About the grant project
“Heda” is a long-running photographic and research project about the migration experience of young Chechen women living between cultures. The KPO grant funded a distinct, publicly financed effort — building a multilingual website to present the entire cycle and delivering a series of twelve training sessions that raised the digital skills needed to produce it. The artistic work itself is described in the “O projekcie” (“About the project”) section; this page describes the publicly funded part of the work, thanks to which the website could come into being.
The site you are reading is at once an extension of the existing exhibitions and an independent educational tool — it contains the full photographic cycle (including images not previously shown in public), the full interviews with the protagonists, curatorial and essayistic texts, and two video works including a short documentary made in collaboration with editor Julia Polkowska. All content is available in three languages — Polish, English and Russian — and the site itself is designed in line with WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards and eco-design principles that limit resource use.
An integral part of the grant project was a completed cycle of twelve training sessions in three areas: UX/UI design, film editing and web programming. The training extended the artist’s artistic, digital and technological skills, enabling her to independently create and maintain digital art publications in the future and building the resilience of her practice in the face of crisis.
The website will remain live and openly accessible for at least 24 months after the project’s end, serving as a durable tool that supports future exhibitions of the project and as an independent educational and artistic publication. It opens the work to new audiences — cultural institutions, organisations supporting migrants, schools, universities, and research and activist communities in Poland and abroad. As the project evolves, its content will be progressively updated and expanded.
Project facts
- Project title
- Website for the photographic project “Heda” and a series of training sessions
- Beneficiary
- Aleksandra Skowrońska
- Funding source
- National Recovery and Resilience Plan (KPO), NextGenerationEU — European Union funds
- Investment / component
- Investment A2.5.1 “Programme supporting the activities of cultural sector entities and creative industries to stimulate their development”
- Project value
- Total value: PLN 36,000.00 — of which EU co-financing: PLN 36,000.00 (100 %).
- Implementation period
- 01 Sep 2025 – 28 Feb 2026 (actual start November 2025 following a successful appeal).
- Objective
- To create a multilingual, accessible website presenting the photographic project “Heda” and to deliver a series of training sessions building digital skills in video editing, UX/UI design, web development, editorial work, translation, graphic design and programming.
- Target audience
- Cultural institutions, organisations working with migrants and refugees, schools and art universities, independent curators, researchers, and the wider audience interested in documentary photography and questions of identity.
Social media communication
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