NAUSIKA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

Nausika was established to design, promote and implement educational games for personal development and social transformation.

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The aims of education, as we see it, are:

  • raising creativity among the youth and maintaining it among the adults,
  • empowering personal skills by conscious work on emotions and attitudes,
  • preventing radicalization and prejudices by critical thinking,
  • promoting sustainable development, permaculture, urban gardening, 

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The various outputs of our work include: 

  • narrative games (RPG, LARP, storytelling, argumentation, simulation)
  • board and card games, including big scale mega-games
  • customized training programs for teachers, youthworkers and teaching institutions

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Since 2022, we lead NAUSIKA HUB – a grass-root space for educators and activists in the heart of the Old Town in Kraków (Poland). You’re welcome to rent our atmospheric workshop room in a medieval building or to co-organize events with our team.

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By the year 2024, we have run over 30 GRANT PROJECTS, mostly on the European Level, mostly focused on NFE innovation.

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Majority of OUR GAMES are published as free of cost open-source, to be used by activists and teachers at their own, while it’s also possible to order from us the service of ORGANIZATION AND FACILITATION of the games, or a PROFESSIONAL TRAINING on how to implement them on your own.

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We value networking with informal groups, as well as formalized bodies, such as

  • the Civic Dialogue Committee on Youth Policy in Kraków
  • the Edible Kraków program of the Municipal Greenspace Authority and the network of community gardens in Kraków
  • the international community of Portal Larp Convention
  • the Larp Alchemy training community 
  • The Baltic Ecovillage Network (BEN)

OUR TEAM

Zbigniew Janczukowicz

Teacher of philosophy and ethics by education, NGO manager and accountant by profession, game designer and permaculture gardener by passion. Founder of Nausika Educational Foundation. Hobbies: chess variants, ethnic board games, larp-chess crossover. In rare moments of free time, he’s building a house in the mountains, where he dreams to retire, grow vegetables and entertain international guests.

Patrycja Paula Gas

Anthropologist, lecturer, trainer, tutor, mentor, project manager, educational program designer, youth worker, eduLarp designer. My expertise lies in diversity and culture competence training courses, which I constantly develop as a member of the trainer’s group SIETAR Polska. Author of a book "The Dayaks - free people of Borneo" (Jagiellonian University Press, 2017) which is based on two years research in Indonesia.

Piotr Więckowski

Graphic designer and animator. Improv lover. Event organizer. Always eager for discussion and guessing what's on people's mind. Member of the Foundation Council.

Rudolf Miczka

Tourist guide who loves learning of any kind. Game designer and charismatic facilitator. Member of the Foundation Council.

SUPPORT

We accept donations for statutory purposes.

Your financial support will be dedicated to sustain the Nausika Hub in the center of Kraków – our grass-root community space of creative educators and climate activists.

or use traditional bank transfer:

FUNDACJA EDULACYJNA NAUSIKA

PLN bank account: 

PL 13 1140 2004 0000 3502 7955 9995

EUR bank account:

PL59 1140 2004 0000 3712 1040 5795

–> add “donation for statutory purpose” in the transfer title

DOCUMENTS

Nausika is a non-profit, non-govermnental organization, registered as foundation in Poland.

According to the Polish Law, some of the official documents are to be published online, you can read them below, the list will be expanding with time.

 

last actualisation: 2019-12-24

last actualisation: 2023-02-15

last actualisation: 2023-02-15

last actualisation: 2023-09-12