Project title – CoREM: “Collective Remembrance: Engaging Youth Through Curatorial Practices”

Funding Institution: European Commission under the CERV-2024-CITIZENS-REM programme.

Total grant amount: €372,505, including €39,200 allocated to the University of Wrocław.

Description: The project focuses on developing methods to open up Holocaust and genocide education to the voices of young people. The project is coordinated by Prof. Macarena García-González from Pompeu Fabra University.
The University of Wrocław is represented by Dr. hab. Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, prof. UWr. (project leader on behalf of UWr), Dr. hab. Irena Barbara Kalla, prof. UWr, and Dr. Katarzyna Liszka.

The project involves collaboration with the following institutions: History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Holocaust Fund of the Jews from Macedonia, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Consorci del Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation.

Project duration: 01.09.2025 – 31.08.2027

Seen and Heard: Young People’s Voices and Freedom of Expression, financed by Erasmus+ KA220-HED – Cooperation partnerships in higher education 

Seen and Heard: Young People’s Voices and Freedom of Expression is a three-year project (2023-2026) seeking to establish the full life cycle (design-implementation-evaluation) of a just and equitable social movement based on youth’s freedom of expression. This is achieved through the design and development of creative protest that places youth at risk of marginalization and exclusion at the center of political dialogue through blended learning experiences and sustained support from researchers, educators, artists, activists, publishers, and policy makers. We are also interested in the role of children’s literature and culture as facilitating young people’s engagement in civic and political matters. Collaborating with the University of Malta, Humboldt University of Berlin and Amnesty International Poland, we explore how children’s books can be used in cross-sectoral projects for children’s and human rights. The total allocated sum is EUR 400 000. The coordinator and academic lead of the project on behalf of the University of Wrocław is Prof. Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak; Dr hab. Mateusz Świetlicki acted as co-investigator in the period of 01.09.2023-23.08.2024.

More information: https://seenandheardproject.eu/

Conscious and unconscious attitude towards a foreign accent in the Polish-German context (ZAS Berlin and University of Wrocław)

When listening to others, we automatically form certain mental impressions of our interlocutors, particularly when they speak with a foreign accent. These representations might be surprising even for ourselves and may not align well with our conscious beliefs or declarations. In our project, we will be using experimental techniques like the Implicit Association Test to gain a deeper understanding of explicit and implicit attitudes towards speakers.

We form personal impressions of our interlocutors based on our voice. A foreign accent can influence these judgments. Our subconscious judgments can surprise us because they don’t necessarily match our conscious beliefs and statements. Our project uses experimental techniques, including the Latent Associations Test, to better understand the role of foreign language accent in subconscious and conscious judgments about speakers. The sum total of funds allocated in EUR 65530.

Grammatical tinnitus and its role in the perception of foreign language accent. A comparison of German and Polish (GRANITUS) 

Our project has the overarching goal of gaining more insight into the perception processes of foreign language accents. We aim to show that the perception is not only based on the linguistic signal, but it is a much more complex phenomenon. In our study we will examine factors that relate to (i) the signal, (ii) the speaker, and (iii) the listener in the German-Polish context. Of particular importance are the following questions: 

Question 1: If both phonetic and grammatical features influence the perception of a foreign language accent, are there any differences in their importance? Are we more sensitive to phonetic peculiarities and do we turn a deaf ear to grammatical mistakes? 

Question 2: To what extent does the attitude of the listener towards the speaker play a role in the perception of a foreign language accent? Does the information about the speaker’s origin also influence the perception? 

Question 3: What role does the linguistic background of the listener play in the perception of a foreign language accent? Is there a difference between mono- and multilingual listeners? 

To answer these questions, we are planning a series of perception and event-related potentials (ERP) experiments.