Waldmünchen youth education center
The Youth Education Center Waldmünchen the district Upper Palatinate , the Catholic Workers Movement (KAB) and Young Christian Workers (CAJ) is one of the 13 youth training centers in Bavaria and is located in the city Waldmünchen in the district of Cham . As a youth hostel in Waldmünchen, it is affiliated with the German Youth Hostel Association (DJH). In addition, since 2013 the facility has also been a recognized Bavarian environmental station with the topics of climate change and the energy transition .
Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 44.3 " N , 12 ° 42 ′ 34.6" E
 
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The Waldmünchen youth education center is located near the border between Bavaria and the Czech Republic. |
financing
The operating and personnel costs are covered by grants from the Bavarian Youth Association, the Upper Palatinate administrative district , the working group for Catholic-Social Educational Institutions , the European Union and other grant providers . The buildings are maintained by the Zweckverband Jugendhaus, to which the district of Cham and the city of Waldmünchen belong. In addition, there are also self-generated funds, such as rents, which are paid by the groups that stay overnight in the youth education center .
Goal setting
The main tasks of the facility are job-related education (especially for schools in the Upper Palatinate region ), socio-political education , media education , environmental education , intercultural education and international youth encounters . As a youth hostel , the Waldmünchen youth education center is open to all associations, youth groups and individual travelers from Bavaria and beyond for their own events. The basis for the work is a Christian image of man. QESplus and a regular peer review of the Bavarian youth education centers serve as quality development systems .
Location, facility and history
The Waldmünchen youth education center is located in historic walls on the Schlossberg in the center of the town of Waldmünchen in the Cham district, close to the border with the Czech Republic and right in the Upper Palatinate Forest .
Inaugurated in 1983 as the Waldmünchen youth center, the Waldmünchen youth education center has been hosting children , young people and young adults from all social and educational levels since 1988 as an officially recognized youth education center by the Bavarian Youth Association . Most of it is barrier-free for wheelchair users . The more than 160 beds in two, three, four and six-bed rooms suitable for young people, as well as the leader rooms, offer space for a wide variety of groups. Varied catering (vegetarian or without pork on request) and a historical ambience form the framework. There is a wide range of conference and seminar rooms, the auditorium with piano and stage lighting, a meditation room with sacristy, numerous media (HD and miniDV cameras, projectors, digital cameras, audio recorders, daylight projectors, etc.) and multimedia PCs with high-speed internet and area-wide W-LAN free of charge for guests. At the nearby Perlsee , the Waldmünchen youth education center operates the “International Team Training Parcours” (ITP) with 9 ground-level stations for training communication and cooperation in teams.
Awards
- 2004: Youth Culture Promotion Prize of the Upper Palatinate District in the category projects for EU Eastern expansion in the age group 17 years and older
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Youth Culture Promotion Prize of the Upper Palatinate District: The Prize Winners 2000–… ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Upper Palatinate district.
