This year, the Art of Education project changed its format from an annual conference to study trips, to which we invited educators from all over the country. Several dozen people took part. We visited our partners in Szczecin, Gdańsk, Elbląg, Koszalin, Słupsk and Ustka. We also had a day of rest at workshops led by artist Elżbieta Jabłońska and educator Amina Olszewska in the legendary open-air studios of Łazy. The trips resulted in wonderful exchanges: in Szczecin, we learned about grassroots social, educational and exhibition initiatives. Our hosts in this city were Małgorzata Różańska and Sylwia Starkowska from the Baltic Contemporary Art Gallery, and a few months later we took part in Dobro-stan, organised by them (together with Agnieszka Kilian). In Elbląg, we had the opportunity to attend the opening of an exhibition crowning the #OtwartaGaleria educational project at the EL Gallery Art Centre. As part of an exchange with the Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk, we felt the ferment of Gdańsk's artistic community, and the local Educational and Social Programmes Team paid us a return visit.

Thanks to this exchange of practices, experiences and reflections, we learned about diverse projects based on openness and community, in many cases going beyond the framework of traditionally understood education.