Cześć* everyone! Adventure is awaiting
We are 12 European Solidarity Corps volunteers in Tratwa Association, Wroclaw. We are in the process of developing social and cultural initiatives to benefit to citizenship of Wroclaw.
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*= “Hello” in Polish
European Solidarity in Action
During summer 2021, 90 volunteers from all over Europe will join our association for an ambicious adventure. Crazy, right? Check it out for more information!!
ESC 2020 – 2021 Project
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Living in Wroclaw
Wroclaw: a complicated history behind and a bright energy towards the future. What about it?
What is European Solidarity Corps?
Tratwa ESC is a project co-financed by the European Solidarity Corps Program of the European Union. This program allows young people from 18 to 30 years to live experiences abroad working in project connected with social, environmental and educational issues, with a focus on non formal learning and bringing benefits for the local community. The projects can last from some weeks up to 12 months and they can take in every part of Europe, both big cities and rural environments. The partecipants receives accomodation, food and a monthly allowance to cover their living costs, other than tutoring and space to implement their ideas. Projects starts continuosly during the year, so it is never too late to apply! To discover more about the program and the application requirements, click here.
If you still feel confused, do not worry, we took care of that. FAQ: A Solidarity Guide
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DO IT YOURSELF!
DIY began in the early 1970s during the punk movement with a vision against the society of consumerism. The principle is to refuse to consume what is already existing, and thus to arrive at a phase of personal creation. And why am I telling you that, will you ask me…? Well, I’ll tell you about my history with soap. A year ago, during confinement on Reunion Island, I was trying to take care of myself as best I could. I came across an article talking about the manufacture of soaps, candles, balms and moisturizers which you could produce by yourself:…
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Two days of trainings
“[…] The essence of a team is common commitment. Without it, groups perform as individuals; with it, they become a powerful unit of collective performance. “ Some weeks ago, as a group we played a couple of nice games together. They put us in a circle, gave us a ball, and asked to toss it around. When launching it, the name of the intended recipient had to be pronounced aloud. Classic teambuilding, in short. Then they gave us two, then three. This is also a classic, it’s like when you played volleyball in a circle in school and the group…
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The Art of Stealing, the Stealing of Art
Good artists copy, great artist steal. What a better to way to start this text than with such copy-pasted cliché phrase, whose very authorship is even debated [1]. Trapped in our hauntological prison of infinite self-referentiality, it is not uncommon for concepts such as originality to be redefined and re-redefined in order to adapt, signify, and operate within the ever-evolving frameworks of collective semantics. The very verbal simulation which frames the coordinates of our understanding of the Universe – our Weltanschauung, if you may – is already conditioned fundamentally and structurally by the recursiveness of the media (language) through which…
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Żabka vs Biedronka: a political analysis
I vaguely remember a scene from a few weeks ago: a friend and I, wandering through the freezing Wroclaw night, looking for some intoxicating liquid to spice up our avid throats. It was after six in the morning and not after too much time, like the Promised Land to the Israeli people, a Żabka appeared in front us with the consequent explosion of joy that this entailed. We saw our most primal desires finally able to be satisfied after forty years – maybe it was four minutes but our perception of time was a bit distorted— wandering in the desert.…
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On the trail of Wroclaw’s past
Wrocław has about 640,000 inhabitants and is the fourth largest city in Poland. The capital of the Dolny Śląsk voivodeship (Lower Silesia) won the title, in 2016, of European Capital of Culture, and still nowadays Wroclaw is one of the most important cultural cities in the country and, at least for the next year, it is going to be our home. Therefore it is also worthy to learn something about the history of this city, right? For me it is even more important, because my family is from Opole, a city about 100 km west of Wrocław. Same as Wrocław,…
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