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Cooperation Agreement signed in Poti, Georgia
Shortly before the Christmas break, Peter Möller, Managing Director of the Eberhard Schöck Foundation, signed a cooperation agreement with Nino Bakuradze, Director of Phazisi College in Poti, Georgia. The agreement covers a project to modernize carpentry training. The initial plan is to construct a new workshop building. The workshop will be set up and the instructors will be trained by the start of training in September 2020. In Georgia, like in many other places, the demand for well-trained specialists is extremely high. We are pleased to have found a new project partner here in Georgia with whom we can pursue the common goal of providing young people with quality technical training in the trades.
45 years of success: The Ural College of Technology and Entrepreneurship celebrates a key anniversary
Since 1998, the Ural College of Technology and Entrepreneurship in Ekaterinburg has carried out projects to modernize individual trades with the support of the Sverdlovsk regional government, the Ministry of Education and Training and the Eberhard Schöck Foundation. 21 years of joint project work connect us with the Yekaterinburg College of Technology and Entrepreneurship. It is currently celebrating its 45th anniversary. Congratulations!
Anniversary video highlighting our activities at the college (in Russian).
Joint Workshop for Painters and Carpenters in Vinnytsia, Ukraine
Christoph Junghans and his son David offered a one-week seminar on the subject of “Spray painting and historical surfaces” to the instructors of both trades at the Vocational College of Art and Technology No. 5 in Vinnytsia. The furniture parts produced by the carpenters in September were lacquered and sample boards were created in different materials and techniques. The participants practiced using the cup gun for spray painting and made their own paints and glazes. The seminar covered the entire field of craft training today: from traditional techniques and materials to the most modern materials, tools and equipment.
The exchange of experiences between painters and carpenters and the joint solutions to problems broadened the participants’ horizons beyond their own trade. This was a very positive experience for everyone.
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 of the Kharkiv region, and the German Vice-Consul Peter Schmahl from the General Consulate in Donetsk with headquarters in Dnipro congratulated the project team on the successful workshop renovation and emphasized the importance of promoting training in the construction trades for the city of Kharkiv, especially for young people. Special thanks also went to the project sponsors Knauf, Caparol, Storch and Dinova, whose Ukrainian representatives were very pleased with the results of the modernization efforts. The conversion of the workshops and their equipment with materials and tools were led by master painter Andreas Tobias, who works on our behalf. He was also responsible for modernizing the content of the painter profession as well as training the instructors and teachers at the Kharkiv Vocational Training Center.
Foto: Мария Зайцева
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. The Initiative Award was presented to the band Tonbandgerät for their ability to convey the joy of the German language to young people in Germany and abroad with their music and their German lyrics. Eberhard Schöck’s granddaughter Amelie Arndt delivered the laudatio. The Institutions Award went to the German-language newspaper Kaukasische Post. As the only German-language newspaper in the Caucasus region, it serves as an “asset for German foreign relations”, explained jury representative Helmut Glück. Holger Klatte, CEO of the Verein Deutsche Sprache (VDS), presented the laudatio.
