Training and Education
International experience is becoming ever more important now that we are living in a world-wide economy. The programmes listed here are broadly intended for two different groups. On one hand they are to assist German professionals to get to know markets abroad, to acquire additional expertise and linguistic skills and thereby to extend their own professional perspectives. On the other these programmes have been devised for specialists and managers from developing countries, from Central and Eastern Europe and the former states of the Soviet Union. The aim is to provide participants with the skills needed to take the lead professionally and socially at home in their own countries and thus to contribute to the sustainable development of their nations.
Into the world
A new voluntary service in the field of development policy set up by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) provides young people the possibility to work voluntarily in the field of development assistance in developing countries. Dependent on the length of their attendance volunteers will get a financial compensation for a 6 to 24 months period.
For further information see:
http://www.weltwaerts.de/ (website in German)
Service for volunteers "Culturewide"
Close cooperation with cultural intermediary organisations
The new international volunteers' service "Culturewide" under the aegis of the German Federal Foreign Office offers young people from 18 to 26 the possibility, to commit themselves to the field of the German foreign cultural and educational policy. "Culturewide" is supported by the German Federal Office in cooperation with the German UNESCO-Commission. Amongst its cultural partner organisations are the Goethe-Institute (GI), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Pedagogic Exchange Service (PAD), the Federal Administrative Office - Central Department on School Systems abroad as well as the German Archeological Institute (DAI).
For application see: http://www.kulturweit.de/
Meeting the increasing request for commitment facilities in the field of development assistance abroad the working committee "Learning and Helping Overseas" ("Lernen und Helfen in Übersee") provides comprehensive information. The wide variety of information is supposed to encourage interested persons on dealing with questions of development assistance and cooperation abroad. Thus the information provided should facilitate the systematic search for individually apt commitment facilities in the field of development assistance abroad.
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The vocation preparatory programme for students encourages the development of professional leading skills in favour of sustainability. Within the line of the UN-programme "education in favour of sustainable development" the programme was awarded with a price.
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