Organisation:

KulturKontakt Austria
Spittelberggasse 3
Telephone: +43-1-5238765-0
Fax: +43-1-5238765-50
Internet: www.kulturkontakt.or.at
 

Contact person: (member of reference group)

Florian Sobanski (Project manager I.M.PACT, Team leader Project Initiative KulturKontakt, PIKK)
Tel: +43-1-5238765-90
E-mail: Florian.Sobanski@kulturkontakt.or.at
 

Other contact person:

Monika Mott (Adviser, Head of Education)
Phone: 43-1-5238765-53
E-mail: Monika.Mott@kulturkontakt.or.at
 

Names of I.M.PACT trainers:
 

(KulturKontakt Austria provides the project management and implementation, as well as the organisation of regional activities)
 

Mission:

KulturKontakt Austria ist ein Kompetenzzentrum für kulturelle Bildung, Kulturvermittlung, kulturellen Dialog und Bildungskooperation im Kontext des Europäischen Integrationsprozesses durch

• Beiträge zum kultur- und bildungspolitischen Auftrag des Staates,

• Mitwirkung und Beratung der Auftraggeber in Bezug auf innovative Strategien im Bereich der kulturellen Bildung und der internationalen Bildungs- und Kulturzusammenarbeit,

• Förderung des kulturellen Dialogs zwischen Österreich und den Staaten Mittel-, Ost- und Südosteuropas und Unterstützung der Bildungsreformen in dieser Region,

• Beratung und Vermittlung im Bereich Kultursponsoring,

• Beratung, Förderung und Durchführung kultureller Projekte im schulischen Umfeld bzw. im NPO-Bereich durch personale Kunstvermittlung sowie durch die

• Förderung der partizipativen Kommunikation zwischen Angehörigen verschiedener kultureller Schichten, Modellentwicklung und informelles Lernen mit Kultur in Kooperation primär mit nicht-institutionalisierten Partnern.

Fields of Activity:

Educational co-operation

• The education department of KulturKontakt Austria acts on behalf of and with financial support from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

• It was established in 1994 with the aim to promote educational co-operation between Austria and East and South Eastern Europe and to act for the countries in transition as an interface for the exchange of information and expertise among educational experts and institutions.

• In eleven of our partner countries activities are developed and implemented by Austrian educational co-ordinators in close co-operation with local stake-holders via a network of education project offices: St. Petersburg, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia, Skopje, Tirana, Chisinau.

• KulturKontakt also hosts the secretariat of the Task Force Education and Youth within the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.

• KulturKontakt‘s educational co-operation activities reflect the balance between targeted support for national education reforms in our respective partner countries and the wider view on educational developments in Europe. In this context the promotion of regional co-operation and networks has become an important aspect of KulturKontakt’s work.

Projects (past and present):

Projects in the field of Education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC):

• I.M.PACT: Introducing Methodology into EDC Initiatives of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe (2004-2005)

• EDC Multipliers: Enhancing the quality of EDC training through increased access to EDC training (train the trainers) materials (web-site: www.intercultural.ro/edc/html/index.html) (2002-2004)

• Democratic School Development and Management for Tolerance and Confidence Building in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Promotion of democratic school development processes with particular focus on inter-ethnic understanding in ethnically mixed schools (1999-2001)

• Development of Supplementary Teaching Material for Citizenship Education in Bosnia-Hercegovina (Phase I) and its dissemination to Bosnian Schools (Phase II): Introducing intercultural learning and open teaching methods at primary and secondary schools in Bosnia-Hercegovina in order to help overcome the inter-ethnic divide (web-site: http://www.kulturkontakt.or.at/pogledi/) (1999-2002)

• Civic Education Pilot Program for Students of Vocational Schools: Introduction of civic education at Macedonian vocational education schools (1999-2003)

• Civic Education (Northwest-Russia ; Phase one: development of new approaches to civic education and their piloting; Phase II : development of a teachers and a trainers manual, dissemination) (1999-2004)

• Democratic Change in Albania - a School Based Approach. Developing closer co-operation between schools and the community through community based, democratic school development (1997–2000)

• EDC in Montenegro. Developing a framework for introducing EDC into the Montenegrin education system (2000–2002)

• Democratic School-development and Project Learning in Croatia. Promotion of democratic school development through the introduction of student centred teaching/learning methods, especially project learning (2000–2002, further dissemination: 2004)