Projects
Don't Panic! Educational board game
A social innovation in education, designed for primary and secondary school students. Its aim is to develop cooperation, communication and stress-resilience skills through an engaging game simulating a crisis: participants take the role of a task-force responsible for protecting a city from a flood. The project addresses the diagnosed problem of poor cooperation skills and difficulty handling stress among young people, and answers a need expressed by teachers who lack ready-made, attractive teaching tools for these competences. Key outputs include the print-and-play board game, lesson plans, and a multimedia tutorial.
Read more →Presentations about Poles who shaped world history
The project popularizes knowledge about outstanding Poles who played a significant role in world history: Tadeusz Kościuszko, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, and Ignacy Paderewski. Bogdan Goc delivers presentations in English to local communities in the United States, and in Polish to high-school students in Poland. The meetings have an educational, popularizing character — they cover lesser-known facts such as Kościuszko's commitment to the idea of equality, Paderewski's American contacts and activism, and Skłodowska-Curie's contribution to science and her work helping wounded soldiers during World War I.
See presentation →CollMind – Training a neural network to detect disinformation
CollMind is an educational innovation aimed at high-school students and teachers. Its goal is to develop the ability to recognize disinformation, aggression, and stereotypes online. The project combines civic education with modern technology: students do not only learn about the problems of online communication — they also help build an AI tool that detects harmful content. Key outputs included a complete educational model with lesson scenarios and tutorials, plus two software tools: CollMind MINER (collecting online content) and CollMind WARRIOR (classifying it and training the neural network).
See materials →Neural-network training with at-risk youth as a way to counter online aggression
The aim of the project was to engage young people particularly exposed to violence and exclusion in activities that help them better recognize aggression, hate speech and harmful content online. Participants were not just recipients of classes but co-creators of an AI-based solution. The main result was the development and training of an AI tool — based on a neural network — for detecting aggressive online content.
Trampolina-IT
A project that funded robotics and programming classes for children and youth from less affluent Kraków families. Aurea Libertas organizes fundraisers and interactive lessons in which young learners build the skills needed in a digital world.
Collective Intelligence in management
The aim was to popularize knowledge about the use of collective intelligence in business management and innovation. The work included creating e-learning courses and adapting specialized digital tools to the Polish context.
E-Government 2.0 in practice
The aim was to create an innovative, interdisciplinary higher-education program on e-administration. The Foundation's expert work covered building an e-government knowledge base, producing educational materials (a casebook and an e-learning platform), and consulting on the implementation of the web application. Project budget: EUR 226,432.
1989: Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
In 2015 the Aurea Libertas Institute led an educational project carried out by an international consortium with partners from Germany, Slovakia and Romania. The aim was civic education for high-school students. Young people learned about the historical events of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe, then took part in innovative game-design workshops. The result was a board game depicting the Autumn of Nations. Project budget: EUR 55,000.
Ranking of Kraków Local Politicians
A civic audit of Kraków city councillors and district councillors, using an original methodology to assess their activity and achievements. Carried out in partnership with the Civic Foundation and co-financed by the Swiss Block Grant — Fund for NGOs.
Małopolska Polish Holidays
The aim was to raise awareness and strengthen the national identity of young Poles from at-risk environments through patriotic and civic education. The target group was children of care institutions and community centres. The programme included educational trips to sites linked with recent history, a field game, and the publication of a book guide. Budget: CHF 33,119.20.
Skrzydlate Studia Strategic Counselling System
A project promoting the idea of "open studying". It ran an information-and-counselling centre helping academic communities organize trips for foreign scholarships and internships. Between 2011–2014 more than 1,500 people benefited from the counselling.
Series of academic seminars
The seminars covered topics such as energy security, the political heritage of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and contemporary republicanism. Over 500 people attended in total.