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? Goethe-Institut Bucharest, Calea Dorobanți 32
Training for the Contact Zone (TCZ) is a European project dedicated to rethinking adult education, with a special focus on museums and heritage learning.
This event invites practitioners, policymakers, artists and mediators, cultural workers to explore how arts, culture, and heritage spaces can function as Contact Zones: not as places where differences are erased, but as spaces where they are acknowledged, engaged and transformed into something shared.
? 2 December 2025
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? 3 December 2025
? Conference ? ? 9:00 - 17:30
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Across Europe, societies are facing major challenges: increasing political polarisation, shrinking civic and cultural spaces, and growing distrust in democratic processes. In this context, cultural and heritage work—carried out by institutions, educators, artists, cultural practitioners, and policymakers—plays a vital role in shaping shared and liveable realities.
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How can we create spaces that foster reflection, dialogue, and collective agency, even in the face of conflicting perspectives or contested histories?
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The conference introduces the Contact Zone as a framework for navigating these complexities. A Contact Zone is any physical, social, or symbolic space where people with different experiences, identities, and worldviews come together. Such encounters can be difficult, but they open the door to mutual understanding, shared agency, and collective sense-making/ meaning-making.
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? Reflect on the rise of polarisation and anti-democratic shifts across Europe and their relationship with culture and heritage.
Explore the TCZ curriculum as a tested framework for inclusive and participatory practices.
? Discuss how TCZ tools can strengthen cultural democracy, civic engagement in local realities and intercultural exchange.
? Consider how methodologies developed in the TCZ can inform cultural policies and contribute to structural changes.
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More than a metaphor, the Contact Zone challenges us to rethink how we engage with difference, heritage, and power structures. By equipping practitioners and institutions with critical, creative, and participatory tools, the TCZ project contributes to a more inclusive and responsive cultural governance.
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? It shares insights from a year of cross-border collaboration in which the TCZ approach was developed, tested, and refined.
? It opens new space for dialogue, connecting experience with advocacy to shape future policies and practices.
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Registration Form click here ? https://tinyurl.com/69e8yfdb
Participation in the conference is free of charge and open to all interested professionals working in the fields of arts, culture, education, heritage, and community engagement.
? Spaces are limited, so we encourage early registration to ensure your participation.
? Training for the Contact Zone is co-funded by the European Union within the framework of Erasmus+ Adult Education.
Organisations part of the Training for the Contact Zone project team:
? Culture Action Europe (BE) – lead for networking and knowledge sharing;
? Conexiones improbables (ES) – lead for curriculum development and pilot in Vitoria;
? Etz Hayyim Synagogue (GR) – lead for the training on interculturality;
? Goethe-Institut (RO) – lead for communication and pilot in Bucharest;
? Humán Platform (HU) – lead for the training on post-communism;
? PELE (PT) – lead for training and training on post-colonialism;
? Herengracht 401 (NL) – lead for project management and pilot in Amsterdam.
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Event Venue
Goethe-Institut Bucuresti, Grădinița Nr. 85, Calea Dorobanților, 010573 București, România, Bucharest, Romania
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