Norwea and EEA Grants – PROJECT MOBILITY

Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch Studies

Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University


Project title:

„Active citizenship in the history and the present. The role of personality and individuality in
written and oral texts.“


Project partners:

- University of Oslo, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies

- Oslo Jewish  Museum

- University of Southeast Norway


The main topics of the project:

Norway in the WWII, Holocaust victims and survivors in Norway, Czech and Slovak refugees to Norway
1939, Nansen help 1939, Norwegian personalities after 1945 (writers, journalists, composers),
seeking after „Norwegian values“, with or contra main stream, religiosity in Norway, plurality in
the society. Reading and interpreting official or personal texts (archive, correspondence). Culture
institutions role today (the role of NORLA or others).


In the focus shall not be RESEARCH, but MEDIATION and REPORTING the information. EDUCATION,
instruction, TEACHING. How to use our knowledge about Norway for Czech and Slovak situation?


The outcomes of the project:


Documentation Web

Foto and book exhibition in Brno and Prague

Bachelor diploma writing

Master diploma writing

Seminar paper

Language acquisition in the context of modern technologies

Development of the study program Norwegian language, literature and culture

Norwegian lecturer in Brno in two months



The time frame of the project:

Autumn 2019:

Preparation phase for the participants at MU

Semester possibility for two master students

January 2020 – one months study stay at the University of Oslo (6 students)

March 2020 – April 2020 : The Norwegian lecturer

May 2020: Project exhibition