The first meeting of the beneficiaries of the international project
The first meeting of the beneficiaries of the international project
On September 17, 2020, the first meeting of the beneficiaries of the international project carried out by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Department of Tourism and Cultural Heritage of Grodno State University. Janki Kupała as part of the Poland-Belarus-Ukraine Cross-Border Cooperation Program 2014-2020 together with the University of Białystok. The project “Preserving the historical and cultural memory of Eliza Orzeszkowa and Ludwik Zamenhof in Grodno and Białystok” started with an introductory videoconference, during which the participants decided on the new order of the project and agreed on significant changes. On the Belarusian side, the videoconference was attended by employees of the project’s working group – Svetlana Hanchar, Witali Karnialuk, Helena Nielepko, Svetlana Fiaduta. The Polish side was represented by prof. Anna Janicka and Dr. Grażyna Dawidowicz.
The project aims to popularize the name and work of the Polish writer Eliza Orzeszkowa, and to develop the tourist potential of Grodno and the Grodno region. An equally important task of the project is to popularize knowledge about Ludwik Zamenhof, a Polish ophthalmologist and linguist known as the creator of Esperanto – the most successful of artificial international languages. His life line closely connected Grodno and Białystok: in these cities he lived and worked, and also realized his dream – to create a language that unites all people
