Annual report-2005 - Karl Kübel Stiftung

Karl Kuebel Stiftung fuer Kind und Familie, www.kkstiftung.de
Osterberg Institute
Am Hang, 23306 Niederkleveez
www.osterberginstitut.de
In the year 2005 the Osterberg-Institute exists for 10 years now. Approximately 300 visitors
attended the celebration of the jubilee from the 11 th to the 13 th of February, among them
representatives of educational politics from the federation and the states. The institute
consolidated its position as a label for further training and education in Northern Germany.
Cooperations with other educational institutions have been deepened and new ones initiated, for
example with the “Haus am Schueberg” in Hamburg.
The academy for couples with 87 participants has been the “bestseller” among the conferences of
the jubilee. Likewise the conference on transaction analysis has attracted 84 participants. This
conference had inaugurated the cycle of jubilee-conferences already in November. The new further
training course “Mediation” has had a good start with 15 participants in August.
19 children and 16 adults undertook different working tasks at the working week – the second one
after 2003 - of the development association of the Osterberg Institute in March. As a highlight of
this successful project the aid organisation “Aktion Mensch” has awarded a grant in the amount of
5.000 Euro for the working week for a sustainable and inventive children and youth project.
Success with “Train the Trainer”
The program for qualification “Train the Trainer” with several days duration which was initiated in
2004, a cooperation with the Institute for Further Training at the Faculty of Economics and Social
Sciences, Hamburg, has apparently found a niche in the landscape of education in Northern
Germany. The second round started with 24 participants. The third edition for 2006 has been
prepared.
Art and culture
Five in holiday mood (from the
left):
The District Administrator of
Ploen Dr. Gebel, member of the
Executive Board of Karl Kuebel
Stiftung Gabriele U. Herrmann,
Director of the Osterberg-
Institute Manfred Guehrs,
Deputy Director of the institute
Katarina Weiher and speaker at
the jubilee Joerg Matzen
In April the artist Roger Rigorth has installed two intriguing and very attractive pieces of art on the
compound of the institute: “Boot mit Rad” (boat with wheel) and “Steinkreis” (stone circle). These
so-called Land-Art-Objects are items of loan from “Haus am Schueberg”. This churchly educational
institution, located at the outskirts of Hamburg, is going to offer as a new cooperation partner 5
seminars of the Osterberg-Institute in 2006 in their facilities.
14.023 participant days could be registered at the Osterberg-Institute in 2005. 337 courses
had been offered and for them 83 course instructors were engaged.
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