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Grand opening of the painter workshop at the Regional Vocational Training Center for Construction Technologies of the Kharkiv Region
In October we are able to celebrate the official opening of the workshop for the modernized painter/restorer trade at our project site in Kharkiv (Regional Vocational Training Center for Construction Technologies of the Kharkiv Region), Ukraine together with the GIZ. The festivities were attended by high-ranking representatives and project partners from politics and business. Anatoly Babichev, the Vice-Governor...Read more →
Kulturpreis Deutsche Sprache (German Language Culture Awards): Recipients include grammar researchers, musicians and journalists
In Kassel, Germany, Grammar professor Peter Eisenberg was awarded the Jacob Grimm Award for his research on the German language. The laudatio was given by the co-publisher of the renowned Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) newspaper, Jürgen Kaube. “Peter Eisenbergs work inspires us to reflect on the German language”, said Mr. Kaube, adding that Professor Eisenberg also stood for a careful handling of the German language....Read more →
New Projects in the Republic of Moldova
In the run-up to the preparation for the new training program, we have not one, but two new projects in the Republic of Moldova to present. To the west of the capital Chişinău, in the town of Hînceşt, plasterers will be trained at the vocational school using a modern concept. The necessary workshop conversions and renovations are currently being planned. For the technical project management, we were able to recruit a new expert...Read more →
Seminar for Ukrainian Painter Trainers in Lviv, Ukraine
Practical instruction in the paint and the spray booth as well as using a graphics program were the focus of a training for trainers led by Andreas Tobias, master painter and lecturer at the Handwerkskammer Düsseldorf. The training took place at the Vocational Art College in Lviv. After defining and differentiating a customer order of their choice, the participants designed the painter’s...Read more →
Intercultural dialog projekt for stonemasons
The stonemasons from Lviv in Western Ukraine have returned home. What they have left behind is their work: Plates for the stair stringers in the newly installed linden-tree-lined boulevard of the historic terrace garden in Kirchheimboladen and steles for the signs in front of the linden trees – all manufactured manually using traditional methods. The three weeks of their stay were filled with workshop activities, an excellent cultural program and encounters with their German peers at the
