Cultural Education and Discourse

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Cultural Education and Discourse play a crucial role in the understanding and self-reflection of societies. The Goethe-Institut supports these processes, makes an active contribution to them and offers platforms and meeting places for artists, academics and journalists. It cooperates with partners and experts worldwide, strengthens innovative developments and tests new event formats.
 
The Goethe-Institut initiates and supports worldwide educational programmes for the further training of cultural professionals in the fields of cultural management and entrepreneurship, advises cultural institutions and networks participating stakeholders. It engages in the fields of cultural and digital education and focuses on topics being debated in the public, the media and science.

This includes dealing with topics such as post-colonialism, migration and displacement, gamification and cultures of remembrance. The special focus is on the three main topics “How does the new come into the world?” “Cultures of equality” and “Ecology and sustainability.”

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Zeitgeister

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Which topics and discourses are we dealing with worldwide? The online magazine Zeitgeister invites experts, artists and authors to a joint exchange. It offers local and global perspectives - on postcolonialism, sustainability, post-digital cultures, feminism and current affairs.

International Relief Fund, Grafic: © Katja Römer International Relief Fund, Grafic: © Katja Römer

International Relief Fund 2021

In 2020, the Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut initiated the International Relief Fund for Organisations in Culture and Education in response to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on cultural organisations abroad. The consortium partners of the International Relief Fund have agreed to continue the funding in 2021.