Educational and capacity building programmes by the Goethe-Institut

I got it! is the first TV knowledge magazine for children in the Southeast Asia region. Under the motto “Nine TV Broadcasters – One Vision” the Goethe Institut developed the ten-minute magazine together with state and public television stations from Brunei, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
Encouraged by various educational authorities, in 2009, the Goethe-Instituts launched a pilot programme to set the first knowledge magazine made especially for children in Southeast Asia in motion. The local teams are supported by two editors from German children’s television, who supervise the productions from finding topics to writing scripts, from shooting to post production.

Contrasena Verde is an audiovisual eco-magazine for children. With it, the Goethe-Institut aims to strengthen a network of Latin American public television stations producing high-quality children’s programmes. What environmental issues do children perceive? What solutions can improve our lives? Contrasena Verde gives children between the ages of 8 and 12 the opportunity to present their own answers to these questions. The programme accents fun and the joy of discovery.
Planning meetings, advanced training courses and seminars as well as media and environmental experts from Latin America and Europe accompany the creation and development of the format and convey tools for people working in television.

The Science Film Festival initiated in 2005 by the Goethe-Instituts in Thailand in one of a kind: It is dedicated to films from Europe and Asia that examine technical and natural science themes in an entertaining way and make them comprehensible for a broad audience. The festival promotes a culture of science films that prove that conveying knowledge and learning can be fun.

The festival sees itself as a platform for intercultural dialogue among very different ways of seeing the world of knowledge. This concern was underscored in 2011 by the festival’s regionalization. Since the films are meant to reach mainly pupils and students, they are dubbed in the respective national languages.