Individual thematic sections have been developed by experts and educators, including those from the University of Lodz. The authors of the content are dr hab. Tomasz Kamiński, prof. of UL ("Migration" section) and dr Marcin Frenkel ("Social Media" section) from the Faculty of International and Political Studies, as well as dr Olga Łabendowicz ("Care for the planet" section) from the Faculty of Philology, who is the project coordinator at the Liberté Foundation!
The dedicated online platform is a comprehensive e-coursebook that contains ready-made teaching materials, topics for classroom discussions, interactive content, key issues and concepts, and lesson exercises. A teacher is given full freedom as to which materials to use.
Topics discussed within the project include key areas thanks to which the teenagers will be able to understand ways of functioning the contemporary world. Among the topics, there are: poverty, consumption, work, environment contamination, inequalities, migration, health, social networks, elections, media and propaganda.
Each chapter contains individual lessons elaborated in such a way so as to include economics, ethics and civic mindedness. The discussed issues take into consideration three approaches: at an individual, at a society and at a global level.
All the topics have been elaborated based on the core curriculum, simultaneously being its natural supplementation and extension. The proposed lessons present the discussed topics in accordance with the idea of integrated teaching of complex issues in an innovative and engaging way. Nevertheless, depending on the taught subject, a teacher can freely use the available materials to adapt them to their own and students' needs.
The overriding goal of the project is to facilitate the work of teachers engaged in shaping minds and broadening horizons of young citizens on their way towards conscious development. The elaborated materials are free of charge.
Naukaobywatela.pl project is coordinated by the Liberte! Foundation in cooperation with the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI) under Erasmus+ programme.
University of Lodz is one of the biggest universities in Poland. Its mission is to educate top-class scientists and specialists in numerous fields of humanities, social sciences, natural and exact sciences as well as health sciences. UniLodz cooperates with business, both at the staff level by providing qualified employees as well as at the scientific level, by offering its know-how to enterprises from various areas of economy. University of Lodz is an academic institution open to the world – the number of its international students is constantly growing, while its Polish students, thanks to Exchange programmes, get to know Europe, Asia and travel overseas. The University is a part of Lodz, it operates for and with the community of Lodz by getting involved in many socio-cultural projects.
Edit: Promotion Centre, UL