Dear Friends,
We are delighted you are interested in the 2025 Centropa Summer Academy (CSA), which will take place in Budapest and Belgrade, 9-16 July; details at https://www.centropa.org/en/csa2025. We will invite up to 65 teachers from 15 countries.
Applications for Europeans and Israelis are open from March 1 to April 1, 2025.
We welcome applications from primary and high school teachers, museum educators and NGO educators. Preference will go to those who have used Centropa materials and show willingness and ability to use the material gained during the Centropa Summer Academy in their Holocaust and/or Jewish history education work.
Please note that the Centropa Summer Academy will be held entirely in English, without interpretation into other languages. Therefore, proficient English is required.
We will cover travel costs up to 300€ for European participants and up to 400€ for Israeli participants. We will also cover hotel and meals during the CSA (except for dinner on four free evenings).
Once accepted, each participant is required to pay a €50 registration fee.
ALL participants must purchase travel medical/trip insurance and cover transportation to and from airports.
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The deadline for applications is April 1, 2025, 11:59pm CET.
Questions? Contact the Centropa Hamburg Team at hamburg@centropa.org
Warmly,
Your Centropa Team
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How would you define your role as an educator? Choose the one that describes your primary role. *
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What subject(s) do you teach or supervise? *
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We'd like to learn about your school, district, or organization and the students or population you serve. *
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What grades/ classes do you teach? How many students do you teach?
If you are a museum educator or work for an NGO, describe your role and the educational programs you run. *
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What do you consider the most important thing in teaching about Jewish history and the Holocaust? Why? How do you educate about these topics? *
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What challenges have you faced in teaching about the Holocaust and/ or Jewish history? *
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Describe a lesson, class activity, or project on Jewish history or the Holocaust that you have designed and implemented.
If your lesson is in written format, please send it as a single PDF file to hamburg@centropa.org with the subject line: "CSA 2025 Project Example". *
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Have you used Centropa materials before? If so, please briefly describe which resources you used, which class you used them in, and the lesson or project you created.
If you have not used Centropa materials before, please demonstrate your understanding of what we offer educators by completing the following:
a) Go to the interviews at www.centropa.org and choose a country.
b) Select a biography and explain how you would use it in your class or work.
c) Please watch one film from our film page (www.centropa.org/en/films) and describe how you might incorporate it into a lesson.
If you have a Centropa lesson in PDF format, please send it to hamburg@centropa.org with the subject line: "CSA 2025 Centropa Lesson." *
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What are the two main reasons you want to attend the 2025 Centropa Summer Academy? What do you hope to take home from it? *
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If you are accepted, what will be your personal and professional goals during the CSA? What do you believe Centropa can offer you that other organizations cannot? *
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How did you find out about the 2025 Centropa Summer Academy? *
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As a non-profit with a small staff, Centropa relies on our community of educators to expand our educational network and resources. For this reason, we ask you to read the following and acknowledge that, if you are accepted to the 2025 Centropa Summer Academy, by filling out this application you agree to partnering with us in the following ways:
- use Centropa's resources in your classroom or school district in the coming school year; if you use any lesson plans or projects from our website in your classes, you will let us know what you used, how you used them, and the students' responses;
- share your lesson, projects, or programs with Centropa at no charge;
- fill out a survey after the Centropa Summer Academy, and another follow-up survey after six months about how you use Centropa - we will use your comments in our reporting to donors;
- introduce Centropa to your colleagues;
- you give us permission to use photographs we take of you for our PR materials and reports to the supporting foundations;
- if you publish exhibitions, websites, theater productions, or anything else that has been generated by your participation in our programs, you agree to use our name and logo (which we will send you upon request);
- if you contact any speaker you have met through Centropa you will inform us.
Please indicate your acceptance of these terms by clicking below. *
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By applying to the Centropa Summer Academy, you agree that your personal details given above will be shared and processed by Centropa according to our Privacy Policy (http://www.centropa.org/centropa-privacy-policy). *
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I want to receive newsletters or regular updates from Centropa by e-mail. *
Thank you for applying to the 2025 Centropa Summer Academy in Budapest & Belgrade from 9-16 July. We will inform all applicants by late-April.
Your Centropa Team