Learning for Peace

The big conflicts of the past 80-100 years in our region have influenced the lives of many generations, regardless of the country of their origins or residency. Same events are being remembered from different angles, sometimes with different emotions in different communities and in different countries. The event is the same, the narratives are divergent. Cooperating with transnational partners in the project, and making their databases available and searchable along e.g., life-changing events, places, personalities, etc. will enhance the organisational databases and the partner organisations will be able to provide more diverse sources for educators.

General objective of the Learning for Peace project is to streamline stories from the past into educational programs with the aim of empowering people to look more critically at history and thus the current populist, aggressive political trends, which have been proven in the past to push societies into war and economic crisis. Result of the project will be recommendations for educators for using stories recorded about past conflicts.

Partner organisations

 
Forum Minority Research Institute, Slovakia

Contact:

Andrea Lelovics, Project Manager

lelovics.andrea@foruminst.sk

 
Sigmund Freud University, Austria

Contact:

Erzsébet Fanni Tóth, Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma Research Institute

erzsebet.toth@sfu.ac.at

Project meeting in Vienna

The kick-off meeting of the Learning for Peace project took place in Vienna, at the Sigmund Freud University on January 24th. The meeting was opened by Martin Kuska, the deputy dean responsible for research. Later, together with Erzsébet Fanni Tóth, the project’s Austrian coordinator, Attila Simon and Andrea Lelovics planned the project activities, especially the first professional workshop.

Project meeting in Šamorín

The second project meeting of the Learning for Peace project took place in Šamorín, at the Forum Institute on 12 September. The meeting was attended by Fanni Erzsébet Tóth, the project coordinator in Austria, Attila Simon, historian and director of the Forum Institute, Zoltán Kőrös, historian, oral history expert and Fórum Institute staff member, and Andrea Lelovics, project manager. The main topic of the discussion was the planned workshop in Bratislava and the recommendations that are being prepared. Prior to the project meeting, Erzsébet Fanni Tóth and Andrea Lelovics talked about the project and the workshop on the “Keddi Nappali” programme of Radio Patria.

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Programme: ERASMUS+ Small Scale Partnerships

Contract number: 2022-2-SK01-KA210-ADU-000100694

Grant: 30 000 EUR

Implementation: January – December 2023