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16Welcome 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.
We are a major provider of training programmes (organization of internships abroad) under the EU Program Leonardo da Vinci; of networking and training for teachers; of tailor-made educational stays worldwide for people of all ages; of non-formal education under the European Voluntary Service Programme (EVS) and of development and research projects to improve the quality of 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 give people the opportunity to know new realities over borders and to learn from these personal experiences.
Current projects
9th May 2012
GEB Vienna – Mobility projects approved
After founding GEB Vienna in December last year, the first projects start now: Teachers, trainers and apprentices can apply for scholarships from 1st of June on.
29th April 2012
VETPROM - Seminar in London completed
The 3rd of 8 seminars for teachers and professionals in vocational education and training (VET) was held in London. German education bodies could establish cooperations with the London Kingston Universtity and with the British-German chamber of Indurstrie and commerce.
21st April 2012
EuPQua - Meeting of the European Network in Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland
From 18 to 21st April 18 Experts of Vocational Training from Poland, Spain, Northern Ireland and Germany met in Wroclaw and discussed the implementation of a learning module that should give the opportunity to students, to get new competences of the field of intercultural learning in business.
4th April 2012
T-Tactic – Training Course for italian teachers in Berlin
15 Teachers and Experts of vocational education from Rome, Florence, Reggio Calabria and Catania were our guests in Berlin to learn about the German vocational education system. Together with them we visited NGO's, schools and institutions. Accordingly GEB offers educational trips for German experts - this year to London, Istanbul, Seville, Vienna and Leeuwarden (NL).
12th March 2012
VETPROM - Seminar for Experts in Luzern (Swizerland)
From 4th to 10th March sixteen teachers and experts in vocational education and training (VET) from Brandenburg visited schools and chambers of commerce in Swizerland to gain information and knowledge about the swiss system of vocational training. One of the goals was to start an intensive exchange of teachers and apprentices between the partner cities Potsdam and Luzern.
13th. January 2012
T-Tactic – Transfer of tools for managing European mobility projects
From 12th to 13th January 13 organisations from 7 European countries met for the „kick-off-meeting“ of T-Tactic in Firenze. The members of the organisations want to develope and contribute methods and tools for mobility projects. The closing conference with the presentation of the results of the project will take place from 12th to 13th September 2013 in Berlin.
5th December 2011
In.P.U.T. - international congress for event-management in Berlin
From 30 November until 3 December, 22 educational trainers met for three days in Berlin. The participants from 6 member states of the EU agreed on a plan for preparation, mentoring and certification of initial vocational training in the event-management field.
22nd October 2011
EupQua - Network meeting of the European Partnership Project, improving the quality of European internships in vocational training
For four days (19-22 October) vocational trainers from Spain, UK, Poland, Austria, Portugal and Germany met in Seville. New approaches regarding the development of future European vocational training were discussed. A new model based on a system that allowed for the transfer of credits between countires was central to the discussion.
The project lasts for two years and will finish in Wroclaw (Poland) in April 2012.
16th October 2011
Ways to Democracy - International Youth Exchange in Havanna (Cuba)
Thirty students from Germany and Cuba met from September 20 to October 2 in Havanna. The students met in different workshops and discussed ways of developing a more equal and social society. They learned much especially through personal meetings with former Cuban workers who had spent time in the former GDR. They also travelled to the "Schweinebucht" (the Bay of Pigs invasion); where in 1961 an invasion of exiled Cubanians trained by the American CIA was unsuccessfully launched.
21st August 2011
EfA-SOZ – Preparatory seminar in Berlin
Sixteen students from colleges for social education (nursery / kindergarten teachers) coming from all over Germany participated in a two-day seminar to prepared their internship, which starts next month. They were all awarded a Leonardo da Vinci scholarship to carry out the internship in another European country instead in Germany. Find out more here.
1st August 2011
Funding granted to pilot project “Age Management in Practice”!
Our present research & development project was granted funding even despite a tough competition and funding quota of only 17% by the executive agency of the European Commission in Brussels.
The project’s main objective is to offer both employers and employees innovative training and education concepts, which prepare them for the modifications caused by the demographic changes in Europe.
25th July 2011
EuroGraduate II - Selection of participants in Belfast finished!
Last weekend the selection of beneficiaries for the program EuroGraduate II finished. Graduates of Northern-Irish Universities have the chance to get a job-experience in a company in Berlin from 15th August until 16th December 2011. They start with a two-week intensive language training followed by an internship in a German enterprise.
1st July 2011
New project "EuroSocial": for persons who finished their vocational training or have a corresponding professional experience in the areas of health and social care.
In cooperation with Berlin Universities we award scholarships to persons who want to broaden their professional knowledge and competences by going abroad.
