Category: SITID
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What about stereotypes?
On the 12th March 2020, we had an Open Café about stereotypes. We wanted to introduce the topic in an informal way, so we decided to ask people to draw on a paper what were stereotypes according to them and then to explain their drawing to the group. It was interesting because we all came…
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On your marks, get set… Draw!
New week, new open café! On the 5th March 2020, we organized a Pictionary at the Rönnen accommodation. We divided people in two teams and every round, one person from each team had to pick a word in a bowl (from simple to difficult) and draw the same word at the same time. The rest…
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“Time to show your actor’s skills to the world” day
On the 27th February 2020, some residents from Rönnen International Accommodation joined our werewolf day. Most of them already knew how to play to this social deduction game. Indeed, throughout the game you need to use strategy and act according to your role, which can be either werewolf, witch, hunter, cupid, seer or simple farmer.…
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Let’s talk about music!
Let’s talk about music! The first open café that was launched at the Rönnen residence in Malmö on the 20th February 2020 was about music. We started introducing ourselves by telling our name, the country we come from and our favorite music, which gave us the opportunity to discover new artists and songs that we…
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OPEN CAFE – DIFFERENT LANGUAGE
Just recently we had a Kultural cafe that focused on different language quirks between France, and Persian, the alphabet and a long discussion about religion and how that is affecting countries. It was learned and shared that in french they have a strange way of labelling and writing some numbers, and in Persian how the…
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Open Cafe- Cultural Shocks
Mobilizing Experts held another kultural cafe in Sweden, but this time the focus was Cultural shocks, and arriving in Sweden, People were slow to come to the session that was held, as it was just a full school day, but there was hot drinks and snacks provided as Fika for those interested, Throughout the entire…
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OPEN CAFE – PERSONAL FINANCE
Personal Finance: The personal finance topic was an in depth topic that included a lesson plan, all of the countries involved in the project used the same guidelines for the cafe to what is assumed as a big success. The session with the topic of Personal Finance had a fully thought out lesson plan, there…
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Open Cafe- Music
Everybody that came was very excited about the prospect of sharing their favourite kind of music with everybody, something that became very apparent to the team that was facilitating this session, was that Music is a formidable method for bringing people out of their shells, and comfort zones, people were even excited to share if…
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OPEN CAFE: Swedishness
Recently Mobilising Expertise hosted a cultural cafe about the topic of ‘Swedishness’ the cafe was a success with people coming and sharing their stories of how they felt about Sweden when they first arrived, and how some people thought that it would be more stereotypical than it actually was. The discussion was interspersed with drink…
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SITID: OPEN CAFE – life experiences
An open cafe where individuals discussed about their own personal life experiences On 9th July, we opened up and got personal in the SITID: Social Integration Through Informal Dialogue project. We created an open space for individuals to discuss together their life experiences and personal stories to express how that has shaped them as an…