Educational and capacity building programmes by the Goethe-Institut

The Advanced Training for Publishers is a joint programme by the Goethe-Institut, the Mediacampus Frankfurt and the Frankfurt Book Fair. It offers publishers, managers, editors and other employees in the publishing sector systematic, modular, multimedia advanced training tailored to the needs of publishers in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The project serves professional capacity building and creates a basis to help make the infrastructures of the book and publishing industry more functional and independent. At the same time, the project contributes to building networks within the countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Germany and establishes alliances with possible partners in Germany.

The intensive workshop offers the opportunity to receive practical advice from renowned filmmakers from Europe and the region for your own film project, to get to know other filmmakers from all over Southeast Asia, share knowledge and network with one another.
Applications are accepted from filmmakers from Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam who have a documentary film project in the phases of pre-production, production or post-production.
The summer school is part of Docnet South East Asia aimed at independent filmmakers, producers, film academies, TV stations and other important stakeholders and with the objective of creating adequate preconditions for a documentary film scene.

Due to the lack of professionally trained piano tuners in India, the Goethe-Institut Kolkata together with the renowned Oscar Walcker School in Ludwigsburg offers advanced training seminars for Indian piano tuners. The school has been training piano and harpsichord makers for more than 80 years. Besides manufacturing, the curriculum also includes tuning and regulating the mechanisms. A full scholarship offers 12 participants the opportunity to enhance their skills at a four-week advanced training seminar. The seminar consists of 160 lesson hours in theory and practice in addition to visits to piano manufacturers, suppliers and instrument collections. After passing a final exam, participants receive a certificate.

In autumn 2012, the Goethe-Institut will offer a two-month advanced training for cultural journalists from the Arabic world in Germany. A 4-week seminar phase in Berlin will be followed by individual internships at institutions all over Germany.
The objective of the programme is to enhance the professional skills of Arabic cultural journalists, to set up a solid Arabic network between the journalists and their organizations and to promote dialogue between German and Arabic institutions.

A project by the Goethe-Institut in the scope of the German-Egyptian-Tunisian Transformation Partnership.

The programme supports the professionalization of those working in the cultural sector, promotes cultural infrastructure by establishing a solid inner-African network and the cooperation of African and German cultural institutions. An initial workshop at the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg will be followed by the advanced training in Germany. The participants previously attended Goethe-Institut language courses in their home countries. During the theoretical phase, the participants complete a four-week advanced training, covering subjects such as project management, marketing, and public relations. Following the advanced training they are interns for two to four weeks at cultural institutions in Germany that match their professional backgrounds.

In the scope of this educational programme, the Goethe-Institut invites young professional musicians from Germany to spend a number of months in Indonesia, where they teach both music students and teachers.

The advanced training is aimed at musicians of wind instruments.

Following Christian Syperek, Benjamin Fischer, Jan Leuckefeld, from August 2012, Peter Bazylek will be in Jakarta for six months.