Service point Education
The service point is a part of the Landratsamt Görlitz. It is carried on by employees of the Administrative District and the PONTES-Agencyr t is situated in the rooms of the International Meeting Centre in St. Marienthal. SIt is the relay between the stuff unit in the district administration and the participants on the spot. The service point works also on following tasks:
Workshop “Educational consultancy”
The aim of this workshop is to create a neutral, in the education sector and across-the-institution educational consultancy combining and coordinating the existing advisory services in certain sectors. Therefore consultants are to be qualified and common quality standards have to be developed.
The energy industry was and is one of the most important factors of the regional economy in the Administrative District Görlitz and of the Euroregion Neisse-Nisa-Nysa. Owing to the brown coal power station and the opencast mining and the “Energy University” in Zittau energy is a brace that binds citizens, companies and administrations, associations and communities in the Administrative District Görlitz. Therefore the aim of this workshop is to anchor and develop the subject “Energy” in the educational structures and educational offers on the spot.
Contact person: Dr. Korinna Thiem
Workshop “Euroregional competence/ language of a neighbouring country”
The Administrative District Görlitz offers with its direct borders to the neighbouring countries Poland and Czech Republic and with the historically grown cooperation of four peoples including the Sorbs with four different languages and cultures a unique “place for learning”. The aim of this workshop is to anchor continuously these regional characteristic in the educational structures and educational offers on the spot. Further, to develop the Administrative District into multilingual town and therefore to open up perspectives for the future for people living here. With regard to the educational transitions the main focus lies on testing the measures to ensure the consistency of acquisition of languages of the neighbouring countries and to ensure the involvement of acquired competences.
Education marketing
Comprehensive competences and successfully tested instruments of the PONTES-Agency, like the Euroregional Learning festivals, educational days of action, the euroregional education portal www.bildungsmarkt-neisse.de are especially used and developed. The basic principle is particularly the integration of all target groups using various and target group specific arrangements and methods, together with the implementation of multilingualism (German-Polish-Sorbian-Czech).
