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Please describe in a few keywords the areas(s) in
which the organization would like to work
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ARBEIT UND LEBEN (DGB/VHS) e.V. is a institution for youth and adult education, supported by the German Federation of Trade
Unions (DGB) and the German Associations of Adult Education (DVV). It was the
common will of both partners to improve the standing of further education for
workers and employees in society and at the workplace and to support the
democratic reconstruction after 1945. With its regional organisations in each
of the federal states and approximately 150 local and regional institutions
organised together under the umbrella of the national committee, ARBEIT UND LEBEN
(WORK AND LIFE) is present nationwide and reaches approximately 300 000 youth
and adults per year.
Beneath activities on local, regional and national level we realise
about 120 international youth-exchange and internship-programms with a wide
number of partners in Europe and beyond.
We want to contribute to organising WORK and LIFE according to the premises of
social justice, equal opportunity, and solidarity with the aim of creating a
democratic culture of participation. Through our educational offers, we want to
create opportunities to impart knowledge to people, to promote critical
thinking in forming opinions and in decision-making, and to foster social
participation. Didactically and methodologically our work focuses on people’s
interests as well as on their everyday life and living conditions. Our
educational offers are directed toward the following groups:
- employees
- trainees
- unemployed persons
- migrants
- senior citizens
- youth and young adults
- works councils and workplace representatives
We organise and accompany learning processes through workshops, seminars,
international meetings, local initiatives and projects that focus on the
following topics:
- work and education
- economy and social development
- migration and integration
- communication and the media
- civil society and politics
- co-determination and participation
- European development
processes
globalisation and
sustainability |
