Non-profit educational year
The non-profit educational year (GBJ), roughly comparable to the voluntary cultural year, is a youth volunteer service that is unique in Germany and combines cultural, political and social engagement at the local level.
In addition to the Voluntary Social Year , the Voluntary Ecological Year and the Voluntary Cultural Year, there has also been an opportunity since 2002 to take the non-profit educational year in Baden-Württemberg . Every year from the beginning of September to the end of August high school graduates do their service in the various deployment locations. Legally, the GBJ corresponds to the voluntary social year and has been recognized as community service .
The application for the project is made in writing and, after a selection process, is continued in a personal conversation with the applicants, the last step is a selection interview with the responsible persons of the deployment locations and the applicants.
development
The non-profit educational year was launched in 2002 by Stuttgart's Lord Mayor Wolfgang Schuster and Achim Laur, a personal employee of cultural mediation. Since the start of the project, the number of job sites has increased from six to 30 in 2007. The project is supported by the staff unit “Promotion of Civic Engagement”, the Stuttgart Community Foundation, the Baden-Württemberg State Center for Civic Education and the Robert Bosch Foundation . Little by little, several cities in Baden-Württemberg were added, so that the GBJ is now offered by seven cities (Stuttgart, Freiburg, Böblingen, Karlsruhe, Reutlingen, Trossingen and Villingen-Schwenningen).
Goal setting
The aim of the non-profit educational year is to enable young people to experience both cultural and communal areas. Attention is paid to the interweaving of cultural and communal levels and to the lively exchange between the participants. The young people should learn that administrative work in a district office is important for the socio-cultural environment of a city.
The aim is to provide an overall impression of the interaction between culture and society, which should contribute to the development of high school graduates in becoming responsible and responsible citizens.
Job sites
The locations in the cities experience a fundamental subdivision into cultural and administrative institutions, here using the example of Stuttgart.
Administrative bodies
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Cultural institutions
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Training program
In addition to the work in the respective location, a further training program is offered. This includes day trips such as visits to the theater, galleries and museums, as well as multi-day seminars in the area of local and European politics and educational trips to Berlin, Brussels and Strasbourg. In this way, the interests of the individual participants should be satisfied and an overall impression of urban life and communal culture should be created. Overall, however, the training program differs from city to city.
Effects
At the end of January 2008, on the initiative of some former and current participants, the association, which operates independently of the state capital, was founded to promote the non-profit educational year. Its main goal is to make the GBJ known nationwide. At the same time, the association enables a permanent exchange between former, current and future participants as well as project work and funding within the GBJ.
Individual evidence
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