Working Priorities
- Creating and publishing abstracts and reports of relevant research in the field of arts and cultural education in Germany
- Taking part in network meetings and related working groups
- Contributing to specific network action fields related to monitoring and research
- Rising awareness for the annual international week of arts education by specific action taken
Partner Institutions
The Akademie der Kulturellen Bildung (Academy of Arts Education), established in 1958, is the central institute of arts education for children and young people in the Federal Republic of Germany and the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. In its capacity as a continuous training academy for experts of youth, social, education and cultural work it is a recognised institution for children and young people’s development and qualifies in the entire spectrum of arts education subjects.
The Academy has a qualified expertise in theorising, policy counselling and concept development at its disposal. Research and evaluation are part of its services as much as analysis of educational and social cross-cutting issues. It exerts influence on the development of new job descriptions and fields of work in arts education and is an active contributor to the extracurricular arts education landscape.
The Academy of Arts Education is a member of a comprehensive network of institutions and persons in the field of arts education. It is a supporter of the Deutsche Kinder- und Jugendfilmzentrum (kjf) and the information centre “Kulturelle Bildung in Schule und Jugendarbeit NRW“ (Arts education in schools and youth work North Rhine Westphalia) and a centre of important arts education associations and organisations as well as the founder of numerous multiplier networks.
Contact:
Küppelstein 34, 42857 Remscheid, Germany
Telephone: 0049 (0)2191 794-223
E-mail: ernst (at) wagner-mchn.de
Website: http://en.kulturellebildung.de/the-academy/mission-statement/
The Genshagen Foundation evolved from the Berlin-Brandenburg Institute for Franco-German Collaboration in Europe, which was founded in 1993 by historian Prof Rudolf von Thadden and Brigitte Sauzay. Since 2005, the Foundation has been run as a non-profit foundation under German civil law. It focuses on promoting and intensifying Franco-German and German-Polish relations, as well as facilitating the dialogue within the Weimar Triangle. Its founders and main sponsors are the German Federal Government, represented by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and Land Brandenburg. The most important third-party donor is the Federal Foreign Office.
LEGAL FORM
Non-profit foundation under German civil law
OBJECTIVES
- The Genshagen Foundation aims to strengthen Europe’s cultural diversity, political capacity to act, social coherence and economic dynamism.
- Through its varied events and publications, the Foundation helps to find new approaches and solutions to current and future challenges in society and politics – always within the context of Europe.
MAIN ACTIVITIES
- At the interface between civil society, the state and the business world, the foundation operates in two working sections: Art and Cultural Mediation in Europe and European Dialogue – Political Thinking on Europe.
- Organisation of conferences and seminars on different European issues
- Public panel discussions, artistic projects and cross-border exchanges between experts, activists and artists
- Research programs
- residencies for authors and translators
- Summer universities for graduate students from France, Germany and Poland
- pilot projects in the field of cultural education
STRENGTHS
The Genshagen Foundation is known as an institution where political, economic, cultural and social issues linked to the European integration and agenda are discussed in a constructive and controversial high-level debate.
Contact:
Am Schloss 1, Genshagen, Germany
E-mail: keuchel(at)stiftung-genshagen.de
Website: http://www.stiftung-genshagen.de
Central Contact Person for ENO Germany
