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Vernetzung, Vernetzung, Veränderung - Bildungspolitik gemeinsam gestalten
Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The aim of the project ?Vernetzung, Verständigung, Veränderung ? Bildungspolitik gemeinsam gestalten (connecting, communicating, changing ? design education policy collectively)? was to empower students to formulate and represent confidently their own concerns as well as to teach them how to act independently and self-determined. The students have learnt how education political structures work and to what extend they have the opportunity to play a part and change those. Throughout the project the students connected with other students from different schools, created projects and discussed their postulations with school policymakers. Starting at the first of August 2014 and ending the thirty first of April 2015 all activities of the project took place at Feriendorf Dorado. The initial phase of the project was an eight day training for ?Dialogmoderation? of 15 students coming from three different schools. Those students were being qualified to contribute to and moderate participation and changing processes in school. Additionally the training covers writing concept and preparing the following simulation seminar and the advanced training concerning themes such as student council work, education policy and structures of the European Union. The 15 students who participated in the training for ?Dialogmoderation? accompanied the whole project and the subsequent activities. The second phase of the project was a three day simulation seminar during the months October and November 2014 which was attended by the student council of the three different schools each one contributing five students who took part in the seminar ?Dialogmoderation?. About 33 participants thought, learnt and discussed about how changes in school and the school system can be reached and which role the decision makers really play. Due to an experimental game the students adapt different roles and simulate different changing processes scoping within and without the school context. Conclusively the decision which school political decision maker will be invited to the following dialogue seminar was collaboratively made. The three to four day dialogue seminar which forms the third part of the project took place in October and November 2014. It was attended by the three student councils accompanying the project plus two student councils form additional other schools. After an extensive survey about the problems and desires of change in their classes, the students could represent and contribute those at the seminar. The 75 participants developed a common understanding of school political changing processes and its influence on the possibilities of participation. Together the students created new projects concerning making a change at their own school but also comprehensively aiming to make a change in the school system of Berlin. School political decision makers visited the dialogue seminar speaking with the students about the project ideas and the related requests. The three student councils who took part in the simulation seminar could know share their knowledge and experiences with the other two schools during the concerted process. Subsequently after the dialogue seminar the students developed and implemented their project together with the support and coordination of the trained students having taken part in the first phase ?Dialogmoderation? of the project. Those ?dialogue moderators? not only got the chance to participate in the creation of phase two and three, but also to reflect the done work and state a final conclusion meaning to take responsibility for oneself.
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