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Kind of good practice
Educational Strategy City of Graz
Target group
Stakeholder City of Graz
Description
The city of Graz is working intensively to optimise future
opportunities for young people. To meet the new challenges successfully, the Department for Education
and Integration has worked together with top-class external experts and developed the first educational
strategy of the City of Graz 2013- 2020. 8 different groups have worked on the strategy with the title
„Bildung findet Stadt“.
Following areas were included in the working groups:
• Elementary education.
• Transition points 1 and 2 (Kindergarten – elementary school –secondary schools).
• Inclusion.
• Elementary school and lower secondary school.
• Transition point 3 (school and the world of work).
• Transition point 4 (upper-level secondary schools).
• Support systems.
• Compulsory education for all and acquisition of educational qualifications and adult education.
In addition as a transversal issue, there was a special focus on the promotion of potentials. The aim is to
establish the City of Graz as a City of Education and to show improvements and to implement new models
as well as pilot projects. It turned out that through opening the discourse between the invited experts
the flow of information about existing educational activities was promoted strongly. It also fostered
networking between different stakeholders. This improves the access to education and further training
for all citizens of Graz.
Good Practice
| Bildung findet Stadt
Aims
• To develop an educational
strategy for Graz.
• To optimise future opportunities
for young people.
• To meet the new challenges
successfully.
Do´s
• Involve experts of different areas, not
only from the field of education - look
beyond the scope of theworld of schools.
• Regular meetings of working groups.
• Professional moderation of the process.
Don´ts
• Visions without concrete fields of action.
• Process without statements.
• Unrealistic objectives – always keep
resources and the legal framework in
mind.
Further Information
City of Graz | Department for Education and Integration |
| Graz, Austria
