Winners announced for the "Ask Your Grandparents 3" competition

From 1st of September to 15th of October 2018, 430 high school students with 312 works, from 43 schools all over Albania submitted in the competition their imaginations about the communist past in the form of Essays, Visual arts and Multimedia. After 1 and a half months of competition, the third edition of "Ask Your Grandparents" culminated in a special award ceremony at Tirana International Hotel with many high school students from all over Albania, accompanied by their parents and teachers. 50 young people became winners of study visits to sites of memory in Albania and Southeast Europe.

What was strongly emphasized by the jury composed of personalities such as school curriculum expert, Fatmiroshe Xhemalaj, the well-known journalist, Ilva Tare, the writer, Agron Tufa, who is also director of ISKK, the scriptwriter, Ylljet Aliçka and the multimedia expert, Shpend Bengu, was that the works of this year had an extremely high level considering the age of the participants from 15 to 19 years old.

Firstly the ceremony was greeted by IDMC director, Jonila Godole; KAS director, Walter Glos; the representative of Ministry of Education, Sports & Youth, Tatjana Vuçani the deputy Nora Malaj at the same time member of "Commission on Education and Public Information" and the Head of History Teachers Association, Vojsava Kumbulla.

In addition to the 9 winners chosen by the jury for the study visit to the sites of memory in Southeast Europe, IDMC and KAS surprised the other finalists announcing them as winners of a study visit to sites of memory in Albania.

The winners of the best works who will participate in the study visit in SEE are as following:

NETWORK PRIZE – Xhorda Norja, through a realization in visual arts. Xhorda's work had more than 760 likes on IDMC's Facebook page.

VISUAL ARTS PRIZE – Eni Duka with "Alive".

SPECIAL PRIZE – Erjola Jahaj and Ilirjana Zemani with "End of a Life".

2 MULTIMEDIA PRIZES – "Theatre of the Dictatorship" a group realization by Rexhina Pelivani, Rea Garuli and Adelajda Manushi and "Storm and Love", an individual work by Erlis Spahiu.

BEST ESSAY PRIZE – Doris Balliçi with "Decades of Terror".