The Pentecost Academy for Youth Participation was a nationwide seminar for people aged 16 to 30 until 2021. Every year on the Pentecost weekend, up to 80 civil society actors, politically engaged individuals, and curious minds from all over Germany met at the wannseeFORUM to exchange ideas, learn new methods, and gather inspiration for their own projects.
This Pentecost weekend, our youth advisory board, founded in 2021, to the Pentecost Lab .
the Pentecost Academy blog – pfingstakademie.de . From the engaging posts by dedicated blog editors and the respective information pages, we have generated PDF documents – a treasure trove for you to explore: Enjoy!
Our heartfelt thanks go to everyone involved in the pfingstkademie.de blog, especially to the editors-in-chief and editorial teams who have been involved since the blog's launch on WordPress in 2008!
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- PDF archive on wannsee-forum.ocloud.de
- Photos on Flickr
- Videos on Vimeo
- Images, films, articles about previous Pentecostal academies and youth participation
- Each entry includes the year, title, a sample post from the blog pfingstakademie.de, and a PDF file containing blog posts from that year
- Cover photo on this page: Pentecost Academy 2018, (c) Andi Weiland
a few insights into the history and tradition from which new things grow:
- History: How it all began: Pentecost Academy Youth Participation in the Wannsee Forum By Michael S. Rauscher, Lecturer in Political Education 2000 to 2010
Since its founding in 1951, the wannseeFORUM has made it its mission to awaken and maintain young people's interest in civic engagement. It is part of our political conviction that a vibrant democracy needs engaged citizens.
The activities undertaken in the context of the European Commission's White Paper on "Youth Policy in Europe" were a milestone on the way to a broad understanding of democratic participation for young people.
As organizers of the 1st German Youth Conference, we established contact with numerous socially engaged young people throughout Germany. It became clear that an exchange across municipal and state borders was fruitful and desired by the young participants. Subsequently, the idea of a regular "Pentecost Academy for Youth Participation" was successfully implemented at the national level.
Since 2000, we have successfully organized, among other things, the following events:
- 1st German Youth Conference in June 2000 at the wannseeFORUM
- Pentecost meeting on youth participation: “Concretization and networking of youth participation projects and initiatives” in June 2001 at the wannseeFORUM
- Pentecost academies on youth participation from 2002 to 2020
- Pentecost Academy Youth Participation 2020:
"Despite all crises": pdf
A hero in a white coat? An interview with a doctor
Daily direct contact with the people hardest hit by the coronavirus infection; 80-hour work weeks with exhausting protective measures to avoid infection; people applauding from their balconies in gratitude – what does the coronavirus pandemic do to a doctor working in intensive care?
- Pentecost Academy Youth Participation 2019:
“The Wall Must Go! – On Old and New Borders”: pdf
- Pentecost Academy Youth Participation 2018
“100 Years of Women’s Suffrage – Feminism Then, Now and Tomorrow”: PDF
- Pentecost Academy Youth Participation 2017
“We are the Alternatives – Political Orientation in Times of Crisis”: pdf
- Pentecost Academy Youth Participation 2016
“Identity(ies) – Who we are and who we want to become?: pdf
- Pentecost Academy Youth Participation 2015
“How do we want to live? – Visions of the future, utopias, alternatives”: pdf
Barcamp Day 2015
And that was the Barcamp day 2015 at the Pentecost Academy for Youth Participation, e.g. with a music session
Presentation of the music session at Barcamp Day 2015 (Presentation)
More session topics from 2015: "Your Vision Now", "Polyandry", "Music", "The Physics of the Future", "T-Shirt Printing", "Hip Hop", "Social Networks", "PowerPoint Karaoke", "#railstrike, #hatehaters", "Game", "Improvisational Theatre", "Feedback Visualization", "Ultimate Frisbee", etc.
And during two sessions, the networking meeting of the nationwide SV-Bildungswerk (cooperation partner of the Pentecost Academy) took place, because the Pentecost Academy also stands for networking!
Session plan 2015
- Pentecost Academy Youth Participation 2014
“Back to Work!?” – Youth between Self-Realization and Performance Pressure”: pdf
- Pentecost Academy Youth Participation 2013
“City.Country.Future Dreams – Participation in Urban and Rural Development
– Between Gentrification and Outmigration”: pdf
- Pentecost Academy Youth Participation 2012:
“Participation in Times of the Energy Transition”: pdf
- Pentecost Academy Youth Participation 2011:
“Participation: Pleasure or Frustration”: pdf
- Pentecost Academy Youth Participation 2010:
“Participation in the iGeneration”: pdf
- Pentecost Academy Youth Participation 2009:
“Participation in a Recession”: pdf
- Pentecost Academy Youth Participation 2008:
“Participation between protest and adaptation”: PDF
- Pentecost Academy Youth Participation 2007
“Participation in Germany and Europe”
- Pentecost Academy Youth Participation 2006
“Political Participation for the Democracy of Tomorrow”
- Pentecost Academy Youth Participation 2005
“On the way to broad and sustainable participation”
The PDF files in our Nextcloud archive are organized by year and by subject area and activities from 2008 to 2012: wannsee-forum.ocloud.de
Photos and videos can still be viewed on vimeo.com and flickr.com.
Our photo collection on Flickr begins with the Pentecost Academy 2012.
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