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Hands-on politics e. V.
legal form Non-profit registered association
founding 2006
Seat Altwarmbüchen / Hanover
Action space throughout Germany
Website www.politikzumanfassen.de

Hands-on politics e. V. is a non-profit , registered association that has been developing and implementing political education and media projects for school classes and adults since 2006 . His motto is: "We whet the appetite for democracy". The projects are independent , non-partisan and cross-school. The association finances itself primarily on a project basis and through cooperation with foundations . He has received several awards, and his project "Pimp Your Town!" Was chosen as the Land of Ideas 2011 as the best educational idea in Germany. Every year more than 5000 pupils from over 50 schools of all school types take part in the association's projects.

aims

The aim of the association is to bring schoolchildren closer to local politics and how to use the media responsibly. This is done, for example, with the help of business games or the use of media. In the course of this, complex topics such as forced marriage or naturalization are worked through and filmed with the students in film projects.

Projects

Simulation games

Students in the simulation game Pimp Your Town! 2013 in Hanover
Bernd Strauch in an interview at Pimp Your Town! 2013

The most famous business game is Pimp Your Town! , which has been conducting hands-on politics in cooperation with the state capital Hanover since 2009. Here, pupils are introduced to the basics of local politics in a playful way and then, like “real council politicians”, they first develop proposals in their groups (classes), which they in turn discuss in committees and then in the large council meeting. After each simulation game, the pupils' applications are also passed on to politicians, who discuss them again, check whether they are feasible and, to a large extent, implement them. The simulation game is accompanied by another class who, as a “press team”, produces a film and a printed magazine.

Due to the positive experience in Hanover, the simulation game has been carried out in a similar form since 2011 on Fehmarn under the name “Pimp My Island!” And in 2011 and 2012 in Hildesheim under the name “City Upgrade”. As of 2016, Pimp Your Town! also take place in Uetze , Hasbergen , Goslar , Hemmingen , Laatzen , the Hanover region , Cappeln , Jork and Isernhagen . Further simulation games were carried out as part of the “Earth Future Project” ( science in dialogue ) in Hanover, Munich and Magdeburg.

The association even implements abstract topics such as a set of rules for a district in a parliamentary process with students, for example with the “Sahlkamp Charter”.

Another characteristic of the hands-on policy games is the close cooperation with local politics, which enables both the later implementation of student applications and the implementation of the simulation game in the respective town hall.

Media projects

The media bus at the Hannover Nordstadt family conference

In the “Kulturscanner” project, school classes are divided into small working groups and independently acquire specialist knowledge about special cultural institutions. They then prepare these in order to convey them to their peers in an entertaining way.

For members of the Bundestag, such as Kerstin Tack (SPD), the association also deals with federal political issues with students. In the WahlkreisTACKtiker project, students make films on various topics such as data protection or career preparation, in which they collect opinions and facts on these topics in the area, among other things. They put these into film as surveys, interviews, comics or small game scenes.

Other film projects also produce films on complex social issues such as forced marriage or naturalization, some of which are widely used offline as well as being distributed on YouTube: For example, the film "Becoming Potatoes" is distributed to people who want to be naturalized at the Hanover naturalization authority and is explained in a simple and understandable way Way the way to German citizenship.

Other

In preparatory projects such as professional heroes , application sponsors or the I campaign , students get to know and present their own strengths better. They are also prepared for future job interviews and assessment centers , partly through cooperation with companies .

In survey projects such as Umfrage1417 , schoolchildren carry out a survey for each class, evaluate it and present the results to the public. The surveys mostly deal with the topic of “leisure behavior and quality of life of young people in the locality or district” and thus provide information for youth facilities and local politics .

Since 2012, the association has also been the sponsor of the media bus of the state capital Hanover, with which projects such as the FerienCard are carried out on the move.

Awards

The association at the City Culture Prize Hannover, 2013
  • In 2015, the association won the Best Witness Award at Panasonic's international KWN competition in Singapore.
  • In 2013, the Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance again awarded the association for an “exemplary project”, this year the “Sahlkamp Charter”.
  • In 2012 the association received the integration prize of the German-Turkish Network (DTN) for the “Sahlkamp Charter” together with the state capital Hanover .
  • In 2012, “Pimp your Town!” Was classified as “exemplary ” by the Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance and received a prize in the competition for democracy and tolerance .
  • In 2011, the association was the winner of the 1st integration award of the state capital Hanover in the media category.
  • In 2011 “Pimp your Town!” Was selected as the best educational idea in Germany, making the association the national winner in the Land of Ideas .
  • In 2011, the local political website “ Polarbsen.de ” was awarded a special prize as the best online school newspaper at the 21st Junior Press Prize.
  • The association was nominated for the German Engagement Prize in 2011 and 2012 .

Web links

Commons : Politics at your fingertips  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hannover.de: Pimp Your Town! is recognized as a “Landmark in the Land of Ideas” ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hannover.de
  2. ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine: "Schoolchildren bring 45 ideas into council policy"
  3. ↑ Neue Presse: "Pimp Your Town: Schoolchildren want to 'pimp' the city" "
  4. ↑ Fehmarn24: "'68ers' of the island school decided on a water ski facility"
  5. ↑ Neue Presse: "Sahlkamp students swear by rules"
  6. ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine: "Kulturscanner - Is that art and what for?"
  7. ↑ erebote: "Final presentation of the constituency TACKtiker"
  8. ↑ hannover.de: “A film about naturalization” ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hannover.de
  9. ↑ CelleToday: 120 high school students get application sponsors
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  11. ↑ German-Turkish Network ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dtn-network.de