Lokalnie, interkulturalnie

“Locally, inter-culturally” is a project dedicated to people who want to broaden their knowledge of foreign languages and learn basics of Ukrainian, Spanish or Italian. The meetings are organised as weekly language cafés where participants can socialise while learning together. The classes are free of charge and participation does not require registration.

Activities to be carried out in the project:

• Weekly language cafés (Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian) – in total 123 language meetings
• 3 meetings with a traveller – meetings with travellers and members of international voluntary organisations
• Integration festival for the locals and people from abroad to be held in Łódź
• Family picnic with games and activities to end the summer holidays
• Week of Foreign Languages
• Promotion of international volunteering, overseas mobilities and European programmes at universities in łódzkie province
• Thematic event: Day of the dead in different cultures which are different from the Polish one
• Thematic event: Christmas and New Year customs and additional festivities, and legends in different
• countriesCreating Christmas cards for lonely people and collecting toys, sweets, clothes etc. to create parcels for children from the orphanage
• Collection of old books for the library or for people suffering from social crisis

• Joint reading of foreign literature in one of the libraries in Łódź
• Language revision for high school graduates 
• Basic Polish classes for foreigners
• “New year, new me” – Online promotion of volunteering and e-volunteering in line with the mission of the LEVEL UP

What we do during the project:

• We provide workshops in Ukrainian, Spanish and Italian
• We support learning of languages other than English.
• We integrate people from different cultures/social groups
• We demonstrate our commitment to volunteering
• We organise language events
• We organise a language picnic
• We bring other cultures and customs closer to the inhabitants of Łódź and łódzkie province