To kick off the new school year, we are offering a series of exciting projects for which we are still looking for school classes.
What's most important in every workshop? Exactly: The breaks. That's why we'll be taking a summer break during August to regenrate and gain new experiences. We'll be back and ready in September!
From July 22 to 25, 2024, we went on a seminar trip to Stuttgart with a group of young people who were catching up on their secondary school leaving certificate or were in transition from school to work.
In cooperation with the Verein zur beruflichen Förderung von Frauen e.V., we held a workshop on politics and participation for young mothers.
At the end of June, under the guidance of Fanny Nitsche, we were able to try out methods of the “Theater of the Oppressed” and thus engage in a playful and moving exchange on gender issues.
During a four-day seminar, pupils from the Helmut-Schmidt-Schule in Usingen dealt with relevant events in German history.
Coming from Flörsheim am Main, Eppstein, Frankfurt am Main and various cities in the Hochtaunus district, the participants of the seminar "Brave, Strong, Empowered! " came to Neu-Anspach. Some traveled alone, others in pairs or groups of three. However, they were all united by the common motivation to learn and have fun together with other girls* during the fall break.
What makes a good class representative and what are the rights and responsibilities?
As part of the model project "Learning from and with each other", a workshop entitled "Saving the climate together?" took place last Monday in the garden of the Mafalda Girls* Cultural Center. The theme of the workshop was the climate crisis and climate justice, and was aimed at sensitizing participants to these important issues and developing concrete approaches for action.
We were in Berlin with young people on a seminar trip on the subject of anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim racism.
With the title "United against Racism", a project week took place at Gutenbergschule Wiesbaden from 10 to 14 July 2023.
On July 5, 2023, the federal government presented its draft for the 2024 federal budget. This includes: dramatic cuts in the children and youth plan and in political education. The AdB chairman Boris Brokmeier is appalled: "If the cuts are implemented in this way, we are threatened with a loss of substance for the important work of democracy building."
What does politics have to do with me and how does politics influence my life? In the seminar “Politics – what does that have to do with me?! An educational seminar for young women*" we discussed on July 6th 2023 with participants of VbFF in Frankfurt/Main.
Under the motto "Good climate for everyone*" we worked together with young people from the Toni-Sender-School from Frankfurt/Main at the beginning of June.
During four days, students of the Helmut-Schmidt-Schule in Usingen addressed a central period of German history at a place steeped in history.
In January 2023, the JVF started their term of office with a seminar weekend from 27-29.01.2023 in cooperation with the political education of basa e.V.
In this training for civic educators, we wanted to ask some fundamental questions anew: What do we understand by civic education? What is our role as civic educators? Which are our boundaries? What is our attitude?
For the second time the Girls*-Empowerment-Camp took place this year from 22th to 26th of October in Neu-Anspach. Thirty-three girls* aged between 12 and 18 years took part during their autumn holidays. Everyday there were many different workshops for the participants to choose from, for example on manga, social media, hip hop, theatre, self-assertion and much more. The crowning conclusion was the self-organised party on Tuesday evening.
On October 18th and 19th we were able to work in 2 teams with 8 classes at the Max Beckmann School on topics such as our social media use, digital identity and hate speech.
The cooperation project of IFZ and basa e.V. took place from October 10th to 13th at the Charles Hallgarten School in Frankfurt
From Ocotober 4th to 6th we were able to play our AR Game Canvas City with aspiring educators.
We will be on a short spring break from April 15 to 22 and look forward to being back on April 25.
The jury of the German Child and Youth Welfare Award 2022 has met and one of our team members was allowed to participate in the decision.
From November 5th to 14th 2021, the fellows of the project "Transatlantic Exchange of Civic Educators, TECE" from the Arbeitskreis deutscher Bildungsstätten e. V. and the Tisch College of Civic at Tufts University in Boston met in person for the first time in Germany. The exchange began in July with online sessions, and will conclude in January 2022 with a second meeting in the United States.
The Girls Empowerment Camp took place this year for the very first time, 33 girls between 12 and 18 years old took part during the autumn vacations 2021 in this new project. The girls could choose between different workshops every day. They could express themselves creatively by drawing anime, spraying graffiti, dancing, and playing theater. They could learn a lot in the hip-hop DJ Workshop, as well as in the self-defense and social media workshop, and they could also get involved in party planning for their group and implement their own ideas.