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• 5 school-by-school social centres continue intergenerational education projects
• 150 children will benefit from school support and vocational and personal development activities
• 40 seniors have the opportunity to sign up as volunteers in community centres
The Generations national program, implemented by The Margareta of Romania Royal Foundation, continues in 2024 in 5 social centres in the localities of Bonțida, Blaj, Buziaș, Dezmir and Bucharest, with the support of Fundația Bosch. The Generation Centres will receive grants to develop their portfolio of educational activities and receive training and mentoring to begin leveraging local resources. For the third consecutive year, seniors are invited to join after-school social centres to provide homework support or get involved in educational activities organized for children in the community.
Five organizations, working in support of children from disadvantaged backgrounds in five different communities, will benefit from resources and knowledge to implement intergenerational education in social centres. The Generation Centres create a space where children and seniors have the opportunity to collaborate and become or resource for each other, thus increasing the quality of life and relationships. Capitalizing on their professional experience, talent and personal time, 40 seniors will be co-opted as volunteers, to get involved in educational, vocational or socialization activities, in support of 150 children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Generation Centres bring a new category of staff to social centres to support non-formal education; through senior volunteers, creates a rich portfolio of activities for the vocational and personal development of children and triggers a change in the way of thinking at the community level in which the potential of the elderly is identified and the role of the social center as social actors that have a valuable contribution in the community.
In order for the services to be more accessible and visible among the interested categories, but also better supported by the entire community, the staff of the centres will be involved in a training and mentor process through which they will build the necessary skills for the purpose of leveraging local resources.
On the International Childhood Cancer Day (February 15), our partners from the P.A.V.E.L. Association. also officially launched the 3 volumes of the Auxiliary of non-formal activities intended for primary, secondary and high school patient students within the educational project Brain Station.
In the development of the auxiliary containing the curriculum and activity sheets necessary for the involvement of the student, a chronic patient, in non-formal didactic activities, the Brain station model was used, coordinated by Dr. Carrie Shiraki-Sakaino at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Hawaii, which provides a “classroom atmosphere in the educational program of the hospital. Brain Station also promotes a smooth transition from hospital school to home school. The activities/lessons are based on the pillars of cognitive rehabilitation (concentration, memory, language and executive functions), also integrating the fields of Language, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies.
With the support and involvement of Fundația Bosch România, all the Romanian language and mathematics courses offered by the Teleșcoala program – broadcast on TVR 2 – will also be available on Naradix, along with a series of tests necessary to assess knowledge for eighth grade students.
Through a joint partnership between Fundația Bosch România, Narada and TVR, education becomes much more accessible for students. Thus, with the support of Fundația Bosch, teachers from all over the country film interactive content, adapted to the new generations of students, which is broadcast on TVR 2, every day, from Monday to Friday, from 3:30 p.m. The main topics covered in the National Assessment in Romanian language and mathematics are widely debated in the TV show. All these courses will also be found on NaradiX, along with tests that evaluate students’ knowledge.
“We are pleased to continue this tripartite partnership for the second school year in a row. We set out together, aware that the digital environment influences the learning process for today’s generations. NaradiX is the open source platform that allows the students to learn at their own pace, to access Teleșcoala courses whenever they want, to test their knowledge so that they can find out in real time what the level of knowledge they have acquired is. Moreover, NaradiX clearly appeals to students, as there is a gamification reward system.” – Simona Beldiman, Executive Director, Fundația Bosch România
In addition, all students who enter the platform, at the end of each set of lessons and tests are rewarded with naradins, virtual coins with which they can buy a lot of items from the platform shop. Andreea, a student from Satu Mare, was one of the most diligent and studious students, who won a laptop after completing the most courses on NaradiX in the Teleschool program. She is preparing hard for the National Assessment and promises to be a serious competitor this season, especially since she is currently in the 8th grade and has even more motivation to learn.
We are starting a new partnership with the Little People Romania Association, which has 20 years of experience in programs dedicated to patients, offering a series of high-quality emotional support services in the clinical environment, complex events for young cancer survivors, material support offered to the wards pediatric oncology, constant care and involvement from a dedicated team.
