Educational and capacity building programmes by the Goethe-Institut

The Learning Journeys enable a core group of 100 participants to enter into direct dialogue with activists from the respective “other side” of the Mediterranean Sea.

In three journeys to Egypt, Italy and Germany between June and July 2012, they meet with young committed people from cultural and political areas of civil society to share objectives, methods and challenges with them.

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

The media, and in particular Internet and television, are gaining importance in Arabic societies.

The advanced training programme Cultural Television is aimed at people working in the media of conventional and online television. During a study journey to Germany they can discuss the existing cultural television formats with their makers and get to know the functions of public television.
Later, representatives of German television broadcasters will travel to Cairo for a conceptual workshop to advise the participants in the production of a pilot version of their own cultural magazine programme.
A project by the Goethe-Institut in the scope of the German-Egyptian Transformation Partnership.

The New Perspectives Network pursues the objective of a cross-border alliance of (Russian-speaking) environmental activists, who support one another in the work in their respective countries and raise awareness there for environmental issues.

The participants become familiar with German environmental initiatives working in culturally related formats. The programme also includes project management as well as controlling and moderating processes. The activists develop their own projects in the fields of film, visual arts, theatre and media, which emanate to a number of countries in the region and actively advocate the network ideal.

The Think Tank aims to activate alumni and enable them to participate in the political, economical, cultural and social shaping of their country and their region. The Think Tank offers the alumni an organizational structure, a social network and a practical field of action by promoting thinking and acting that crosses national borders, departmental responsibilities and professional skills with three different modes of access: local working groups, regional conferences and online training and networking via the Alumniportal Deutschland.

Das Programm Kulturmanagement unterstützt die Professionalisierung der Kulturschaffenden und fördert kulturelle Infrastruktur, unter anderem durch den Aufbau eines tragfähigen innerafrikanischen Netzwerks zwischen den Kultureinrichtungen und die Förderung der Zusammenarbeit afrikanischer und deutscher Kulturinstitutionen. An einem Initialworkshop im Goethe-Institut Johannesburg schließt sich die Fortbildung in Deutschland an. Um sich dort verständigen zu können, haben die Kulturmanager zuvor in ihren Heimatländern an Sprachkursen des Goethe-Instituts teilgenommen.