Education and Heimatwerk Niederösterreich

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BhW Niederösterreich
(BhW NÖ)
purpose Adult education , cultural work
Chair: Bettina Rausch
Establishment date: 1946 (Lower Austria Heimatwerk)
Seat : St. Pölten Linzer Strasse 7
Website: www.bhw-n.eu

The BhW Niederösterreich ( BhW NÖ ) is a Lower Austrian institution for general adult education .

History of the club

The BhW NÖ was founded in 1946 as a Lower Austrian Heimatwerk . The focus was initially on the practical and scientifically motivated cultivation of traditions and customs as well as the promotion of artistic activities. In the country devastated and divided by the Second World War , a “new national consciousness” was to develop, which also implied a critical and innovation-conscious handling of tradition. The Lower Austrian Heimatwerk thus also fulfilled an Austrian-wide educational policy mandate - the Heimatwerk brand is legally protected in Austria and can only be run by organizations that meet the objectives of the Heimatwerk idea.

As early as the 1950s, activities were expanded to include all areas of general adult education and community-oriented projects, which is reflected not least in the name changes to Lower Austria Education and Heimatwerk in 1953 and Education and Heimatwerk Lower Austria in 1997.

The establishment of local educational institutions and the establishment of district offices in all provincial quarters of Lower Austria proceeded rapidly. This created the framework for a needs-based and customer-oriented adult education organization.

Since January 1, 2015, BhW Niederösterreich GmbH has been a subsidiary of Kultur.Region.Niederösterreich GmbH . The second GmbH shareholder is the BhW Niederösterreich association.

goals and tasks

The Lower Austria Education and Home Office wants to give everyone in Lower Austria free access to education and culture in the sense of lifelong learning and holistic personal development. In the conception and implementation of the events, attention is paid to quality in terms of adult-friendly education.

Business areas in BhW Niederösterreich GmbH are:

  • Basic education: reading, writing, arithmetic and digital skills for adults who want to refresh or catch up on these skills
  • Education and career advice: Advice online or on site on all questions relating to professional reorientation, support, training and further education
  • Zeit Punkt Reading: the Lower Austrian reading initiative motivates an expanded reading term
  • Barrier-free: the competence center for municipalities for advice and awareness-raising
  • Voluntary support: Support and networking for the educational volunteers in the educational institutions

literature

  • Anton Hofer, Brigitte Pokorny: The education and Heimatwerk Niederösterreich from 1946 to 1985 - the "Gruber era" , publisher Verlag Bildungs ​​und Heimatwerk Niederösterreich, 2001, ISBN 3-9501521-1-3 .
  • Ernst Bruckmüller: Nation of Austria: cultural awareness and socio-political processes. Volume 4 of studies on politics and administration , Böhlau, Vienna, 1996, ISBN 3-205-98000-X , p. 191 ff.
  • Olaf Bockhorn, Klaus Beitl: Folklore Institutions in Austria. Volume 5 of Bio-bibliographisches Lexikon der Volkskunde ; Volume 26 of publications of the Austrian Museum for Folklore , Verlag des Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, Vienna, 1992. ISBN 978-3-900359-56-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NÖ Landesakademie ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 17, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bildung4you.at
  2. ↑ Website of the state capital St. Pölten accessed on April 17, 2010