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The Goethe Institute is targeting the project Dialogue, Education and Future in collaboration with other organizations to provide young people from Europe with the possibility of an exchange platform, in order to discuss the national and European education systems from the "student perspective".
Young people will work in groups
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The official Goethe-Institut information says:
A European project on educational policy at a national and international level iniatiated by young people in Sweden
What do the stakeholders – the students – expect from a school education? Does every pupil within the European Union have good educational opportunities? Do schools always meet their educational objectives? What are the differences between state and private schools? What are the benefits of exams? Young Europeans will grapple with these and similar questions as part of the project Dialogue: Education and the Future on the 12th and 13th of June 2013 in Munich, Germany.
“I’m taking part because I’d like to improve our school system and put forward my own ideas. I’m looking forward to getting to know the other partcipants,” says Hanna Sommer from the Korbinian-Aigner-Gymnasium in Erding.
The project gives young people from the UK, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden a platform for exchange. Together they will critique the national and international school system from their own perspectives, stimulate improvements and prepare a petition for the Education Ministers in the participating countries to tell them how they believe education in schools could be improved.
The topic of education is a matter for national policy, but the opinions of pupils often remain overlooked. Here they will have the opportunity to voice the strengths and weaknesses, if not the deficiencies, of the national education system, which will be immensely important for the discussion of the future role of education.
The idea for the project came from a group of young people from Sweden who wanted to actively represent their educational interests. The Goethe-Institut Sweden took up the idea and expanded on it with young people from the UK. More schools and universities in Germany, Finland and the Netherlands then joined the project.
The project Dialogue: Education and the Future promotes multilingualism as well as the development of European citizenship. The young people involved with the project will learn to take responsibility for civil society. Through this project they will also be given a platform for civic engagement by critically and independently exploring the advantages and disadvantages of their national education systems, and jointly developing proposals for change in their free time outside of school and university curricula.
From the 12th – 14th June the young people will meet for a workshop in Munich to work on the joint petition. The petition will then be sent to Education Ministers, including the British Education Minister Michael Gove. The group from the UK will be made up of pupils from Tomlinscote School and students from Newcastle University.
On the afternoon of the 13th of June the organisers and participants will be talking about the project and will also be available to give interviews from 2.30pm until 4pm at the Verkehrszentrum, Am Bavariapark 5.
The project was financed with the support of the European Union through the programme JUGEND IN AKTION (YOUTH IN ACTION). The content of this project does not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union or the National Agency of YOUTH for Europe and can accept no liability.
published on: 21st June 2013