Framework concept "School Integration Management" (SEM)
Wolfsburg, October 05, 2022
On October 5, 2022, the City of Wolfsburg, in cooperation with the Regional Office for Schools and Education, Braunschweig, published the framework concept "School Inclusion Management" (SEM).
Based on the vision of full participation of children and adolescents with health problems in education as well as an improvement of equal opportunities with regard to the achievement of educational qualifications (prevention of dropouts), the concept was developed in a participation-oriented manner and presented to all schools and network partners in October.
In order to show children and young people with or after health problems ways to learn successfully, the framework concept sets out a legally secure procedure for gradual reintegration.
All schools in Wolfsburg's educational landscape thus have a concept at their disposal that they can adapt to their own school processes.
The "Strategic Education Management" department of the City of Wolfsburg is coordinating and evaluating the implementation phase.
For more information, please contact
Cordula Lüken (Project Management)
Phone: 05361 28-1745
DIGITAL FAMILY DIALOGUE 2021
Wolfsburg, March 17, 2021
With the Digital Family Dialogue 2021, the Wolfsburg Family Alliance, in cooperation with the Youth Department of the City of Wolfsburg and the Bildungshaus Wolfsburg, has launched a new format. The Digital Family Dialogue offers presentations on current family-related topics and promotes exchange with the speakers and participants in the plenary session.
"What we can learn from the Corona crisis for work-life balance" - Dr. Martin Bujard.
With his presentation "What we can learn from the Corona crisis for the compatibility of work and family", Dr. Martin Bujard summarized the Corona experiences of parents on February 23, 2021. Findings on the current distribution of working and family time, the division of labor in families, opportunities and risks of the home office were presented and then discussed in the plenary session. Possible tendencies towards retraditionalization and changing life plans of families were addressed and a look at the realities in the rush hour of life formed the basis for the insightful presentation and a multi-layered discussion.
Regional Office for Schools and Education Braunschweig and City of Wolfsburg sign agreement
Wolfsburg, April 27, 2022
Wolfsburg program
City of Wolfsburg promotes new future projects for children and young people
Wolfsburg, June 25, 2021. With the "Wolfsburg Program", the City of Wolfsburg is funding new projects and plans for children and young people in the form of a one-time grant to support their development and relieve the burden on them, and to promote non-formal and informal educational opportunities.
The situation of children and young people and families has deteriorated in many areas of life as a result of corona-related measures such as daycare and school closures, the discontinuation of sports, music and cultural activities and, not least, private contact restrictions. In the meantime, there are numerous studies on significant learning deficits, mental and physical stress, developmental abnormalities (social-emotional), lack of exercise or weight gain among children and adolescents as a result of the pandemic restrictions. In many families there are overload situations.
In particular, children from socially disadvantaged and poor families run the risk of not being able to catch up on learning deficits due to a lack of resources for support. The disadvantage is also exacerbated in families where the legal guardians and their children do not have sufficient knowledge of German. In addition, there is a deficit in the participation of children and young people. The free spaces of children and young people, which are important for their development, have completely disappeared.
For this reason, a budget of €100,000 will be made available by the city of Wolfsburg in fiscal year 2021 to support projects and plans for children and young people to help them develop and relieve the burden on them, and to promote non-formal and informal educational opportunities in the form of a one-off grant. The funding pot is intended to help restore development and participation opportunities as well as equal opportunities for Wolfsburg's children and young people and to mitigate the negative effects of the Corona pandemic.
- Further information and application documents at www.wolfsburg.de/wolfsburgprogramm
The new clarity
City of Wolfsburg launches online survey to create a digital platform for educational, recreational and advisory services
Wolfsburg, April 12, 2021: Where can Wolfsburg residents find sound advice, continuing education programs, information about daycare centers and schools, or simply a course that fits? Wolfsburg has so much to offer. But in the confusing mix of offers, much remains undiscovered. But that is about to change.
The education office of the city of Wolfsburg is currently developing a digital platform in the network of education partners / with bundled information on education, leisure and counseling offers in Wolfsburg. This platform is intended as a supplement to the digital offerings of the city of Wolfsburg and is expected to be available to all Wolfsburg citizens by the end of the year as a website and app (web app). On the one hand, small and large providers alike will have the opportunity to present their services in a clear, low-threshold, clear and to the point manner, while on the other hand, citizens of Wolfsburg will be able to find individually suitable services and content centrally in one place and access them quickly, easily and low-threshold.
"With just one platform, we are creating digital access to all the educational potential of Wolfsburg's educational landscape. This opens up a wide range of suitable offerings for all citizens along their educational biographies," explains Iris Bothe, City Councilor for Youth, Education and Integration. The aim is not only to make the platform easy to use, but also to ensure that people enjoy using it and that it provides users with clear added value. Even people with little digital competence should be able to use the platform and quickly find suitable offers.
"So that well-intentioned things don't later fail in reality, it is necessary to involve our citizens* directly in the platform design and implementation," adds Petra Ringmann, Head of Strategic Education Management. "Participation is useful in the development of a platform not only to develop systems that are easy to use, but also to identify what exactly its users need. This sustainably improves acceptance when the platform is introduced." Therefore, all target groups should be included in the development process of the platform, but especially those layers that have not yet been reached with educational, recreational and counseling offers, in order to be able to take their wishes and expectations regarding the use of this platform into account in the best possible way.
For this reason, the City of Wolfsburg invites all citizens to participate in a short online survey from April 12 to 30. At wolfsburg.de/werwaswob you can participate in the creation of the web app.