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Symposium of UNESCO project schools in Kassel
From September 17 to 20, around 200 participants will discuss future-oriented democracy education in Germany's schools at the nationwide conference of UNESCO project schools in Kassel. The expert audience will exchange views on dealing with hate speech and exclusion, on anchoring elements of democracy education in everyday school life and on the democratic potential of art.
The conference will be opened in Kassel City Hall by Hesse's Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs, the current President of the Conference of Education Ministers, Prof. Dr. R. Alexander Lorz, and the President of the German UNESCO Commission, Prof. Dr. Maria Böhmer, together with Ilona Friedrich, Mayor of the City of Kassel, and Prof. Dr. Reiner Finkeldey, President of the University of Kassel. Afterwards, the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records, Roland Jahn, and Marina Weisband from politik-digital will discuss the challenges facing democracy and education with pupils.
The symposium is sponsored by the Federal Foreign Office and the Hessian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs. The Center for Teacher Training and the Department of Didactics of Political Education at the University of Kassel, the Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel and many other museums and places of learning from Kassel and the surrounding area are supporting the event. The symposium is open to the media.
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