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At the beginning of July 2010, the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau and The Cracow University of Economics have signed an agreement for cooperation.

The results of the competition for the architectonic-urban design of the new Visitor Service Center at the Auschwitz Memorial have been announced. The contest aimed at developing a complex solution including a service center, hotel, parking facilities, and the accompanying infrastructure. Thirty submissions arrived by the deadline. The winner was the Cracow firm KKM Kozień Architekci, whose previous designs include the Przemyśl Regional Museum and the Radio Koszalin building.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced in Cracow on Saturday that the United States will support the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation to the amount of $15 million (€12.2 million), bringing pledges to the Foundation to around €80 million—two-thirds of the required total of €120 million—in less than a year and a half since it was established. Clinton flew into Cracow for a meeting to mark the tenth anniversary of the Community of Democracies.

The third Raphael Lemkin Seminar—organized by the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, The Raphael Lemkin Center for the Prevention of Genocide, and the Holocaust Research Center at the Jagiellonian University—has come to an end.

​23 students from the District Economic-Gastronomical School Number 4 (Powiatowy Zespół Szkół Ekonomiczno-Gastronomicznych nr 4) in Oświęcim took part in the finale of the educational project organized by the International Center for Education About Auschwitz and the Holocaust.

Educators from the Auschwitz Museum and other memorials in Poland had a chance to examine the German perspective on commemorating the victims of Nazism. As part of the Tracks Project, they spent a week as invited guests at the Documentation Center in Nuremberg, which is located in the historic Congress Hall on the grounds where party rallies were held under the Third Reich.