Volkshochschule Donauwörth
| Volkshochschule Donauwörth e. V. | |
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| Logo of the German Adult Education Association and also of the Donauwörth Adult Education Center | |
| type of school | Community College |
| founding | 1948 |
| address |
Spindeltal 5 |
| place | Donauwörth |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 43 '11 " N , 10 ° 46' 46" E |
| management | Paul Soldner (chairman of the association), Gudrun Reisser (manager) |
| Website | www.vhs-don.de |
The Volkshochschule Donauwörth is an adult education center (Vhs) in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia . Several branch offices, a yoga school and a professional training center are connected to it.
history
Vhs Donauwörth was founded in 1948 as a registered association and consists of a board of directors, management and a board of trustees. After the establishment, several branch offices were added over the years: Monheim (Schwaben) (1954), Wemding (1960), Rain am Lech (1975), Tapfheim (1976), Asbach-Bäumenheim (1977), Kaisheim (1985) and Mertingen (2013). Over the years a number of training licenses have been obtained and professional certificate courses have been offered. In 1976, for example, the Vhs Donauwörth became an electronics training center in Germany recognized by the Heinz Piest Institute (HPI) of today's Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover ; The first IT introductory courses were offered. In 1979 the Vhs Donauwörth was the first adult education center in Bavaria to receive special grants from the Bavarian Ministry of Economics and Transport for equipment investments in the electronics sector . In 1981 it became a training center of the German Association for Welding Technology (DVS) and received the license from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) for Augsburg and Swabia for the nationwide course to obtain the IHK secretary's diploma. In the mid-1980s, among other things, nationally and globally recognized certificate courses in English were introduced. The Vhs Donauwörth has been a premium advice center for the federal education premium in the Donau-Ries district since 2009 . In 2015, the language certificate course Russian A1 (according to Telc GmbH ) was offered for the first time by an adult education center in Bavaria . In 2015 the yoga school and the Vhs Donauwörth entered into a cooperation. In 2016 the Vhs Donauwörth was officially recognized by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees as a provider of integration courses .
Program areas
The program areas of the Vhs Donauwörth are society, work & IT, languages, health, culture & travel and lifestyle.
Projects
In 2014 the project “Democracy Driving License for Young People with and without Disabilities” was carried out as part of a Germany-wide model project funded by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs .
In 2016 the project “Innovative Language Teaching” was started, which in 2017 led to the project “Innovative European Language Teaching”. It is researched how in Europe language is not only used to give or request information, but also which emotions and associations it triggers and how one consequently better competence for conversations with other Europeans, but also as Europeans with people from other regions can acquire - both when learning a foreign language and when looking at one's own mother tongue. Europe is always taken into account in all its cardinal directions. The results of this eurolinguistic research flow directly into general Europe-related offers in the areas of “language courses” and “language / thinking / culture”. The project manager is Joachim Grzega . The project also integrates the concepts of Basic Global English and Speech Emergency Doctor as well as the language workout method .
Publications
- Konrad Böswald (Red.): Volkshochschule Donauwörth: a documentation about the VHS Donauwörth and its branches in Rain, Wemding, Monheim, Tapfheim, Asbach-Bäumenheim. Published by Volkshochschule Donauwörth, founded in 1948; Donauwörth 1979, ISBN 978-3-922398-00-4
- Joachim Grzega: "Language and culture in Europe - interactive, instructive and entertaining: A short report on the InES project area of Vhs Donauwörth." In: Journal for EuroLinguistiX 15 (2018): 16–22.
- Joachim Grzega: “Europe's languages from literacy to B2 - learning aids, L1, LdL: A report on the InES project area of the Vhs Donauwörth.” In: Journal for EuroLinguistiX 15 (2018): 23–47.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.vhs-don.de/vhs-don/wir-ueber-uns/historie.html , viewed on May 15, 2017
- ↑ https://www.vhs-don.de/vhs-don/wir-ueber-uns/historie.html , viewed on May 15, 2017
- ↑ https://www.vhs-don.de/innovative-europaeische-sprachlehre , viewed on May 15, 2017
- ^ Report in the Donauwörther Zeitung