We invite your organization
How do you reduce dropout rates in the workplace? How do you get students motivated to work on the social challenges of the 21st century? What does citizenship mean in a super-diverse society?
Schedule a personal, no-obligation introduction. Then we will help you identify your ideas on education, learning & development and share our methods to realize them.
The Bildung Network means:
New Talent: build relationships with future employees, trainers and coaches
Visibility: join us in communicating to our talent pool, business network and PR
Positioning: strengthen your profile on community engagement and people development
Business network: exchange best practices, build coalitions, and leverage related opportunities
These organizations are already building
Deepening kickoff sessions
We offer in-depth start-up sessions tailored to the needs of your organization. Together with your team, explore current issues and discover how contemporary Bildung can be given a place within your organization.
During these sessions you will gain inspiration for, for example, new working methods, involving your target group, revising existing programs and creating space for personal-professional development.
Access to Bildung events
You gain access to inspiring Bildung events at unique locations where we come together with The Bildung Network. Current issues related to education, learning, and development take center stage. Think of topics like well-being at work, purpose, ethical dilemmas, and strategy in transformative times.
We bring together leaders from sustainable businesses, representatives from semi-public organizations, artists, and scientists to work on personal-professional development and societal challenges from a creative perspective.
Customized collaboration
Depending on your needs and current situation, we explore how we can work together. Think of matching with talents, specific training or the development of (educational) programs.
Inspiration from the online living manifesto
We translate all ideas about innovative education, personal-professional development and sustainable collaboration into building blocks for our programs and development programs.
We collect these building blocks and matching creative work forms in our living manifesto, an online document that grows with us over the next few years. After scheduling your introduction, you can download the manifesto and you will receive a current update from us quarterly.
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We invite your organization
Great that you want to help build the 21st century university with your organization! Discover what the ideal of education, learning & development could look like within your organization.
- In-depth start-up sessions: explore current organizational issues with your team
- Bildung events: meet at special locations based on themes around education, learning & development
- Customized collaboration: we explore how we can work together based on your organizational needs
- Inspiration from our online manifesto: new ideas and forms of work around personal-professional development
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Bildung?
Bildung is actively, consciously, and ethically relating to your inner self, others, and the world. It represents the ideal that people develop themselves as broadly and fully as possible and take on social responsibility.
We have been inspired by the ideas of classic bildungsdenkers such as Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 - 1835) and Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), but also by contemporary thinkers such as Gert Biesta, Martha Nussbaum and Roman Krznaric.
Readmore about Bildung and our genesis.
What is the university of the 21st century?
In our ideal world, we bring as many people as possible into contact with themselves and connect them with others. As a collective, they tackle personal and societal challenges.
That's why we are building the university of the 21st century: representing the ideal of learning, development, and education. It's an open invitation to collaborate in the coming years in creating more opportunities for everyone to develop themselves as fully as possible.
The university of the 21st century is not an existing institution and has no fixed location. It represents an ideal that we are continuously building on with The Bildung Network. Read more about our building blocks here.
What does The Bildung Network mean for my organization?
The Bildung Network means for your organization, among other things:
- New talent: build relationships with future employees, trainers or coaches
- Visibility: be visible within our talent pool and business network
- Positioning: strengthen your positioning in terms of social engagement and personal development.
- Business network: exchange best practices, build coalitions, and leverage related opportunities
Can my organization attend all Bildung events?
Depending on the type of collaboration, we reserve a number of spots by invitation for your organization.
What is The Bildung Network?
The Bildung Network is a collective of individuals and organizations driven to connect with themselves and others while taking on social responsibility. We operate in education, science, the arts, the public sector, and sustainable business. Together, we are building the university of the 21st century: representing the ideal of education, learning & development.
We collect innovative ideas about education, personal-professional development and sustainable cooperation into building blocks. With these, together with The Bildung Network, we create education and development programs that fit the challenges of this century.
How can my organization help build the university of the 21st century?
Your organization views personal and professional development as crucial, and you want to position yourself accordingly. We share innovative ideas and best practices on how to achieve this.
- In-depth start-up sessions: depending on your input, you and your team explore current organizational issues
- Access to Bildung events: We gather with organizations from The Bildung Network at inspiring locations based on themes related to education, learning, and development.
- Customized collaboration: based on your organization's needs and situation, we explore customized ways to work together
- Inspiration from our living manifesto: discover innovative ideas and matching creative work forms around personal-professional development from our online living manifesto
Does scheduling a personal introduction cost money?
No, in a personal introduction we first explore together which opportunity or which issue is urgent within your organization. You only pay for a possible collaboration that follows from this, for example an in-depth start-up session or a customized collaboration.
What is The Bildung Academy?
De Bildung Academie develops programs and offers training, coaching and consulting around personal-professional development and social responsibility.
In our ideal world, we bring as many people as possible into contact with themselves and connect them with others. As a collective, they tackle personal and societal challenges.
That is why we are building the university of the 21st century. We do this together with The Bildung Network: a community consisting of new generations of students and (young) professionals, teachers, artists, scientists and organizations within the public sector, education and sustainable business.