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Symposium of the 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 how to deal with hate speech and exclusion, how to anchor democratic education elements in everyday school life, and on the democratic potential of art.
The conference will be opened in Kassel's City Hall by Hesse's Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs, the current President of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany, 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 Kassel University. Afterwards, Roland Jahn, the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Files, and Marina Weisband of politik-digital will discuss the challenges for democracy and education with students.
The symposium is sponsored by the German Foreign Office and the Hessian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs. The Center for Teacher Education and the Department of Didactics of Political Education at the University of Kassel, the Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel and many other museums and learning sites from Kassel and the surrounding area are supporting the event. The symposium is open to the media.
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