On Friday, January 17, 2014, the wannseeFORUM signed its first trilateral cooperation agreement with the Goethe-Institut Berlin and the Nelson Mandela School during the International Project Workshop . The agreement seals the success of the now four-year collaboration between the three partners in organizing and conducting the International Project Workshop.
The agreement was signed by Nikky Keilholz-Rühle for the Goethe-Institut Berlin, Brigitte Kather for the Nelson Mandela School, and Bettina Heinrich for the wannseeFORUM Foundation. The signing took place during the public presentation of the artistic results from the 2014 workshop. With a term until 2016, the contract includes an automatic three-year extension, thus ensuring the continuation of the project.
The International Project Workshop – an artistic language learning format
Within the International Project Workshop, young people from all over the world and Berlin students develop projects on a socio-political topic in artistic workshops. The young guests from abroad participate in a German course offered by the Goethe-Institut at the wannseeFORUM for three weeks and meet the participants from Berlin in the second week.
The concept combines artistic work with intensive language support, as art projects require a great deal of communication and good collaboration among the participants. In addition, each group meets once a day, as needed, for a language workshop with a teacher from the Goethe-Institut. Here, they rehearse theater texts, clarify vocabulary, or edit articles.
The International Project Workshop took place this year from January 12th to 18th, 2014, and brought together 62 young people from four continents at the wannseeFORUM.