Our main activities are trainings and workshops focusing on preventing the discrimination (right now mostly based on gender, sexual orienation and race and ethic origin); researches focusing on factors which facilitate social capital in Poland and publications promoting idea of social capital (trust, bonds, opennenes, dialogue).

Ethnoleague: Multicultural and sex-mixed football league and club for better integration of migrants and women to Polish society. We use football universal rules to teach fair play and anti-discrimination attitudes. We are an active member of the international Football Against Racism in Europe network, the official UEFA partner. We organize international seminars for experts, youth exchanges and workshops for teachers on the anti-discrimination methodologies in sport, and produce manuals.
Young refugees: Program for the young refugees in Warsaw. It is a support tool in the refugee center that aims to prepare them for school, social peer contacts and independent functioning in the future. We teach Polish language, help in homework, and develop different skills. We also run sport activities, excursions, and work individually with whole families.
Volunteering: We realize several projects of international volunteering and youth exchanges co-financed by Erasmus+. We work with dozens of organizations from across Europe, as well as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, China and Mexico among others. Together with several other organizations we run webside with open educationoal courses for volunteers.
T-shirt for Freedom: The aim of the campaign, which started in 2004, was to stimulate discussion on tolerance and minority rights in Poland. It is a solidarity gesture with groups discriminated because of their appearance, origin, sex, disease and other traits. T-shirts with slogans like I’m a lesbian, I’m unemployed, I was in prison, I am an Arab, I do not listen to the Pope revealed nationwide discussion. The campaign has been supported by Oliviero Toscani and dozens of important Polish politicians, artists and athletes. T-shirts were sold out to thousands of people, we also held many debates and exhibitions.

International level:
Trainings
Seminars
Exchanges
European Voluntary Service Projects
Local level:
Local volunteers
Human Rights promotion and campaigns
Trainings for Human Resources

Future activities among others: workshops, festivals, international exchanges of volunteers, conferences, animations and all kinds of artistic and cultural expressions.

1. Presentation of valuable phenomena and different forms of art – 6 art galleries
2. Organization of festivals, reviews, exhibitions, autorship’s/autors’ and poetical evenings, concerts, spectacles, auctions, etc. ( the biggest and the most important every-year-projects “International Summer Garden of Theater”, cycle of concerts “Jazz and Surroundings”).
3. Promotion of creators, patrons and of culture (include young culture’s creators).
4. Publishing (catalogues of exhibitions, post-conference stuff).
5. Educational and workshop’s actions (“The artistic workshops for children”).
6. Informative, educational and popularization’s activity (“Codes of Culture” “Collection of Culture”).

Documentation
- collecting archival materials connected with the multicultural history of Lublin and region
- recording the testimonies, digital documentation
- commemoration of Jewish-Polish history of Lublin
Oral history
- we have collected over 700 testimonies
Artistic programmes
- theatrical performances
- documentary exhibitions (e.g. ”The Primer – children in Majdanek camp”)
- actions in public space (e.g the City of Poetry Festival )
- Memory Mysteries
Educational and Internet programmes
- cooperation with schools in organizing the anniversaries of „Holocaust Memorial Day”, the liquidation of the Lublin's ghetto, etc.
- preparing the screenplays of alternative lessons about history, culture and heritage of Lublin and region
- conferences, seminars, workshops, audiovisual presentations
- websites and databases of Lublin and region cultural heritage (e.g. przewodnik.tnn.pl, pamiecmiejsca.tnn.pl, singer.teatrnn.pl, zydzi-zycie.net)
Publishing
- the educational and artistic books
The House of Print
Old Town Cellars

The Institute of Research on Civilizations organizes Culture Days within two cycles: Encounters with the Orient and Cultures Close and Distant. Furthermore, we organize seminars, conferences, meetings with authors, photography exhibitions and multicultural workshops for students.

• the concept of European civilisation • national stereotypes and issues of neighbourhood in an international context • national identity in the context of globalisation • cultural dialogue • collective memory • the multicultural nature of Central Europe Poland's place in Europe • cultural heritage and a new philosophy for its protection • the concept of the historic city • culture and development • the place of culture in society The above mentioned themes and many more are the basis of the following activities of the ICC: seminars, conferences, lectures, debates, summer schools, the post-graduate programme, research projects, exhibitions, publications, international projects.

The Foundation initiates and participates in programs that promote the values enshrined in its statute. This continuing work is divided among the active programs that, though different in scope, character, methods, place of implementing, recipient and durance, they are launched for the common good of the public. Among them, Lech Walesa Library; Goetz-Okocimski Academy in Brzesko; Lech Walesa Grant Found; Poland in the World; the Sustainable Development and Education of Young People.

As a cultural institution, we constantly organize, or participate in organizing cultural, artistic and educational projects. Among our recently developed work is The African Festival (www.e-afryka.ovh.org), A Native-American Culture Conference, The Romanian Culture Festival. We also organize educational meetings concerning the heritage of various ethnic groups on a monthly basis, and weekly meetings with travellers telling about the countries they have visited. We also author the Trans-Poetica project, inviting poets from around the world.