Each year in collaboration with the Bartók Béla Theoretical Highschool our Foundation organizes a talent program for young people, where they can try their skills in social science research, arts or media in a specific topic.
The first major program in this series was launched in 2009, when we launched the Revolutionary Stories – 1989 in Family Memory competition. The task for secondary school students was to record the stories of their family or friends about the events of 1989 and then to adapt them into a journalistic (interview) or fiction (short prose) form. This competition eventually became part of a complex series of ’89 RETRO youth events, which included a Classroom Museum of Communism and the Revolution, which was set up in four cities (Cluj-Napoca, Oradea, Arad and Timisoara) and a virtual DVD of the presentation, which was distributed to all Hungarian-language secondary schools by the Foundation’s staff at the time. The other most exciting event of the program was the simulation game entitled Structures of Society, where the young people could experience what the economic, social and political model was under communism and then under democracy.
In 2012-13, for the first time, the Integratio Foundation launched a talent programme for young people interested in social sciences, entitled Life before the regime change, which resulted in six exciting essays.
From the 2017-18 school year onwards we implement complex programs through lectures, small group sessions and mentoring. These are complemented by field trips and interactive programmes (e.g. a live library). The work produced is presented at conferences or exhibitions. The topics tackled were the following: Generation Z creative media workshop, Life before the regime change, Timisoara ’89 through the eyes of students, My Timisoara – Generation Z creative media workshop.
Mentors and experts involved in the project: Balla Lóránt, Bartha Csaba, Băruță Krisztina, Darida Koppány, Dukász Magor, Erdei Ildikó, Fodor Enikő, Gecse-Madaras Júlia, Katona Mihály, Keresztes Péter, Molnár Timea-Imola, Nüszl Erzsébet, Orosz Sándor, Sütő Egeressy Zsuzsa, Tamássy Zsolt, Toró Tamás, Toró Tibor, Valdman Kinga.