Consolidating Democratic Education in Romanian Schools: Digital Tools for Enhancing Constitutional Freedoms

26.02.2025 / Publications Authors: Ștefan Cibian   At one of our FRI Media Lab workshops, students did not know what World War II was, who Hitler was, or what happened during the Holocaust. That illustrates a specific difficulty in teaching history, as well as broader challenges faced by post-totalitarian societies...

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Globalization and its Impact on Romania and Italy’s Rural Areas: The Role of EU Structural Funds

12.02.2025 / Expert Comments The processes of globalization have caused significant transformations in the world economy, significantly affecting both urban and rural areas. The rural regions of Transylvania, part of Romania, have been no exception, experiencing phenomena such as industrial relocation, migration to cities or other countries, and the transformation...

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Sustainable Tourism Between Valorisation and Overcrowding: The Italian Case of Marche

21.01.2025 / Expert Comments Between rolling hills, historic villages, and breathtaking beaches, the Marche region stands as one of Italy’s true gems. A precious treasure whose growing popularity as a tourist destination raises a crucial question: how can the influx of visitors be managed without compromising the natural beauty and...

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Building the Future of Local Communities Through Collaboration: Participatory Foresight & Tools for Sustainable Community Learning

04.04.2025 / News We kicked off the Community Foresight meeting with the network partners who arrived last night in Făgăraș. We’re at the House of Foundations and Associations of Țara Făgărașului, hosted by the Țara Făgărașului Community Foundation. Our agenda includes: an imagining exercise about local communities in Romania in...

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Share Location: Time Travel to “Grandparents’ Land”

05.11.2024 / News How do we learn from the past to better understand the present? The “Țara Bunicilor” (Grandparents’ Land) workshop gave children and young people the opportunity to explore recent history through interactive experiences and role-playing games. Starting with the rigged elections of 1946 and continuing with experiments on...

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The Share Location Tour: Memory, Resistance, Healing

15.10.2024 / News End of project: Share Location – The Făgăraș Resistance reached six counties this year. The documentary-theater show brought the powerful stories of women in the anti-communist resistance to the public, transforming each performance into a community dialogue about memory, suffering and collective healing. Between June and August...

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