The guiding idea of the meetings was to highlight what unites us and what we can learn from one another. During entrepreneurship classes, students from II LO told their guests how Poland coped with the years of economic and political system transformation. During a social studies lesson, the Ukrainian students showed a film about the Maidan.
After the substantive discussions, the exchange participants visited Bolesławiec’s ceramic factories and the Ceramics Museum, and played a water polo match at the Bolesławiec aquapark.
The project was officially concluded with an exchange of posters that the students had prepared together during their stay. The Polish group presented the Ukrainian group with a poster listing what they wished for Ukraine and what new things they had learned about the country. The Ukrainian group, in turn, prepared a poster listing what they were grateful to the Polish families for and what had particularly caught their attention in Poland.
Tasty food in school canteens, modern roads and a more relaxed atmosphere in Polish schools—these were the Ukrainian students’ associations during a brainstorming activity. The Polish group’s first associations were good sweets, people like us, people they could have fun and laugh with, and great economic potential.
The project aimed not only to promote substantive discussion but also to provide good entertainment and foster friendships that would strengthen the ties between the neighbouring countries.
Ewa Mańkowska
Teacher of Polish language and Polish history
(information: Edukator Portal of the Union of Polish Teachers in Ukraine)