Foundation

Foundation

St. Jadwiga Foundation, founded in 2002, is located in a historic Manor in Morawa, once owned by the von Wietersheim-Kramsta family, whose descendants are the co-founders of the Foundation.

It was established in order to implement actions to build a peaceful Europe, based on formal and informal education, with an emphasis on artistic, historical and political education, including people with disabilities.

The goal of the Foundation is educational activity, supporting civic, cultural and educational initiatives, especially those aimed at understanding between nations, generations and European integration, as well as the formation of a civic society. We implement them, among others by running a kindergarten and the Morawa International Meeting Center, as well as by implementing educational projects for the local community and people of senior age.

The idea of the Foundation is to open up to the local community, create a space for dialogue, activities to bring nations and generations closer, in particular on the Polish-Czech-German border, integration and European and civic education of generations, and building a civic society. Every year, the Foundation organizes international youth exchanges, seminars, conferences, artistic and ecological workshops. She has been awarded many times for her actions for understanding beyond divisions and European integration, in 2002 she received the Polish-German Prize awarded by both countries for merits for good neighborliness and cooperation, in 2015 she received the Silesian Cultural Prize awarded by Lower Saxony.

Core business

The main subject of activity is activities supporting education, from preschool education, through education of young people, to education of the local community and adults. We are open to the initiatives of other organizations, psychological workshops, meetings of educators, debates, events addressed to the local community, and joint cultural events are held here.


St. Jadwiga deals with:

  1. 1
    Preschool education
    for 25 years the Foundation has been running the Private Kindergarten of St. Jadwiga.
  2. 2
    Youth Education
    runs the International Meeting Center, implements projects with international youth groups.
  3. 3
    Senior Education

    implements projects activating the elderly from the funds of the Ministry of Family and Social Policy

  4. 4
    Activation of the local community
    trains local leaders, undertakes initiatives for volunteering. It implements projects under the Civic Initiative Funds to improve the quality of life of the local community and develop its activity.
  5. 5
    International Education
    organizes national and international projects for children and youth, language courses, art workshops, seminars, conferences and intergenerational meetings. The issues raised include understanding between nations, breaking stereotypes, building intergenerational bonds.
  6. 6
    Activities in the field of patriotic and historical education
    implements intergenerational projects from the Niepodległa program, based on the means of artistic expression: theater, reportage.
  7. 7
    Ecological education
    implements projects aimed at hortiotherapists, people with disabilities, seniors and youth from schools with a horticultural and agricultural profile.
  8. 8
    Art education
    we conduct ceramic workshops for children, teenagers and adults, organize artistic events (exhibitions, art symposiums, The International Art Symposium "There was, is and will be”), and cooperate with art schools and academies.
  9. 9
    Music education
    the Summer Academy of Music and the International Violin Competition is held in Morawa
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