While ten communities in the Leader region Weinviertel-Manhartsberg have educational rooms, the eleventh has an entire campus available. How it came about that the Zellerndorfer education team can use half a school building, explains education council Karl Reilinger: “At first it was ridiculed”, he remembers the beginnings of the education campus.
The course was already set under Mayor Karl Schwayer. Elementary and middle school students moved to a new wing. The old part of the school building, which was built in the 1950s, was free for the community’s educational institutions. The library, education and homeland works, music school, Bacher-Runde and the healthy community now find a home on campus.
“Education is very important, it contributes to quality interaction with one another.” Zellerndorf’s education councilor Karl Reilinger
“The Leader region has given a lot of support to the equipment here,” says Reilinger, grateful that the educational rooms project exists. Acoustic ceiling, projector, screen, sound system, furniture: “We have invested around 40,000 euros in this room.” Around 70 percent of this was financed through the Leader funding program. In the times before the pandemic, the lecture room was fully booked every evening – including sports courses. Why? “Because our gym is also fully utilized,” explains Reilinger.
“For me, education also includes social contacts, the community and the ability to work off the body,” adds Anna Dworzak, who is in charge of the healthy community. The contact is especially important for those who are new to the church.
“We are now in the third year with the Healthy Church. The offer has been very well received, ”says Reilinger happily. In any case, the education council believes that there is a great demand for education.
Sandra Frank
Before the 2nd lockdown, there was still a lot going on in the Zellerndorfer library: Susanne Tröthan (center) from the library team was happy about the visit from Karl Reilinger and Anna Dworzak (from right), while Sabine Graf and daughter Rosa were looking for a book.
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There are always exhibitions to admire, “leftovers” from the anniversary year 2019 – 30 years of “No” to the nuclear waste repository, 30 years of the fall of the Iron Curtain and 40 years of music school – can be found on display boards in the stairwell.
A major project that had to be postponed to next year due to the corona crisis is an Environment Month. Workshops, experiments, an exhibition and lectures, including a regional market, were planned on the educational campus.
“We are proud that we have so much space available for education,” says Reilinger, who is important: “Without the community, none of this would be possible. Education is very important to our Mayor Markus Baier. ”Dworzak is also grateful for this, who particularly likes the fact that although different approaches come together in the education team,“ everyone is fully behind it, and that in his free time ”.
The different heads, besides Dworzak and Reilinger, are Erwin Mayer and Christina Scharinger, would complement each other very well. Reilinger sums up the team’s drive: “Education contributes to quality interaction with one another.”
Even if the training campus is busy, inputs are important to the team: “If someone has new ideas, they are welcome to contact us. We are open to everything, ”emphasizes Dworzak.
The next event on the education campus was to broadcast the Monday Academy. Lectures from the Karl-Franzens University Graz are broadcast here in the educational rooms of the Leader region. The lecture (November 9th) is full, but the participants will listen to it in their own four walls via live stream. The topic: Where does medical progress challenge the law?
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