From left: Ana Perona-Fjeldstad - EWC Executive Director, Stefania Wilkiel - Counselor to the Polish Minister of National Education, Gunnar Mandt - EWC Special Adviser
The Summer AcademyThe summer academy is based on an initiative made by the Polish Ministry of National Education to The European Wergeland Centre in May 2009.
The first course will take place in July 2010. The content and theme will vary slightly from course to course, but the structure will be more or less the same; 30 teacher trainers from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus coming together in Warsaw to analyze and exchange practice and ideas, identify problematic issues and helping them to incorporate the principles of human rights, democracy, tolerance and mutual respect, the rule of law and peaceful resolution of conflicts into daily practice of teaching and learning.
The academy will consist of online preparations, face to face seminars and online follow-up after the seminar.
The trainers will also be asked to act as liaison officers for the summer academy in his or her country.
Further information and details about the Summer Academy will be available in the beginning of 2010.
Henrik Wergeland (1808 – 1845) was a romantic poet and an important historian. He was an advocate for
democracy, and an eager defender of freedom of faith and freedom of expression.
