Remembrance Exchange

Webinar series to promote knowledge exchange and inspiring practices

The Remembrance Exchange webinar series presents initial project outcomes and highlights collaborations between formal and non-formal educational institutions to strengthen remembrance education. It offers a platform to share experiences, reflect on remembrance culture and exchange ideas and practices.

The series consists of three webinars:

  • Webinar 1: Holocaust and Human Rights: New Tools for Educators (English)
  • Webinar 2: The Memory of the Holocaust and Young People: Challenges for a New Approach to Education (English)
  • Webinar 3: Shoah e diritti umani: nuovi strumenti per insegnanti ed educatori (Italian)

The webinars can be attended and booked independently. Find all details about the webinars and registration below.

Participants can request a certificate of attendance provided by the University of Trieste. To receive a certificate of attendance from the University of Trieste, please make sure to register so that all necessary information is available

Webinar 1: Holocaust and Human Rights: New Tools for Educators

You will receive the Zoom Link with the registration confirmation as well.

This webinar presents two handbooks developed within the CU REMEMBER project, offering practical tools for both teachers and non-formal education practitioners working in the field of remembrance and human rights education.

Join us to explore:

  • Guided Tours through Science and Remembrance in Trieste: by Francesca Rizzatto and Federica Sgorbissa (SISSA Medialab)

The Guided Tour handbook is designed to help teachers and educators organize and implement two different guided tours for high school students, through science and remembrance in Trieste. These tours reconstruct the stories of people from Trieste’s scientific community whose lives were profoundly impacted by Nazi-Fascist anti-Jewish persecution

  • Holocaust and Human Rights: A Guidebook for Educators: by Tullia Catalan and Matteo Perissinotto (Università degli Studi di Trieste (DiSU))

This transnational handbook providing selected topics, expert insights and practical guidance to support teaching and learning remembrance education. The Guidebook is intended for those working with both children and aolescents.

Both publications encourage critical engagement with the past and support inclusive, reflective approaches to education across formal and non-formal contexts.

Webinar 2: The Memory of the Holocaust and Young People: Challenges for a New Approach to Education

You will receive the Zoom Link with the registration confirmation as well.

This webinar explores the University of Vienna as a historical site and showcases innovative approaches to Holocaust remembrance with young learners developed within the CU REMEMBER project. It highlights activities with primary and secondary school students designed to make historical sites and the past meaningful for different age groups.

The webinar presents activities for

  • Remembrance education in primary schools – connecting the past and present at the Campus of the University of Vienna: by Chris Gary and Thomas Troy (Vienna University Children’s Office)

Primary school students explored the University of Vienna campus through a child-friendly guided tour, learning about key personalities such as Marianne Beth and Marie Jahoda and visiting the Marpe Lanefesch memorial, while reflecting on the questions of what, how and why we remember.

  • Interrupted Academic Lives: The impact of the Nazi era on the University of Vienna trough ten biographies: by Veronika Schallhart and Thiemo Kronlechner (University of Vienna)

Upper secondary school students first engaged in an interactive campus scavenger hunt supported by an app and then researched the biographies of individuals expelled from the University of Vienna during the Nazi period, producing videos documenting their stories and conducting interviews with descendants or experts.

  • A Sound Foundation for Remembrance Education – Introducing Primary School Children to Historical Realities: by Katharina Wurzinger and Florian Edlinger (GEDENKDIENST – Association for historical and political education and international dialogue

This presentation offers insights into introducing primary school children to historical realities through age-appropriate methods that foster early historical thinking and reflection. It presents the pilot “History Awareness Week” program, in which participants explore Vienna’s past through diverse life stories and engage with history using a variety of approaches and activities.

This webinar is particularly valuable for educators and practitioners interested in using historical sites and interactive methods to engage young audiences with remembrance and human rights education.

Webinar 3: Shoah e diritti umani: nuovi strumenti per insegnanti ed educatori
Corso di formazione per docenti della scuola primaria e secondaria di primo e secondo grado 

L’evento è organizzato dal Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Università di Trieste e dal Comune di Trieste, Museo della Risiera di San Sabba – Monumento Nazionale, in collaborazione con SISSA Medialab, gli altri partner del progetto CU Remember, e il Museo della comunità ebraica di Trieste “Carlo e Vera Wagner”.

Descrizione:

L’incontro è pensato per presentare nuovi strumenti e percorsi didattici per studenti dagli 8 ai 18 anni, con l’obiettivo non solo di sensibilizzare sulla memoria dell’Olocausto e dei crimini del nazifascismo, ma anche di promuovere lo sviluppo di una coscienza critica e democratica, inclusiva e rispettosa dell’alterità.

Durante l’incontro verrà presentata la Guida risultato dei workshop tenuti nel 2025 con educatori, insegnanti e professionisti provenienti da Austria e Italia. Il vademecum è destinato a chi lavora con bambini e con gli adolescenti.

Nello stesso incontro verrà presentato anche un altro manuale ideato per aiutare insegnanti ed educatori a organizzare e realizzare due diversi percorsi guidati per studenti delle scuole superiori. Questi percorsi ricostruiscono le storie di esponenti della comunità scientifica triestina le cui vite sono state profondamente segnate dalla persecuzione antiebraica nazifascista.

Per la richiesta dell’attestato di partecipazione è necessario compilare il form linkato nella sezione registrazione.

[The CU-REMEMBER project is supported the European Network of Universities for Children – EUCU.NET. For this reason, the EUCU.NET registration system will be used to register for events]