Evangelical adult education Lower Saxony

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The Evangelical Adult Education Lower Saxony (EEB Lower Saxony), headquartered in Hanover, is a state institution for the education of adults assigned to the House of Church Services of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover and sponsored by the member churches of the Confederation of Evangelical Churches in Lower Saxony .

history

In May 1965 the EEB Lower Saxony was founded as a working group for adult education. In order to be recognized as a cooperation partner of the State of Lower Saxony , the Evangelical Adult Education Lower Saxony had to become an institution of the Confederation of Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony. Since January 1974 it has been a legally dependent organization under the sponsorship of the five member churches of the Confederation of Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony. Until 1991, the EEB was divided into a state organization (EEB-LO) and a state institution (EEB-LE) in order to comply with the Adult Education Act. The EEB-LO was founded as an association of all institutions and ag's and represented the EEB externally, developed the programs and took care of the further and advanced training of the employees. The members of the EEB-LO were the Evangelical Academies in Loccum and Rastede , the folk high schools and educational institutions in Bückeburg , Ganderkesee , Hermannsburg , Loccum, Potshausen and Rastede, the family education centers in Lower Saxony and the Society of Ev. Academy of Lower Saxony. The EEB-LE's were dependent institutions of the confederation and took care of the work on site. In 1972, an educational advisory board for the state institution (EEB-LE) was established. In 1980 EEB-LE was represented with branches in Hanover, Lower Saxony-Mitte, Hildesheim, Göttingen, Stade, Osnabrück, East Friesland / Oldenburg and Braunschweig. Today the EEB Niedersachsen is divided into 13 branches , which are spread all over Lower Saxony, as well as the state branch. EEB Niedersachsen has 44 employees (as of March 2013). Since spring 2018, the Evangelical Adult Education Lower Saxony together with the town church Association Hannover carrier of Stadtakademie Hannover at the Neustadter-Hof and city church .

tasks

The EEB Niedersachsen carries out educational measures for adults who want to gain further professional training and qualifications and hold events on topics such as IT , languages, social skills and the like. and provides materials, work aids and speakers. She helps and advises in the planning and implementation of projects and trains course leaders. In 2011, Evangelical Adult Education held more than 177,000 hours of teaching and 6,000 events and is one of the largest providers of adult education in Lower Saxony. A yearbook is published annually in which the work is reported. Since December 2012, the EEB has been an approved agency under the law of employment promotion . Evangelical Adult Education Lower Saxony is one of the seven state institutions for adult education funded by the State of Lower Saxony. The agency for adult and advanced training of the Lower Saxony Federation for Free Adult Education is a partner of EEB Lower Saxony.

Involvement in the Office for Community Service / House of Church Services of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover

From 1966 the working group was integrated as a facility in the Office for Community Service (AfG) (Today House of Church Services) (HkD). It was the seat of the offices for the EEB-LE and EEB-LO, until spring 2018 the seat of the state office. From 1972 the EEB was part of the adult work unit. From 1977 to 1985, evangelical adult education was integrated as a special area in the office for community service. After that, it was an institution in the AfG that was equivalent to the subject areas . Today the EEB Lower Saxony is an institution assigned to the house of church services and cooperates closely with its departments / institutions and is involved in the overall tasks of the HkD. The administrative office of the House of Church Services takes on numerous tasks such as personnel administration and financial and budgetary matters for EEB Lower Saxony, since 2012 on the basis of an agency agreement between the Council of the Confederation and the House of Church Services.

EEB regional office

The educational management and management as well as central and overarching services are located in the regional office. She is u. a. Responsible for pedagogical and theological questions of principle, for advice and cooperation with the working groups in the regions and the planning and implementation of training measures for employees. It ensures the quality of the educational measures. She plans and accompanies projects and model projects. She represents EEB Lower Saxony in public and in church and public institutions. She is responsible for the cooperation with the House of Church Services. Since the spring of 2018, the office together with the Hannover City Academy has had its headquarters in Odeonstraße in Hannover. Until spring 2018 in the House of Church Services on Archivstrasse.

