Main aims:
Enabling children and young people to take part in cultural education regardless of their socio-economic backgrounds; offering opportunities for cultural education during and outside school hours; establishing cooperation between providers of education and/or culture at local and regional levels; triggering social developments and a sense of responsibility among the public; training artists for jobs in education; providing cultural affairs training for the coming generation of specialists and managers; supporting innovation in cultural education
Target groups:
Children and young people; schools associated with projects or programmes; multipliers; pupils; teachers; cultural stakeholders; artists; cultural institutions; potential international students with experience in the field who wish to expand their expertise in cultural affairs management
Expected results:
* Setting up cultural education measures in and outside schools as opportunities for educationally disadvantaged children and young people
* Enabling pupils to enjoy better educational prospects and a greater sense of social belonging
* Identifying project schools in the field of cultural education; providing training and networking opportunities for teaching staff and other art educators
* Building long-term ties among schools with a focus on culture
* Investigating the effect of performance art and musical education on pupils' socio-emotional experience and career choices
* Strengthening actors in amateur culture, particularly clubs, by creating opportunities to attract younger members
* Enabling creators of cultural content to tackle the challenges posed by digitalisation, demographic change and globalisation
* Offering programmes on personal development and good cultural leadership for the coming generation of specialists and managers
New in the 2016-2019 reporting period: programme evaluated from 2013 to 2017, final report published in 2018; between 2013 and 2019, a total of over 11,000 Education Alliances founded, more than 25,000 projects conducted with over 800,000 children and young people, over 90% of Alliances involved volunteers
EU222 million in federal funding spent between 2016 and 2020
| Name of partner | Type of entity |
|---|---|
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
| Public Sector
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German Non-Denominational Welfare Association (Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband)
| Civil Society Organization (CSO)
|
Union of Federal Associations for Cultural Youth Education (Bundesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung)
| Civil Society Organization (CSO)
|
Association of German Music Schools (Verband deutscher Musikschulen)
| Civil Society Organization (CSO)
|
German Adult Education Association (Deutscher Volkshochschulverband)
| Civil Society Organization (CSO)
|
Stated objectives of the "Culture is Strength" programme attained: children aged from 3 to 18 from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds who would have had no or limited access to culture enabled to participate in cultural events across Germany; local actors successfully networked; the evaluation of this measure for 2013 to 2017 is available online: https://www.bmbf.de/files/BMBF027_KMS%20Evaluation%20Schlussbericht_bf.pdf.