Voluntary Cultural Year

Topics

• The Landesvereinigung Kulturelle Jugendbildung

• Cultural Voluntary Service

• Reasons for a voluntary year

• Duties of the deployment locations

• Deployment Location: Anne Frank Zentrum

• Deployment Location: Jugend Museum

Landesvereinigung Kulturelle Jugendbildung Berlin e.V.

(Association for cultural youth education in Berlin)

Providing organisation in Berlin-Brandenburg

• Landesvereinigung Kulturelle Jugendbildung is an umbrella organisation for creative-cultural educational in Berlin

• 34 member organisations• since 01.09.2001 recognized provider for the

FSJK (Voluntary Cultural Year) in Berlin• since 01.09.2003 recognized provider for the

FSJK (Voluntary Cultural Year) in Brandenburg

The Voluntary Cultural Year (FSJK)

The FSJK (Voluntary Cultural Year)

–The year lasts exactly 12 months

–volunteers can apply directly for a deployment locations or ask the LKJ to be allocated

–They work 40h/week

–25 days are reserved for further education which is organised by the LKJ

–Thevolunteers have to work on an own cultural project

–At the end of the year they receive a certificate

FSJK 2008/09

• 1200 applications / 123 volunteer positions

• Berlin: 94 volunteers / 71 deployment locations

• Brandenburg: 29 volunteers / 24 deployment locations

Reasons for a voluntary year

Duties of the deployment locations

The deployment locations

• Intitutions in the cultural and/or youth education sector

• Charitable• Have to provide a meaningful task• Provide pedagogical companionship to the

volunteer• Pay 350 € in order to finance the volunteer

position

Example #1Jugend Museum Schöneberg

• Volunteer: Teresa Tjards

• *1989 in Wilhelmshaven (Niedersachsen), North Germany

• 2008 High School Graduation (German Abitur)

• 2008 – 2009

Voluntary Cultural Year in the Jugend Museum Schöneberg in Berlin

„After my „Abitur“ I wasn´t sure what I should study. So the Voluntary Social Year of

Culture in Berlin is a good opportunity for me in order to search for my identity.“

Example #1Jugend Museum Schöneberg

a historical museum for young people in Berlin-SchönebergTeam: explorers, technicians, craftsmans, pedagogues of theatre/film/social/museum, pupils who make an internship

Example #1Jugend Museum Schöneberg

Our programm: active historical researchcreating a dialogue between the past and presentinviting school classes to experiment and promote the desire to discover things on their ownFurther: Exhibits, projects, history workshops, artistic workshops, city walks

Permanent Exhibition: Room of miracles

54 high transport boxes: findings, treasures of various areas of Berlin's history, miraculous or everyday qualitiesAuthentic objects, from Germanic sacrificial cows to Barbie = creating a detective feel for the exploration of the past and present. search for sth. further: the archive

Example #2Anne Frank Zentrum

Volunteer: Tommy Tesfu

•*1987 in Dortmund

•2008 Secondary Level Graduation (German Abitur)

•2008 / 2009 FSJK (Voluntary Social Year of Culture) in the Anne Frank Center Berlin

•Stage poet since 2006

Example #2Anne Frank Zentrum

Fighting Discrimination, Antisemitism, right-wing extremismprepares pedagogues and kids for a intercutlural societyDevelops new pedagogical methods and materialPeer to peer educationAnne Frank's story as a chance to reach young people's minds

Anne Frank ZentrumTouring Exhibition

Touring exhibitions everywhere in GermanyTeenagers on site receive an exhibition guide training from the Anne Frank ZentrumThese teenagers then guide school classes as through the exhibition

Anne Frank ZentrumExhibition in Berlin

The focus is on young people

Provides guided tours for school classes

The kids explore the exhibition by theirselves

Videos showing thoughts of 5 kids from Berlin are compared to Anne Frank's thoughts

The guides are in their twenties (peer-to-peer education)

Thank you yery much for your attention!