We support the 14th edition of the Temerarii Camp, which will take place between September 4-8, in Șuior, Baia Sprie, Marmureș. The camp will bring together more than 70 young cancer survivors from all over the country. Temerarii are one big family, a trademark and a number associated with survival.
The theme and motto of the camp is Fit4Life. The goal of the camp is to strengthen health literacy and promote healthy lifestyles with practical training and advice on nutrition, regulated physical activity that improves physical and mental health.
We are happy to be part of the 11th edition of the festival, Haferland Week, the largest event in Romania dedicated to promoting the culture and traditions of the Transylvanian Saxon community, which will take place from August 3 to 6, 2023, in 10 communities: Archita, Saschiz, Homorod, Rupea, Criț, Roadeș, Meșendorf, Cloașterf, Bunești and Viscri. The theme of this year’s edition of the festival is “Sustainability in the cultural landscape of Haferland”.
On August 5 and 6, Fundația Bosch România organizes 3 creative workshops for children and parents in Meșendorf and Criț. The workshops for DIY and weaving stories from plants and flowers found their inspiration in the architecture of the area and the natural heritage of Oatland.
For the second consecutive year, Fundația Bosch România supports Boovie, the book-trailer festival that starts on July 25, in Brașov. This year’s theme is “The Book of New Beginnings”. Of the 555 teams that registered between February and March, 494 completed the book-trailers and, after a first selection, 385 teams remained in the competition.
Over 2,000 middle and high school students and teachers, some of them volunteers, will be able to participate in over 50 financial education, journalism, theater and public communication workshops, organized by professionals and young actors.
The sponsorship of the Fundatia Bosch România will certainly contribute to laying the foundations for a better future for young people, on which we started working together.
We supported the fifth edition of the Narrative Festival organized by The Curtea Veche Association. The festival took place between March 25-26, at the “Central School” National College in Bucharest. More than 1,000 children, aged between 7 and 14, participated free of charge in more than 100 educational workshops. Debate, acting, improvisation, comics, storytelling, creative writing, but also programming, ecology, astronomy, chemistry and physics or even financial education are among the workshops proposed during the Festival. Parents also had dedicated activities. Through the dialogues organized for them, they found out what are the best methods by which they can encourage the little ones to discover the joy of reading.
Through a partnership with the Narada and TVR, Fundația Bosch România supports the preparation of students who are on the threshold of the National Assessment exams. Starting from March 2023, all courses of the program “Teleșcoala”, broadcast on TVR 2 every day from Monday to Friday, from 15:30, will also be found on Naradix.ro, together with the tests that evaluate the knowledge accumulated. Within Teleșcoala, the main topics covered in the National Assessment in Romanian and mathematics are widely discussed, and English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese language courses are also taught. This interactive content, adapted to the new generations of students, is filmed by a series of teachers from all over the country, with the support of the Fundația Bosch România.
“We have supported the Teleșcoala program since the beginning of this school year because we know how welcome additional access to quality educational content is. However, I felt that the learning process was not complete without the possibility for the students to test the knowledge they were assimilating. And that’s how an idea for this tripartite partnership emerged, which means a fact for students or an extra chance in preparing well for the National Assessment.”, Simona Beldiman, Executive Director, Fundația Bosch România.
As main partner, we support “Green Week in Romania”, the largest free national environmental education program, implemented by the Nature Talks Association.
For 3 months, between March 16 and June 11, more than 6,000 students of grades II-V, from 23 cities will participate in interactive environmental workshops, organized outdoors. Nature Talks trainers will travel across the country and meet dozens of classes of children.
The purpose of the “Green Week in Romanian” program is to give students the opportunity to participate for free in these environmental workshops in nature, where they will have the opportunity to go with trainers in botanical gardens, theme parks, nurseries, greenhouses or outdoor museums. During the workshops, students will learn in an interactive way notions about pollution, selective collection, recycling, energy efficiency, food waste and renewable energy sources.
The launch event took place at the Comic Opera for Children in Bucharest, and the students from School no. 309 were the first to take part in the environmental workshop.
