Description
The Polish community in Iceland is its largest minority. One of project's goal is to integrate it with Icelandic community, while documenting and promoting Polish and Icelandic cultural heritage (e.g. through recording oral history accounts). This includes exchanging customs and experiences as well as comparing the role of oral history method in European countries. An additional goal is to establish a solid and long term inter institutional cooperation between the applicant and the partner. The project consists of: the oral history research project (in Reykjavik), engaging young researchers, the Polish minority and Icelanders, concerning exchange of culture, tradition and heritage between the two nations; the exhibition promoting research project as well as the life and work of Reykjavik residents of the Polish minority; the international conference on oral history, and a post-conference publication. It will be run in partnership with The Icelandic Research Centre for Innovation & Economic Growth, which will improve on the field of oral history and promotion of cultural diversity.
Summary of project results
The Polish community in Iceland is its largest minority. One of project's goal was to integrate it with Icelandic community, while documenting and promoting Polish and Icelandic cultural heritage (e.g. through recording oral history accounts). This included exchanging customs and experiences as well as comparing the role of oral history method in European countries. An additional goal was to establish a solid and long term inter institutional cooperation between the applicant and the partner. The project consisted of: the oral history research project (in Reykjavik), engaging young researchers, the Polish minority and Icelanders, concerning exchange of culture, tradition and heritage between the two nations; the exhibition promoting research project as well as the life and work of Reykjavik residents of the Polish minority; the international conference on oral history, and a post-conference publication.
Summary of bilateral results
Each partner selected in their countries the research project participants. They cooperated in organizing workshop in Reykjavik and the conference in Wrocław, and in coordinating the work of oral history experts and young researchers from both countries. They both worked on preparing the exhibition and international post-conference publication. On meetings and via Internet they also prepared the promotion strategy of the project and its outcomes, exchanging experiences and gaining new knowledge and competences.