Each year in Poland the Methodical Conference for teachers “Chess in School” takes place. This year Polish Chess Federation decided to broaden the program of it and invited many guests from different countries.
The event held between May 18th to May 21st was attended by more than 150 teachers, head teachers and many others involved into CIS movement.
The event was opened by Wlodzimierz Paszyński – Deputy President of Warsaw. Mirosław Sielatycki – Deputy Director of the Warsaw Education Office – presented a development of the project in Warsaw primary schools. Jesper Hall – the Chairman of the ECU Educational Commission, has welcomed all participants on behalf of the ECU with a short presentation of the CIS movement in Europe. It can’t be missed to mention Mr. Edgar Ghazaryan, Ambassador of Republic of Armenia visited the opening ceremony and made the event more notable.
The list of the lecturers was quite long and included presentations by Martin Huba, Luis Blasco, Jonathan Bryant, Jerry Nash, Pep Suarez, Mirosław Baum, Joanna Zbroniec, Anna Harazińska, Anna Świć, Bartosz Tracz, Dawid Marszalek, Beata Piotrowska, Jacek Przybylski, Adam Bukojemski.
According to the visitors the Conference in Warsaw was very successful and gave all participants an excellent opportunity to share with the ideas and get a new experience. The organizer had provided for the visitors the tour to the Copernicus Science Centre
Those who want to feel the climate of the event please have a look at the photo gallery from the event.
The Conference was co-financed by The Ministry of Sport and Tourism and The Education of Office of Warsaw.
