News 2020

I am living in Bordeaux, France, for almost 4 weeks now. Up until the day before my departure I had just felt anticipation, but I was still relatively relaxed. I was only a bit worried about the current situation - was it really a good idea to go abroad during a pandemic?

From October 11th to 23rd, 18 prospective educators carried out an exciting exploration of their professional field.

The Erasmus + program offers a wide range of funding opportunities to travel abroad, especially for trainees. This will also continue in the coming year.

Even in the times of Corona, the educational exchange at the European level does not have to come to a standstill. Frank Folger, teacher at the vocational school for social pedagogy of GALB Förder gGmbH recently carried out a job shadowing in Denmark.

Together with our partners from Central and Eastern Europe, we will be holding seminars in the coming years for people who work full-time or on a voluntary basis in youth work. In general, the seminars always examine the topics of inclusion and participation in society.

In spring the GEB submitted the first application for a consortium of institutions in the state of Berlin. The application has been approved and 100 scholarships are now available for further training at European level.

After 13 weeks, the participants successfully completed the project for young job seekers from Terrassa, Spain. Despite the situation in Berlin due to the Covid 19 crisis, we are very pleased that the participants were able to continue their internships partly in the facilities and partly in the home office.

Again, over 30 prospective educators and some of their teachers were awarded the Europass for their stays abroad in Europe. The Jane Addams School and the GEB started 10 years ago to enable staff and students to study abroad for further training.

"Expand language skills, get to know people from other countries and master new challenges." This is how Petra Wagner, Leonie Brehm and Paula Sophie Melcher described their experiences during an internship abroad in Vienna and Budapest. The professional and entertaining presentations of the trainees also delighted the former President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering.

The GEB has been organizing the international youth exchange under this name for 15 years. This year we held a training for the leaders of the national groups for the second time. As last year in Berlin, issues of youth policy and inclusion were discussed in Tbilisi (Georgia) this year.