Summer school "Living between cultures"

Summer school "Living Between Cultures" initiated by Institute for Democracy, Media and Culture took place in Voskopoja with the participation of 21 students from "Fan S. Noli" University in Korca who developed theoretical and practical competences over studies that were planned for this project under the supervision of the experts: Jonila Godole, Fatmiroshe Xhemalaj, Edlira Agolli, Eriseld Kalemaj and Maria Dojçe.

On first day the students got to learn about the IDMC mission, the aim and objectives of summer school. They had over four open lessons on program subjects and later the students were divided into teams where each of them had a specific role and a team mentor.

The second day was offline interviewing day. During the interviews, the students were closer to the advantages and disadvantages of Macedonian minority in the Republic of Albania. They learned some aspects of socio-cultural, socio economic, socio-political coexistence and the principles of human rights concretized in this community.

On the third day of summer school they continued with teamwork on interviews. More concretely the first and third teams conducted interviews in the village of Bezmisht while the second and fourth groups had the interviews in Gorica e Vogel village where they got six interviews.

During the fourth day of summer school the students worked in the area of Prespa in the Republic of North Macedonia where they went beyond the comparison of the living reality between border areas. The students were confronted with conflicting facts that coexisted at the same time periods among the residents living in the border area.

At the end of this summer school, the students discussed their expectations about the work with interviews, their essential foundations of data and the opportunity of continuing this project on a second phase.