The vhs Oberland celebrated its founding in the Waitzinger Keller with a delay caused by the corona virus.
The decision to form the association was praised as future-oriented and crisis-proof.
It was a long road to founding.
Mayors, members of the association and the supervisory board, speakers and guests of honor came to celebrate.
Artist and musician Erich Kogler moderated the evening with cabaret and support from the band Mountainlakevista.
"All citizens in the district of Miesbach benefit from the vhs Oberland," said Holzkirchen's mayor Christoph Schmid, who is also the chairman of the supervisory board.
He compared the merger, which almost all municipalities have decided on in order to continue to be eligible for funding, to be effective and powerful, and to merge into a larger whole with the building of a ship.
Its christening with the founding ceremony took place after the ship vhs Oberland had already been launched and the vhs managers Thomas Mandl and Veronika Weese and their team had proved that the processes on the high seas work.
In the direction of the two adult education centers that have not joined, he signaled: “The places are reserved.
We can still record." He wished a lot of tailwind and,
that the management team remains curious about new shores and stays the course.
"Together for more education" was the slogan of Miesbach's mayor Gerhard Braunmiller.
He was particularly impressed by the tailor-made educational offer of the vhs Oberland: "The curriculum is tailored to the needs of the citizens, almost tailor-made." The mayors had declared adult education a top priority.
The vhs Oberland with its four centers is the fourth largest vhs in Bavaria and even a pioneer with its online course offering.
"This puts the educational district of Miesbach in a top position."
"The curriculum is tailored to the needs of the citizens, almost tailor-made." The mayors have declared adult education a top priority.
The vhs Oberland with its four centers is the fourth largest vhs in Bavaria and even a pioneer with its online course offering.
"This puts the educational district of Miesbach in a top position."
"The curriculum is tailored to the needs of the citizens, almost tailor-made." The mayors have declared adult education a top priority.
The vhs Oberland with its four centers is the fourth largest vhs in Bavaria and even a pioneer with its online course offering.
"This puts the educational district of Miesbach in a top position."
The founding was a tour de force, he said, with a view to a lot of persuasion as well as the complete change in the educational landscape caused by Corona: "But the new structure is the right one for the demands of the time." Martin Egger, Management Director of the Munich Adult Education Center, also congratulated to the good "decision for the future of education and society" and to the professional offer.
The vhs is a place where upheavals, changes and crises are accompanied.
And he reminded that adult education is a public constitutional mandate.
In a discussion group with Kornelius Schlehlein from the vhs Gunzenhausen, who accompanied the process as a structural consultant, Weese and Mandl reviewed the years since the decision was made in 2018 in the town hall of Holzkirchen.
They praised the structural support program,
In his humorous speech, the former head of the Munich Adult Education Center, Professor Klaus Meisel, addressed the question of how much vhs the Oberland needs?
A lot, because the vhs is a state goal as part of the municipal welfare in Bavaria.
Education is needed for the megatrends of our time – globalization and digitization.
The vhs is also important in the areas of cultural education, democratic development, shortage of skilled workers, general education, immigration and democratization.
"We need more vhs if we want to keep society together and help shape it," Meisel demanded.
The social scientist Anja Wagner from the educational consulting agency Frolleinflow, who came from Berlin, explained how urgent this demand is. More digital competence is needed, she said.
Willingness to change, willingness to learn and willingness to innovate must be encouraged.
Open learning spaces are a prerequisite for this, such as the Fablab Oberland.
This lecture alone, followed by the panel discussion, could have filled an evening, so that we only got up very late to celebrate together.