EEB regions and offices

Church districts , provosts , synodal associations and ecclesiastical institutions form working groups and educational institutions with the consent of the confederation and in accordance with the law of the regional churches and establish working rules. The working groups are part of EEB Lower Saxony and participate in the overall responsibility and tasks of EEB. They are headed by board members who represent the working groups in church and municipal bodies and the committees of the EEB in Lower Saxony, draw up the budget for their area and represent them to the EEB, advise on projects and local educational work and make decisions. The board members appoint managing directors as heads of the offices and participate in the employment of educational staff in their area. The cooperation with the regional office is regulated by agreements.

  • EEB Ostfriesland, Leer , EEB Ostfriesland working group.
  • EEB Oldenburg, Oldenburg , EEB Oldenburg working group.
  • Evangelisches Bildungswerk Ammerland, Westerstede , EEB working group in the Ammerland parish.
  • EEB Emsland / Bentheim, Nordhorn , EEB Emsland / Bentheim working group.
  • EEB Region Osnabrück, Osnabrück , EEB Region Osnabrück Working Group.
  • EEB Nord, Stade , EEB Nord consortium.
  • EEB Osterholz-Scharmbeck / Rotenburg / Verden, Verden , EEB Osterholz-Scharmbeck / Rotenburg / Verden working group.
  • EEB Lüneburg, Lüneburg , EEB Lüneburg working group.
  • EEB Hanover / Schaumburg-Lippe, Hanover, Hanns-Lilje-Haus , EEB Hanover / Lower Saxony Center working group, Schaumburg-Lippe working group.
  • EEB in the House of Church Services, responsible for the cooperation with the House of Church Services and other supraregional regional church institutions and works, supraregional events (included in the regional office).
  • EEB Gifhorn-Wittingen-Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg , EEB Gifhorn-Wittingen-Wolfsburg working group.
  • EEB Region Hildesheim, Hildesheim , EEB Region Hildesheim Working Group.
  • EEB Braunschweig, Braunschweig , EEB Braunschweig working group.
  • EEB Südniedersachsen, Göttingen , EEB Südniedersachsen working group.

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board is established by the Council of the Confederation. The advisory board promotes and supports the work of EEB Lower Saxony and prepares resolutions. It consists of four representatives of the EEB working groups and educational institutions who are not professionally active in EEB Lower Saxony, three representatives from the field of universities and / or adult education, two pedagogical employees, two advisors responsible for adult education from the member churches and the pedagogue Head of EEB Lower Saxony. Members are elected for five years by the Council of the Confederation. Other people take part in an advisory capacity. The advisory board participates in the development of principles and guidelines for evangelical adult education and advises on the definition of work priorities with the associated structural, financial and personnel issues. He accompanies and advises the regional office and prepares recommendations for the church bodies. He is to be involved in the appointment of the pedagogical director through a hearing.

National conference

The chairmen of the boards of the working groups / educational institutions together with the members of the advisory board form the state conference. It is convened and chaired by the chairman of the advisory board at least every two years. The conference promotes the exchange of experiences, advises on fundamental issues of adult education and the EEB Lower Saxony. It decides on the list of proposals for the appointment of representatives from the working groups / educational institutions and from the field of universities / adult education for the advisory board.

management

EEB Lower Saxony is headed by a pedagogical director and managing director, who has been a member of the management committee of the House of Church Services since 2012.

Memberships

EEB Lower Saxony is a member of the German Evangelical Working Group for Adult Education and the Lower Saxony Association for Free Adult Education

Literature / writings (selection)

  • Dirk Riesener : People's Mission-between People's Church and Republic. 75 years house of church services - formerly the office for community service - of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover Lutherisches Verlagshaus GMBH, Hanover 2012, ISBN 978-3-7859-1080-1 , The Evangelical Adult Education: pp. 326–334 among others
  • Yearbook 24, commemorative publication for the 40th anniversary of EEB Lower Saxony, Hanover, 2004/2005
  • Working aid No. 17, Against the Depression as we get older, Hanover, September 2013

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c About EEB Lower Saxony. In: www.eeb-niedersachsen.de. Retrieved April 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ What we do. In: stadtakademie-hannover.de. Retrieved April 10, 2020 .
  3. ^ Structure of the House of Church Services in the book Dirk Riesener: Volksmission-75 years House of Church Services, inside of the book spine
  4. ↑ Yearbook 24 - 2004/2005 40 years EEB Lower Saxony A commemorative publication. (Pdf) In: www.eeb-niedersachsen.de. 2004, accessed April 10, 2020 .