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06Welcome to Gesellschaft für Europabildung (GEB)!
As it is written in our statute, GEB is “a community of friends and supporters of the European idea”.
These friends and supporters are government agencies, companies, educational institutions and individuals who work together on the European integration, international understanding and the peaceful exchange in Europe and worldwide.
Our mail activities are internships and scholarships abroad for training under the EU Program Leonardo da Vinci, networking and training for teachers, the organization of individual stays abroad for people of all ages, projects under the European Voluntary Service (EVS) and the Development projects to improve the education and training in Europe.
We are working with partner organizations in 21 countries of the European Union and other European and international partners. Since its founding in 1989, we have given people the opportunity to get to know personally over borders and to learn from these personal experiences.
Latest News
13th August 2010
ProViso and ProMove - New scholarship projects for apprentices and people on the labour market!
In cooperation with the vocational education center Arbeit und Leben 
we are now running two new projects for people in the following vocational fields:
Hotel and Catering
Management
Graphics and Design
Audiovisual Technics and Media
Destinations are: Italy, Poland, Turkey and Bulgaria
ProViso: 4 weeks language training and internship for Apprentices
ProMove: 24 weeks language training and internship for people on the labour market.
31st July 2010
Leonardo Da Vinci – Documentary of a participant’s stay abroad with our program Arte Factum III in London
This weekend a film crew of the “Münchener Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen” will accompany the journey of the first participants of our program in London. The film team will be documenting the experience and everyday occurrence of a participant in a wheelchair during her three months stay in London.
13th July 2010
Arte Factum III starts with the first preparatory seminar with 26 participants from Germany
Last weekend, the project started with the preparation of the first scholarship holders.
In August and September 2010 they will go abroad to different European countries having a language course and afterwards an internship.
The seminar took place in the premises of the Prince Donnersmarck Foundation "Blisse14". The participants obtained an overview of European education programs and have been specifically prepared for their time abroad.
The projects "Arte Factum III" is also directed to people with disabilities and parents who wants to stay with their children abroad.
07th July 2010
“I.N.P.U.T - Innovative Profile for Updated Training” – it’s an European network for improving the training and further education of cultural event managers. The European Commission approved and funds a series of conferences in seven European countries to reflect on this topic.
From October 2010 to June 2012 organizations will participate in the field of art and culture and the artists and the event managers themselves have the opportunity to attend conferences, taking place in parallel with significant cultural events in seven European countries. The goal is to provide event managers with the opportunity to gain insight into the practice of management of such cultural and major events to share their own experiences at the same time with other people who work in the same profession.
The conference will start in the fall of 2010 in Rome.
25th May 2010
New Scholarships Leonardo Mobility from Jun 2010 until May 2012
From June on we can again assign scholarships to people in the vocational training and in the further education. Our projects are funded by the European Union and were approved after a thoroughly evolution process:
EfA-SOZ – Europaweite fachpraktische Ausbildung staatlicher Fachschulen für Sozialpädagogik im Land Berlin (Europe wide apprenticeships for nursery teachers trainees, from Berlin federal State technical colleges for social pedagogy– 82 scholarships)
ARTE FACTUM - Work experience to enhance EU- wide mobility of creative and event economy profession (further education for artists and creative professionals) - 69 scholarships
MobTAG – Mobility opportunities for trainees from the vocational course Technischer Assistent / Technische Assistentin für Gebäudetechnik (technical assistant / technical assistant for building services) - 30 scholarships
Zug nach Europa II – Mobility opportunities for mechatronics trainees in order to gain professional, linguistic and intercultural competences across Europe – 20 scholarships
We offer scholarships over all Europe for other vocational areas/ professions in cooperation with our German partners.
We are delighted to announce that disable people can be granted a scholarship. Parents or legal guardians, who decide themselves for a learning stay in other European country and wish to take the child / children with, will receive special funding.
16th May 2010
Final conference of the European network " "EuPQua - European Partnership for Quality in Vocational Training" in Wroclaw, Poland
From 20th to 21st May takes place the final conference of the project, which began in autumn 2008 in Berlin. During these two years under GEB’s coordination nine partners from eight European countries shared best practices, experiences and developed new projects on the topic of mobility opportunities for trainees, employees and anyone looking for work. Such a network from organizations, which carry out mobility projects in the vocational education and training, is especially important having in mind the more and more interdependent European education and labour market.
At the final conference in Wroclaw are expected participants from ten European countries and many representatives of companies and associations from Wroclaw and surroundings.
To find out more go to the projects website: www.eupqua.net
29th April 2010
Summer party/ Entrepreneurs meeting in June with Dr. Peter Beckers at GEB
We invite entrepreneurs from the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg on the 22nd of June to a summer party in the courtyard of "Friedrichshain Intercultural House". Also with us will be Dr. Peter Beckers from the District Council for Economic Affairs. In addition to the presentations of GEB's activities and of European Education programs at the centre of the evening will be the intercultural summer party. Music from Africa and Chile will give the tone and a buffet with typical food from over 14 countries opens the appetite even to the more sceptical ones!
01 th March 2010
Metropolis Records - Multilateral Youth Exchange in Berlin
In June 2010 GEB organizes a youth exchange with participants from Italy, Poland, Germany and Turkey.
This project is about using New Media Art to connect young people and to promote intercultural dialogue through creativity.
We will accomplish two workshops: Sound-Recording and Image-Recording. The content of the video and audio sequences is shall show the Metropolis with all its facets of a multicultural society.
GEB takes part in the research-project "Network for Promotion of Learning in Later Life"
In the next 3 years GEB and the project partners from 13 other european countries will collect and share experiences out of good-practice-projects about Learning in Later Life. The research-project aims to identify needs for Learning in Later Life and to promote the outcomes of the project on national and international level to stakeholders in adult education.