IICCMER launches the creation contest for highschool students “What communism meant for your family”
The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER), in partnership with the Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), launches a new national creation contest entitled “What communism meant for your family”, addressed to students in grades IX-XII. The creation contest aims at developing Romanian youth’s mechanisms of personal reflection and critical thinking through the recuperation of the traumatic memory of the recent past. This initiative encourages the inter-generational dialogue by inviting young people to adopt an unconventional, participative approach, that of recuperating the history of [...]
The National Contest for High School Students “A Day in Communism: Pages from a <> Diary”
IICCMER, in partnership with the Ministry of National Education and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, organizes the national contest for highschool students “A Day in Communism: Pages from a <<Secret>> Diary” („O zi in comunism: file de jurnal «secret»”). The contest aims to encourage students to use their imagination and creativity to write an essay on the above mentioned topic in the form of an entry from a personal diary. Thus, the participants must choose a day from the 1944 - 1989 period and refer to the way the communist regime influenced people’s lives. Among the topics that can be covered are the [...]
the national creative contest “A different museum in your school: The Museum of Communism” (“Un altfel de muzeu în școala ta: Muzeul comunismului”)
The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile, in partnership with the Ministry of National Education and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, organizes the national creative contest “A different museum in your school: The Museum of Communism” (“Un altfel de muzeu în școala ta: Muzeul comunismului”) between February 6th and March 21rd. The contest is addressed to students in grades 9-12 from schools in Romania belonging to the Ministry of National Education. Through a creative exercise, the contest aims to attract the interest of students in the history of the communist regime in Romania. Thus, [...]