International Cooperation Office

About the Bambers and Nysa Germanists' project: What does Książ Castle, picture books and pierogi have in common?

From 8.-15.06. the Faculty of Neophilology hosted students and one student from our partner university, the Friedrich Otto University in Bamberg, together with their lecturer Annette Langeneke-Mattenklodt.  This was actually a return visit as part of a joint project carried out on the part of our university by students of the teaching specialisation in German philology. So the participants already knew each other well and were looking forward to meeting in Wrocław, where we learnt about the multicultural history of the University of Wrocław and visited the Four Temples of Mutual Respect Quarter before heading to Nysa.

The programme of the meeting included a variety of activities related to the work of native and foreign language teachers, ranging from numerous workshops, including the preparation of classes based on picture books and conducting them in Primary School No. 2 in Głuchołazy, through a literary project at the Książ Castle, creative writing in the atmospheric surroundings of the Church of Peace in Świdnica, classes relating to the history of the German resistance movement during the Second World War in the International Youth Meeting Centre of the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe, and a pierogi-making workshop organised in cooperation with the dietetics department of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Physical Culture.

The good mood of the participants is evident from the photos.

As the coordinator of the project, I would like to thank the University authorities very much for their support. My heartfelt thanks also go to my colleagues from the Faculty of Neophilology, who spontaneously helped to implement the project, and in particular to Professor Wojciech Kunicki, who not only told us about the history of the University of Wrocław, but also showed us its well-known and lesser-known nooks and crannies. Special thanks are due to Dr Marta Misiarz, without whose help, time and attention, we would not have had the chance to make such excellent pierogies.  And last but not least: a huge thank you to the colleagues from the International Cooperation Office for their unceasing support during the preparation and implementation phase of the project, for their patience, ingenuity and for promising to help with the next project!

Dr Monika Witt

Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Nysa

Faculty of Neophilology