News from 05/22/2021
The funding program “Culture makes you strong. Alliances for education” is a success story. The Federal Ministry of Education has therefore already announced that this will be continued in a third funding phase from 2023.
Neuwied district. ?? We are very happy that we can organize two holiday measures this year 2021 – in the summer and autumn holidays – in cooperation with the education office of the district and the primary schools in Rheinbrohl and Leutesdorf / Leubsdorf ??, explains museum director Dr. Frank Moseler from the Monrepos Archaeological Research Center and Museum for Human Behavioral Evolution spoke to the alliance partners who had come together to sign the cooperation agreement.
With regard to the consequences of the pandemic, it is very, very important for children and young people to have extra-curricular freedom in which they receive new impulses for their creativity and personal development and can finally experience social interaction again, explains Michael Mahlert, Head of Education Not only in these times the special importance of the funding project “Culture makes you strong”.
The formation of alliances is the central basis of the program. With alliances for education, local organizations can organize educational offers and, with their project idea for extracurricular cultural education for children and young people, receive funds as part of the support program? receive. This is how Andrea Oosterdyk from the education office briefly describes the basic concept of the program. While the museum is responsible for the application and the educational work, the education office helps with the search for new alliance partners and with the organization. It is the task of the schools to address the children and to inform the parents about the program and the procedures such as the bus transfer and catering.
With our concept that we at “Culture makes you strong” have submitted, it is possible to look for elementary schools changing from holiday time to holiday time as an alliance partner and thus to make the offer accessible to many schools in the Neuwied district, ?? adds museum director Dr. Frank Moseler the procedure.
The target group for the ten-day holiday camps are children and young people who have little or no access to cultural education. It started with the elementary schools of the Bad Hönningen community, as the community is not too far from the museum. The pilot project was developed for children in the third and fourth grades in the autumn holidays 2020 with the Bad Hönningen elementary school.
A questionnaire campaign among children and their parents showed that the children were able to broaden their horizons, experience a lot of new things and have a lot of fun and enjoyment in dealing with human history in a playful way. In the coming summer holidays, up to 20 children from the Rheinbrohl primary school can take part in the 10-day holiday camp with fun and games, but also learning opportunities on human behavioral evolution. During the autumn holidays, the Leutesdorf elementary school continues, which, due to its size, cooperates with the Leubsdorf elementary school, which is also small.
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