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Programme: Europe for Citizens
Identifier: 588573-CITIZ-1-2017-1-IE-CITIZ-REMEM
Title: The Crocus Project: remembering the Holocaust, learning lessons for contemporary Europe
Summary
The Crocus Project is an Irish initiative whereby HETI provides yellow Crocus bulbs for young people aged 11 years and older to plant in memory of the 1.5 million Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust and thousands of other children who were victims of Nazi atrocities. The yellow flowers recall the yellow Star of David that Jews were forced to wear under Nazi rule. The Crocus blooms around the end of January, in time for Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January). The Crocus Project is a tangible way to introduce young people to the subject of the Holocaust and to raise awareness about the dangers of racism and discrimination. The children’s involvement in learning about the Holocaust, planting the bulbs and watching the flowers grow, encourages learning about tolerance and respect. HETI provides an Information pack to assist teachers in educating about the Holocaust.The Crocus Project has grown since 2005 when 6,000 Irish pupils participated. In 2017/18, 105,902 students from 10 European countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia), participated in The Crocus Project. Over 12 years, over 544,000 individual students have planted crocus bulbs. We hope increasing numbers of countries will join The Crocus Project each year until the whole of Europe participates in it and more than 1.5 million crocuses will bloom.Schools participating in The Crocus Project can use the Facebook Crocus Club group to post messages, share photographs and swap stories of their experiences of involvement in The Crocus Project. This platform connects students, teachers and communities across Europe and encourages intercultural dialogue between participants, increases awareness of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the EU and foster a sense of shared history and EU citizenship across national borders.Students are urged to embrace diversity, citizenship, European identity and human rights, which in turn contribute to their understanding of the Union and its cultural and linguistic diversity. The project provides a platform to introduce civic and democratic lessons in the classroom – lessons which were ignored during this tragic period in Europe’s past. The Crocus Project fosters European citizenship, civic and democratic participation at Union level. By completing projects about European identity, common values, history and culture, young citizens learn through interactive exchanges how the past relates to their lives today and the role that the Union holds in defending democracy and freedom.Each year, The Crocus Project increases young people’s understanding of the EU and its role in protecting citizens’ rights, this can be clearly seen in the testimonies/stories directly submitted by participants and collected from the Crocus Club and our Crocus Survey.
Start Date: 01-08-2017
End Date: 31-01-2019
Duration in months: 18
Total Budget: 100000
Details
Year (Call): 2017
Country:
Activity: Strand1: European Remembrance
Coordinator
Organisation: HOLOCAUST EDUCATIONAL TRUST OF IRELAND
Address: LOWER FITZWILLIAM STR CLIFTON HOUSE
Postal Code: 2
City: DUBLIN
Country:
Region: Dublin
Organisation type: Civil Society Organisation
PIC: 938313690
ISTITUTO PER LA STORIA DELLA RESISTENZA E DELLA SOCIETÀ CONTEMPORANEA IN PROVINCIA DI MODENA
Address: VIA CIRO MENOTTI 137
Postal Code: 41121
Region: Emilia-Romagna
City: MODENA
PIC: 940174538
STEP BY STEP PROGRAM FOUNDATION
Address: BOULEVARD HRISTO BOTEV 21
Postal Code: 1606
Region: София (столица) (Sofia (stolitsa))
City: SOFIA
PIC: 941110006
JAVNA USTANOVA SPOMEN PODRUCJE JASENOVAC
Address: BRACE RADIC 147
Postal Code: 44324
Region: Sisačko-moslavačka županija
City: JASENOVAC
PIC: 938531067
THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF GREECE
Address: NIKIS 39
Postal Code: 10557
Region: Aττική (Attiki)
City: ATHENS
PIC: 937685324
SZEMBENÉZÉS FOUNDATION
Address: IGMÁNDI UTCA 33
Postal Code: 1112
Region: Budapest
City: BUDAPEST
PIC: 931052367
THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE
Address: U STARÉ ŠKOLY 1
Postal Code: 110 00
Region: Hlavní město Praha
City: PRAGUE
PIC: 938401572
FUNDACJA GALICIA JEWISH HERITAGE INSTITUTE
Address: DAJWÓR 18
Postal Code: 31-052
Region: Małopolskie
City: KRAKÓW
PIC: 948344848
THE SCOUT ASSOCIATION OF MALTA
Address: TRIQ EMMANUEL S. TONNA SQUARE CONCREVE-BERNARD MEMORIAL HALL
Postal Code: FRN 1480
Region: Malta
City: FLORIANA
PIC: 947556141
SLOVENSKE NARODNE MUZEUM
Address: VAJANSKEHO NABREZIE 2
Postal Code: 810 06
Region: Slovakia Extra-Regio NUTS 3
City: BRATISLAVA
PIC: 984922287
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