14th June 2011
Interview on interview-blog.de with Iwona von Polentz director of GEB
The topic of the interview given by Iwona von Polentz published at interview-blog.de is scholarships for pupils in vocational training.
Find out more here.
29th May 2011
EfA-SOZ preparatory seminar with 50 participants completed successfully!
In the last two weekend’s pupils from German-wide vocational colleges for social pedagogy participated in the intensive preparation for their internships across Europe.
They all use the opportunity to go abroad for their compulsory internship instead of doing it here in Germany. They are going for instance to Istanbul, Seville, Wien and London.
06. Mai 2011
Circle of European Integration – Final conference from 11th to 14th May in Hotel de France (Berlin)
The project run under the EU programme for active citizenship is close to its end.
Last April 24 European volunteers active in Spain, Poland, Slovenia and Germany got the opportunity to serve 4 weeks long in one of the other mentioned countries.
This exchange offered the volunteers a unique life time experience, which they will report on during the final conference.
The project’s most relevant results, based on the experiences of the volunteers, and a list of recommendations will be compiled in a declaration, which will be given to all relevant national and European authorities.
3rd of march 2011
Voluntary Service 50 + - still two free scholarships for Maribor!
People of 50 years and older are given the possibility to volunteer in a social institution in Maribor (Slovenia) during a period of three to six weeks. This experience shall be a contribution to their own life. The stay abroad is funded through a EU-scholarship.
01st February 2011
Circles of European Integration – Call for participants starting now!
Together with our partner organization ZNI from Maribor (Slovenia) and supported by the European Commission Innovationsproject, GEB coordinates the implementation of a mobility within the program Citizenship.
The project is about civic commitment in order to provide citizens the opportunity to visit Europe's other initiatives and projects and share their experiences with people from other countries.
11. January 2011
NLL – Never Late to Learn! – Network meeting in Dublin
Together with partners from 13 European countries, the GEB is working to develop a network of (educational) opportunities for elderly people in Europe. At the conference in Dublin (Ireland), which will be held from 10th till 13th January, successful projects in Europe will be gathered and published on the website of the project.
03. January 2011
Lecture on the Life Long Learning Program (LLP) from the EU Commission in the Rotary Club Berlin in the castle of Köpenick
The GEB will present EU- Long Learning Program for Education in the Rotary-Club in the castle of Köpenick. The aim is to give participants an overview of objectives and programs of the EU Commission in relation to the program Europe 2020.
The Rotary Club is an organization of members from all professions that have united worldwide to provide humanitarian services and to promote peace and international understanding.
20th December 2010
INPUT – Kick-off meeting in Rome of the project in "Event Management” ended.
The project began with an inaugural conference from 8th till 11th December 2010 in Rome. All partners reported first how the training as an Event Manager was organized in their countries. In addition, work plans for the next two years and financial framework were developed and established.
The aim of the project is to compare the good points of vocational training in "Event Management" in Europe and to adapt it to conditions of other countries. Trainees in this field will have the opportunity to spend part of their training somewhere else in Europe in June 2011.
3rd December 2010
EuPQua ECVET – Kick-off meeting in Berlin completed successfully
In the frame of this hard-to-pronounce title, eight German and European educational institutions in the field of vocational training joined their efforts in a working group. The aim was to compare professional training in specific occupational areas and to clearly define some units (modules) of the instruction so that it will be possible in the future for trainees to do a part of their vocational training abroad.
Until the end of the project, in 2012, the partners will organize conferences in all participating countries and involve their own local partner organizations in the development and definition of the modules.
26. November 2010
Zug nach Europa II – Erweiterung der Berufsfelder und Destinationen!
Ab sofort können sich Auszubildende, die sich in einer Berufsausbildung in einem Betrieb des öffentlichen Personenverkehrs befinden, für ein Stipendium bewerben. Sie können im Ausland in einem gleichartigen Betrieb ein Praktikum ableisten. Auszubildende der Mechatronik / Elektronik können weiterhin an dem Projekt teilnehmen (unabhängig davon, ob ihr Ausbildungsbetrieb im Bereich des öffentlichen Nahverkehrs angesiedelt ist oder nicht).
Gleichzeitig ist es ab sofort auch möglich, das Projekt in Wien oder London durchzuführen!
8. November 2010
Circle of European Integration Pilot project of the EU Program "Europe for Citizens"
Together with our partner organization ZNI from Maribor (Slovenia) and supported by the European Commission Innovationsproject, GEB coordinates the implementation of a mobility within the program Citizenship.
The project is about civic commitment in order to provide citizens the opportunity to visit Europe's other initiatives and projects and share their experiences with people from other countries.
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