +0000

Our volunteers have come back from Almere, the Netherlands where for 10 days they were participating in artistically, musically and “interculturally” stimulating meeting with people from Romania, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Greece and Netherlands.

You can watch their memories here.

To know more about the this event, go to section “Projects”.