TECE – Transatlantic Exchange of Civic Educators

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A Transatlantic
Dialogue of Civic
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Connecting US-American and German civic learning professionals

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TECE Fellows Meet in the U.S.A.

About TECE

Investing in comprehensive civic learning is critical for the future health of our democracies as both Germany and the United States face significant challenges: structural racism, right-wing populism, polarization and mistrust of democratic institutions and the media, not to mention a strained transatlantic relationship, all exacerbated further by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Transatlantic Exchange of Civic Educators (TECE) will bring together German and U.S.-American extracurricular civic learning professionals to unlock opportunities for mutual learning and reintroduce a transatlantic dimension to the field.

Recent Blog Posts

Online seminar takes a look at civic education / politische Bildung from German and American perspective

On May 19, 2022, the online symposium “Transatlantic Challenges, Different Approaches? Civic Education from a German and American Perspective” took place. Participants and speakers from Germany and the USA joined the event. The Arbeitskreis deutscher Bildungsstätten e. V. (AdB) planned, organized and implemented this conference in cooperation with the Berlin State Agency for Civic Education.

TECE Fellows meet in the U.S.A.

In early May 2022, 22 fellows of the project the Transatlantic Exchange of Civic Educators (TECE) came together for a week of professional development, collaboration, inspiration and exchange in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, DC, USA. Fellows were hosted by the TECE project partner in the USA, the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University. After having met as a group for more than eight online sessions since July 2021 and in-person in Weimar and Berlin, Germany in November 2021, the group was able to deepen their work together during this second in-person encounter.