Poland

About European Unionhttp://www.project.cyberdusk.pl/stamp/
Intercultural Dialogue (many international awards)http://webnews.textalk.com/en/view.php?id=9170
International Theatrehttp://theatre.m-szkola.net/envo/index.php
and others

Organisation’s main activities:
- European Capital of Culture – Wrocław 2016
- Jazz on the Oder Festival (the oldest and one of the biggest Polish Jazz Festivals)
- International Theatre Festival “Dialog”
- European Literature Nights – project focusing on promoting literature and inspiring people to reading
- Halo-Echo – project focusing on animated cartoons made by children
-  Bazaar – cultural education workshops for merchants and tradesman
- Wroclawski Sound – festival promoting local musicians
- Non Sola Scripta - one of the oldest and most reputable organ festivals in Poland
- Social Academy of Culture - a monthly cycle of debates and workshops led by Jacek Żakowski
- BASK - the open lab of Basque culture, an open studio for workshops led by artists, designers and linguists
- Mandala Performance Festival – stage and thetheatre performances, exhibitions

International project: Socrates-Comenius “European Curriculum for Children of Migrant Workers” 2000-2003
National project “Attitudes of Polish Society toward European Integration” 2000-2003
International project in co-operation with the OSCE/ODIHR “The Website Guide to Tolerance Education” 2002-2005 http://tolerance.research.uj.edu.pl
International project Socrates-Comenius “Co-operative Learning in European Context” 2003-2005
Publication (in English and Polish) in co-operation with the OSCE/ODIHR “Why Should We Teach about the Holocaust?” 2004-2005
Multicultural Europe program in co-operation with the British Council, 2005.
Ongoing regional co-operation with the Teachers Training Centre in Krakow

The Institute organized also others many globalization academic workshops, debates, and
events such as promotion of knowledge about Tibet, Malaysia, Iran or situation of
immigrants in Poland. Members of Institute participated in many international events
and gained professional experience inter alia in United States (UN), Israel/Palestine and Asia. Another form of activity is holding artistic, photographic exhibitions and
multimedia projections. The institute is also a think-tank – it already published
multilingual (so far in Polish, English and Russian languages) reports on international
relations.
Civil Caucasus - a development aid programme focused on research on civil society in Georgia after the revolution. It was conducted in cooperation with Liberty Institute in Tbilisi. The programme included study trips of both Georgian and Polish students to Georgia and Poland.
Civil Palestine - also a development aid programme. Its aim was to promote the idea of civil society in Palestinian Autonomy. It consisted of several workshops, conference, and creation of wide spread net of specialists that worked with youth in various Palestinian cities and villages
Fencers for Palestine - this project focuses on development of sport (fencing) in Palestinian Autonomy. Together with Palestinian Fencing Federation we worked on improvemrnt of skills of Palestinian coaching personnel, usage of equipment and promotion of fencing in schools. According to the Ministry of Sports and Youth, the best development project in its category.

The Institute of Research on Civilizations organizes Culture Days within two cycles: Encounters with the Orient and Cultures Close and Distant. Furthermore, we organize seminars, conferences, meetings with authors, photography exhibitions and multicultural workshops for students.

Within the last 10 years Institute of Slavonic Philology at the Jagiellonian University has organized and co-organized many projects such as:
* In search of New Canon. Reinterpretation of the cultural tradition in post-Yugoslav countries after 1995/ W poszukiwaniu nowego kanonu. Reinterpretacja tradycji kulturalnej w państwach postjugosłowiańskich po 1995 roku. (http://postjugo.filg.uj.edu.pl/index.htm)
* Common project with Interfaculty Institute of Ecumenism and Dialogue (MIED) Pontifical Academy of Theology in Krakow "Ecumenism and Dialogue Library" (http://upjp2.edu.pl/strona/5qfvkdgxbw)
* Students Journey to Bosnia, October 2009: European Bosnia - Oriental Bosnia/ Bośnia europejska – Bośnia orientalna (http://bih2009.wordpress.com/)
* International conference Interpreting Slavdom [(Wy)tłumaczyć Słowiańszczyznę], devoted and the art of translation of the literature of Slavonic languages organized with Villa Decius Association; every two years since 2008 (http://www.villa.org.pl/index.php?nr2=322)

Street Art Festival: an international interdisciplinary event aiming at encouraging and inspiring citizens to join common actions heading for a change of the city space, by revealing their own creativity and activity.
This project is a contributing factor to the process of changing the image if industrial city, both its visual appearance. atmosphere,and the citizens' attitude, which is done through variety of cultural events and artistic happenings.
Festiwal Video Re:view, presenting the most interesting phenomena in the domain of video art and new media, and organized in co-operation with renowned centres of video art such as Ars Electronica Linz, Videonale Bonn and Les Instant Marseille.
Ars Independent Film Festival presenting independent and non-commercial cinema, which marks out new horizons of contemporary cinematography, and surprises by the themes brought up by directors.

Project "CUBE" - funded by Grundtvig programme (www.vcube.eu)
Project "HEART" - funded by Grundtvig programme (www.heart.cba.pl)
Project "Design your future" - funded by Leonardo da Vinci Programme
Project "Let's" - funded by Leonardo da Vinci programme (www.mobilityprojects.weebly.com)
Project "Visegrad Wine Route" - funded by the Internationa Visegrad Fund (www.visegradwineroute.eu)

The Grotowski Institute’s activities include undertaking major international theatre projects such as the European Theatre Award, the international theatre festival ‘World as a Place of Truth’ (with the next instalment planned for 2012) and co-producing works by renowned theatre directors such as, most recently, Peter Brook’s 11 & 12, created in collaboration with the Barbican Center (London) and the Bouffes du Nord Theatre (Paris). The Institute also runs the Masters in Residence programme (participating directors in 2010 will be Eugenio Barba and Anatoly Vasiliev), Eastern Line projects (that aim to support Central European independent theatre) and educational programmes (International Stagiaires Programme and the meetings of theatre schools called ‘Making Tomorrow’s Theatre’). The promotional activities of the Institute include multi-dimensional support for independent theatre initiatives in the form of long-term artistic research projects, such as those conducted by Maisternia Pisni (Lviv), Teatro La Madrugada (Milan), Bred in the Bone (London), Laboratorio Permanente di Ricerca Sull’Arte dell’Attore (Torino), Teatr ZAR (Wroc?aw), Spitfire Company (Prague) and other artists. The Institute supports artists from a younger generation who did not work with Jerzy Grotowski directly but for whom his work is an important point of reference. The publishing activity contributes to the Institute’s operations in the artistic and educational fields and refers to the archive that in fact drives and shapes its activity.