PARTICIPANTS
"A-participants"
7 bachelor students + staff - two-week study stay in Oslo
1 master student - one month study stay in Oslo
1 doctoral student - student of the Department of Psychology, six-month stay at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
"B-participants"
Other bachelor students of Norwegian language and literature
Participation in project preparation and its organization
PHASES
1. Autumn semester 2019: Seminar Representation of war and the Holocaust in Norwegian literature, web design, project workshop in Brno (10-11 October 2019, two professors and three history students from the University of Agder), gathering relevant materials and resources preparation of the study program.
2. Study stay in Oslo 15. - 30. 1. 2020: 8 students (A - participants) working with projects' partner The Jewish Museum in Oslo - work in the library, archive, gathering information + work on written output, as well as a program including a visit Museum of the Norwegian Resistance, Holocaus Center, Holocaust Remembrance Day memorial event 27. 1. aj.
3. Final phase - outcomes. Seminar paper on personalities, broadcasting on radio in Brno and above all photo exhibition in the Moravian Library Brno. (UPDATE MAY 2020 - due to coronavirus, the exhibition could not take place in the end - online version of the exhibition HERE)
EEA AND NORWAY GRANTS
The EEA and Norway Grants represent the contribution of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway to reducing economic and social disparities and to strengthening bilateral relations with 15 EU countries in Central and Southern Europe and the Baltics. The Czech Republic has been a recipient of this financial support since 2004 when we joined the European Union and therefore the European Economic Area (EEA) as well.
Since 2004 the EEA and Norway Funds have supported a number of interesting projects for more than CZK 6 billion in the Czech Republic. Currently the Czech Republic is the fifth biggest recipient after Poland, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria. The Memoranda of Understanding for a current third programming period of the EEA and Norway Grants were officially signed at the Anežský klášter premises in Prague on 4th September 2017. The Czech Republic will receive EUR 184.5 million (approximately CZK 5 billion) in the new period.
Supported will be projects focusing primarily on research and innovation, environmental protection,cultural heritage and cultural cooperation, public health, education and cooperation in justice. Great emphasis is given on human rights, the inclusion of Roma and the development of civil society.
The new period also offers great opportunities for bilateral projects and activities.
PROJECT
The focus is on the historical topics, e.g. portraits of Holocaust victims and survivors, portraits of the volunteers connected with the Nansen-aid organisation in the years 1938 - 1940. The central perspective points toward an analysis of "active citizenship" in the mirror of present democracy discourse in Europe.
This mobility project is built up as a bridge between historic topics and today´s questions concerning democracy values, as a bridge between various accesses cross over the disciplines (literature, history, psychology, sociology, art), as a bridge between Norway and the Czech Republic, as a bridge between the individual participants in both countries.
The focus is on historical topics, e.g. portraits of Holocaust victims and survivors, portraits of the volunteers connected with the Nansen-aid organisation in the years 1938 - 1940.The central perspective points toward an analysis of "active citizenship" in the mirror of present democracy discourse in Europe. The overall project objectives shall enable the students and other participants profound understanding and adequate realizing of the essential human values such as respect to national and religious minorities in society. The student groups travelling abroad will be followed by experienced teachers and experts, so that the mobility outcomes bring for the students' professional competencies.