aces Newsletter 02.2009 | |
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Dear teachers and project partners, Contents
The next issue of the newsletter is planned for autumn 2010. ...............................................................................................................
News and developmentsInterkulturelles Zentrum has moved office! Please contact us at our new address: Interkulturelles Zentrum Lindengasse 41/10 1070 Wien Austria Včelí Dom is a recently founded non-profit association that develops ideas and initiatives to help society meet the challenges of a new and united Europe. Based in the Slovak Republic, Včelí Dom brings people from Central and South Eastern Europe together and cooperates actively with partners within a network of organisations working for the common good. With its focus on developing strategies and supporting, promoting and organising projects, Včelí Dom will be a strong partner in the implementation of aces. Tine Gamper will take a well deserved sabbatical from 01 December 2009 until 31 October 2010. During the aces Kick-Off Meeting she has handed over the “key of success” to Reinhard Eckert who will be responsible for the coordination of aces in the meantime. We wish Tine Gamper all the best! Michaela Münster will join the aces coordination team in December. She will support the team during Tine Gamper’s sabbatical. Michaela studied English, American studies and journalism at the University of Vienna and has been working as translator and in various organisations which facilitate international exchange programmes. As a result of the aces call for project proposals 2009 with the overall theme “Have your say! Young Europeans shape their future” 105 project applications (of which 99 were eligible) were submitted, with a total number of 228 schools involved. During the aces Selection Meeting which took place in Vienna from 2 to 5 June 2009, the representatives of the Ministries of Education of the participating countries awarded 43 projects with a total number of 105 schools involved. You can look up the details of the involved schools in the section “School Network” on the aces website http://www.aces.or.at/schoolnetwork and the project details in the section “Awarded Projects 2009/2010” http://www.aces.or.at/awardedprojects. Please provide a short description of your school and your project and keep this information updated!!! During the aces Academy, taking place from 25 to 28 March 2009 in Budapest, an international editorial team was constantly present, observed what was going on and interviewed participants as well as staff members. Their impressions and observations as well as their thoughts about the Academy have been published in the “travel guide to aces” which was distributed to all participating schools in early October 2009. Events and announcementsFor the second time the aces Kick-Off Meeting took place in Salzburg. It was the start event for the new aces school partnership projects of 2009/2010. All in all the meeting hosted more than 250 participants and guests who got to know each other, worked together and received inputs and training (workshops, excursions) with regard to the implementation of their projects and the topics of participation and active citizenship. As a special feature, and for the first time, ALL participants of the aces project cycle 2009/2010 were involved: project groups at home were asked to carry out the community task “Stay Connected” and sent their contributions to the conference! Look up the outcomes of the activity at http://www.teamworks.cc/aces. The report of the Kick-Off Meeting http://www.aces.or.at/networkevents, http://tinyurl.com/yk2vxc2 and detailed workshop descriptions http://www.aces.or.at/methods from all workshops are available on the aces website. The Academy 2010 will take place from 23 to 26 March 2010 in Senec, Slovak Republic (about 30 minutes of travel by train from Bratislava). It will involve approximately 350 participants from project schools of different aces cycles, representatives of the Ministries of Education of the participating countries, members of ERSTE Foundation, Interkulturelles Zentrum and Vcelí Dom, as well as various special guests. The first part of the meeting will focus on the presentation and joint evaluation of the school projects and provide an exchange about good practice examples. The second part will offer workshops on topics related to conflict resolution, peace education and school development. Announcements from ERSTE Foundation13 November 2009 – 14 February 2009, Opening: 12 November 2009, 7 pm Twenty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, this exhibition presents gender issues and the analysis of gender roles in Eastern European art. It features subject-specific paintings, photographs, posters, sculptures, installations, films and videos produced since the mid-1960s by around 70 artists in various Eastern and South Eastern European countries, reflecting the socio-political developments in popular culture and in the work of the followers of the avant-garde. Location: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK) Curator: Bojana Pejić. For more information visit www.gender-check.at 30 November 2009, 8 pm The Burgtheater is founding, in cooperation with ERSTE Foundation, a new state on old territory. The new Kakanien lies somewhere in the region of the former Danube Monarchy, but with a different form of government. The new republic is constituted by poets who explore their territory through narrative and poetic forms. The monthly lectures contribute to the growth of a spiritual space, whose constitution is in permanent development. Speech: Andrzej Stasiuk, Poland Moderation: Peter Huemer Location: Akademietheater, Lisztstraße 1, 1030 Vienna aces member schools – news & activitiesIn this section we provide information about the latest developments and projects of aces network members. Eralda Jesku, Nehemia School Bucimas, Pogradec, Albania Promoters from Turkey, Macedonia, Germany and Albania led the project “Citizenship in Us” from 1 – 10 July 2009 under the Youth in Action Programme, an initiative of the European Commission. (http://ec.europa.eu/youth) The project dealt with the concept of “European Citizenship”, understood as awareness and competences to cooperate in multicultural groups as well as to see one’s role in that of the State, Europe and the world. Participants learned to accept and respect everyone for what s/he is no matter the gender, race, nationality, ethnical belonging. Activities included group work, an “Open Space” workshop, meeting local government leaders, and cultural visits to Ohrid and Struga. Helping Hands has been a project of the aces cycle 2008/2009 (http://tinyurl.com/yzwsjld), with the aim of developing an afternoon tuition for the children in the Roma community in Bocsa, Romania. In addition to the activities within the aces project cycle there has been a presentation to the local press in April in Hartberg, and a study-visit of six pupils from the Liceul Teoretic “Tata Oancea”, Bocşa to Hartberg in May. Football equipment for the newly founded local football-league was organised, and a further visit of pupils from Hartberg to Bocşa is planned for December 2009. 
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Academy of Central European Schools
an initiative of ERSTE Foundation
coordinated by Interkulturelles Zentrum
in cooperation with VČELÍ DOM
coordinated by Interkulturelles Zentrum
in cooperation with VČELÍ DOM