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Ebersberg constituency representative Thomas Huber has announced that the KIDZ Zinneberg educational project will receive funding of EUR 21,600 from the 2016 Culture Fund. The cultural association “dieKunstBauStelle e. V.” is planning to implement an extracurricular educational measure in cooperation with the Schloss Zinneberg youth welfare facility to promote the linguistic and cultural integration of unaccompanied refugee minors together with German schoolchildren. The theater “Die Stelzer”, which already accompanied the pilot phase in 2016, will again accompany the trauma education work.
“Education and language acquisition is the first step towards successful integration into society. By approving this funding, the Free State of Bavaria is once again underlining this and sending out a strong signal,” said Huber.
Over the course of the 2016/2017 school year, 26 creative days are to be held in the form of workshops with up to 70 pupils from the vocational integration classes at the vocational schools in Wasserburg and the vocational school for special educational needs at Schloss Zinneberg, as well as the special needs center for social and emotional development at Schloss Zinneberg. In the workshops at Schloss Zinneberg, teaching content is specifically addressed in consultation with the teachers with the aim of creating valuable synergy effects between project work and regular lessons. The final event is a project week at the end of the school year, which culminates in a performance and/or exhibition.
Thomas Huber sees a lot of potential in the project and demands: “If it turns out at the end of the project that everyone involved benefits from the measure, then an expansion of this model to the whole of Bavaria should be considered,” summarized Huber.
Cultural Fund 2016 comprises 6.1 million euros – including over 600,000 for education
This year, a total of 462,000 euros is available for the education sector from the 2016 Cultural Fund, plus almost 174,000 euros for follow-up measures from last year. Almost 128,000 euros of the funding will now go towards adult education and church education work, while around 334,000 euros are available for other cultural events ranging from music festivals and theater projects to integrative and inclusive education and art projects. Across Bavaria, a total of 20 projects in the field of education will be supported by the 2016 Cultural Fund. “The cultural fund supports culture and education across the board and in all regions of our state,” explains Huber, the CSU parliamentary group’s spokesperson for demographic policy.
Information on the project at: https://diekunstbaustelle.de/portfolio/k-i-d-z-zinneberg-2015-kulturelle-integration/
Thomas Huber: Website Thomas Huber – Zinnebergprojekt
Pictures: © Wolfgang Hauck