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Transnational Training Programme. Polish, German, and Russian educational project
The last session of the international work group for the trilateral Transnational Training Programme for educators from Poland, Germany, and Russia has come to a close. The project aims at acquainting its participants with the history of memorials, and presenting ways of incorporating human rights in teaching. Education should be based on the history of three memorials: Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Perm-36.
In 2013, an international team of experts met on three work seminars: in January in Oświęcim, Poland, in April in Bergen-Belsen, Germany, and at the turn of August in Perm, Russia, where a camp for political prisoners was located until 1987. The last political opposionists left the gulag in 1987. Eight years later, the area of the camp became the site for the first in the Russia Federation Museum of History of Political Oppressions Perm-36.
Three six-person teams will take part in the project which programme was established at these three sessions. The participants will work in their countries but also meet together in the international sessions which will take place respectively in Poland, Germany, and Russia.
“We would like each member from the teams to create individual work methods and practices for dealing with such a difficult issue,” said Alicja Wójcik, the coordinator of the programme from the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. “We will encourage the participants to design their own materials facilitating teaching human rights which will later on be available on the project's website for other educators to use in their work,” added Ms Wójcik.
The first edition of the Transnational Training Programme starts in March 2014.
The project preparation was done by three institutions: the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum from Poland, the Bergen-Belsen Memorial from Germany, and the Museum of History of Political Oppressions Perm-36 from Russia.
