Pedro Arrupe Formation Center for Educational Leaders 

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This site in an international section of the ARRUPE CENTER official web site. To see our national activities go to POLISH VERSION (upper rigt corner) - "wersja polska".

coming sessions

International Jesuit Education Leadership Program

PEER MEDIATION IN SCHOOLS

Gdynia, October 8-10, 2010

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JESUIT SCHOOLS DIRECTORY

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DIRECTORY OF JESUIT WEB SITES

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We are winners of a national prize
Pro Publico Bono 2004

and we also received a prize

KREATYWNI w myśleniu i działaniu 2007

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One of the presentations at the last session of the Social Week (Brussels, August 28, 2010)

latest news

Jesuit European Social Week in Brussels
Social Justice Secretariat | 2010-08-31 18:22:45

The Jesuit European Social Week took place in Brussels from 24 to 28 August. For three days, representatives of the social apostolate - province delegates, social centre staff and people involved in specific works such as JRS or the Worker's Mission - listened to experiences from the ground as well as to inputs from experts on insertion communities, schools for disadvantaged pupils, social research and Ignatian advocacy. Some of the emerging focus areas of the social apostolate in Europe are: the relationship between the intellectual apostolate and social commitment, the creation of a network of European social centres, insertion communities for Jesuits in formation, and relations between the European and African social apostolate.

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For a better school climate - conference in Bulgaria
Sophia, August 11, 2010 | 2010-08-28 15:23:32

International conference entitled FOR A BETTER SCHOOL CLIMATE took place in Sophia (Bulgaria) in August 9-11, 2010. Participants came from schools, universities and ngo's from Bulgaria, Lithuania, Estonia, Czech Republic, Poland, and Serbia. Conference was organized by Madara Foundation and financed by the Open Society Institute. On the third day of the conference the INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF EDUCATORS FOR A BETTER SCHOOL CLIMATE have been established. The internet site to facilitate exchange of experience and innovative solutions will be created soon. On the photo below: professor Irena Smetackova from the Carl University in Prague.

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Spiritual retreat in the Nazareth Center in Ukraine
Drohobycz, August 2010 | 2010-08-28 15:12:00

Wojciech Zmudzinski SJ offered a spiritual retreat for social workers and therapists working in the center for drug addicts and alcoholics in Nazareth center close to Drohobycz (Western Ukraine). Among participants were also employees of the Caritas. Thanks to the hospitality of Fr. Ivan Hnativ and Fr. Igor Kozankiewicz, director of the Arrupe Center had an opportunity to visit IJELP student sister Euvrosinia and see historical places of Drohobycz.

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From Belarus to the Arrupe Center for internship
Gdynia, July 19-31, 2010 | 2010-08-28 14:45:20

In July 2010, Ija Smirnova from Minsk came to the Arrupe Center to help us in international networking project. She was sponsored by the Polish-Amarican Foundation of Freedom and Education for Democracy Foundation. All expenses connected to her internship were covered by the RITA program. Ija Smirnova visited also other nongovernmental organizations and worked with disadvantaged children from Poland and Lithuania. On the photo below: Ija Smirnova, Elżbieta Kowalik, and Beata Samojłowicz - president of the Borussia Association, in front of the Borussia office in Olsztyn.

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