The meeting of the initiating group: Giving shape to the idea of the ECED Centre and the (polish) Year for the Education for Democracy 2025.
On 21 May 2024 the first meeting was held with the participation of the wide ECED initiating circle comprising representatives of the Collegium Nobilium Novum Foundation and Chapter, the Polish Janusz Korczak Association, the Warsaw Institute of Banking and the Polish Economic Society Branch in Poznań – with a view to discussing the ideas of establishing the European Centre for the Education for Democracy and the Year for Democracy 2025.
All the participants emphasised the huge significance of these initiatives in the light of contemporary problems relating to the development of democracy and our safety, and they presented their possibilities and proposals of cooperation. For this long-awaited pro-democratic get-together a special place was selected: the Orphanage run by Janusz Korczak (Henryk Goldszmit) and Stefania Wilczyńska in Warsaw.
It is in there that for 30 years an innovative experiment of practising democracy was carried out – the place where the child’s rights to co-decide about oneself and about the life of the house, and to express one’s opinions and views were respected. The subject of the talks during the said meeting was also preparation for the visit to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs scheduled for the very next day.
The participants of the meeting were (in the alphabetical order):
- Edward Boudewijn Skubisz – Dutch Project Schools of Dialogue and Anne Frank House
- Marta Ciesielska – Polish Janusz Korczak Association – Member of the Management Board
- Paweł Chmielnicki – Faculty of Journalism, Information and Bibliology of the University of Warsaw, Member of the Chapter of Collegium Nobilium Novum
- Agnieszka Cybal-Michalska – Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Dean of the Faculty of Educational Studies, Head of the Committee of Pedagogical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Member of the Chapter of Collegium Nobilium Novum
- Michał Daszkiewicz – University of Gdańsk, Vice-Master of the Chapter of Collegium Nobilium Novum; founder and leader of the International Association for the Educational Role of Language
- Monika Dobska – Poznań University of Economy and Business, Polish Economic Society – Member of the PTE Management Board and President of the PTE Branch in Poznań, Member of the Chapter of Collegium Nobilium Novum
- Wawrzyniec Konarski – Vistula University in Warsaw – Rector, Member of the Chapter of Collegium Nobilium Novum
- Astrid Męczkowska-Christiansen – Polish Naval Academy of the Heroes of Westerplatte, Member of the Chapter of Collegium Nobilium Novum
- Barbara Młodziejewska – Polish Janusz Korczak Association – Vice-President of the Management Board
- Remigiusz Rutkowski – Polish Economic Society Branch in Poznań – lawyer
- Barbara Janina Sochal – Polish Janusz Korczak Association – President of the Association, Commission of the National Education – President of the Federation RP
- Paulina Stochniałek – Member of the Wielopolskie Province Government – Marshal’s Office in Poznań
- Waldemar Zbytek – Warsaw Institute of Banking – President of the Management Board; Chairman of the Year of Economic Education 2024
- Włodzimierz Zydorczak – Collegium Nobilium Novum Foundation – President of the Management Board
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