The Hania training continued through a series of local synergy events held in June 2026. These activities brought the TCZ methodology beyond the original training group and placed it in the hands of local organisations, facilitators and newly certified trainers. Each event grew from relationships formed during the programme and responded to questions already present within the cultural and educational life of Crete.
The TCZ Curriculum provided the basis for all three events, with different modules adapted to each setting. Embroidering the City drew on Module 5 to explore contested urban memory through artistic practice; Multivocality, Visibility and Participatory Art brought together Modules 1, 3 and 5 around disability visibility, participation and cultural democracy; and Cultural Diversity in the School Classroom worked primarily with Module 4, applying cultural mediation and intersectionality to educational practice. In each case, the curriculum offered a framework that could be reshaped around the people, questions and realities of the local context.
Local partners took an active role in shaping and facilitating the activities. Chania Urban Youth Observatory, Araneida Studio, Young Citizens of the World and Step Into Youth worked with Etz Hayyim to bring the methodology into public-facing events. Several graduates of the Hania training returned as facilitators, artists and collaborators, using the materials within their own fields of practice and gaining confidence in adapting them for new audiences.
The synergy events extended the life of the training through new professional connections and concrete possibilities for further cooperation. They also offered an early view of TCZ’s afterlife in Crete: a network of people and organisations able to carry the methodology forward through their own work.
Training for the Contact Zone is co-funded by the European Union within the framework of Erasmus+ Adult Education.
