Forum for Dialogue, House of the Wannsee Conference and Ecorys team up in a grant from the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values program of the European Commission.
We are pleased to announce that Forum for Dialogue, together with the House of the Wannsee Conference from Berlin and Ecorys Polska, has received a grant in the 2023 edition of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values program set up by the European Commission. Forum is the leader of this international consortium of organizations. For the next two years, our Towards Networks for Dialogue: Multi-perspective Strategies for Combating Antisemitism at Local Levels project, will enable us to connect individuals and institutions combating antisemitism by working directly with local communities in Poland and Germany into networks that provide support and sustainability.
The project implements the methods and strategies for lasting impact and change that we have been developing for the past 25 years. The funding and international partnerships, however, allow us to further strengthen our network of grassroots activists from all over Poland, who educate about Jewish history and culture, preserve Jewish heritage, and establish relations with descendants of Polish Jews. By growing the network substantially in the coming two year period, introducing new organizational tools and broadening our program offer for Network members, we ensure effectiveness and impact of our and Network members’ activities in Poland.
While we grow and support the activists in the Forum for Dialogue Network, the House of the Wannsee Conference will build a network of individuals, institutions, and partners dedicated to Holocaust education, including volunteers and activists, freelancers professionals, as well as permanent staff of sites of remembrance in Berlin and Brandenburg. They also plan to finetune their existing approaches to educating about the Holocaust and combating antisemitism today during a series of meetings and discussions organized by the House for their network members.
An integral element of the project is the exchange of experiences between partners carried on throughout the project. It will also reflect the translatability of perspectives between Polish and German work of remembrance and the possibility of using the strategies and solutions developed by Forum for Dialogue and House of the Wannsee Conference in other contexts. At the same time, Ecorys, with its both local and global expertise, will provide strategic assistance to both partners in order to help them act in more sustainable and effective ways.
