Georg Schwedt
*1979 in Siegen
M.A. European Studies
CIVIC GmbH - Institute for International Education
Standort: Düsseldorf
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- Studies of social economy with an emphasis on law at the Hamburg University for Economy and Politics and at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi/Finland
- European Studies at the University of Hamburg and at the University of Economics of Prague
Since 2007 he has been working as a lecturer in the field of sociopolitical education as well as in the area of the development of methods for education.
From 2007 until 2009 he worked as a lecturer at the Federal Office for civilian service at schools for civilian service in Sondershausen and Ith. Besides, he instructed members of staff of the Federal Office for civilian service on methods referring to the organisation of seminars and intercultural competences.
From 2009 until 2010, and at last in 2012, he worked as referee at the German Protestant Kirchentag in Fulda. He was responsible for the preparation of the sociopolitical programme of the Second Ecumenical Kirchentag in Munich 2010 and of the 34th German Protestant Kirchentag in Hamburg in 2013.
From 2010 until 2011 he was Deputy Head in the management office of the Federal Aid Programme "Support tolerance - strengthen competence" of the Federal Ministry for families, seniors, women and youth (BMFSJ) and was in charge of its implementation.
From 2013 to 2018 he was a visitor's attendant in the "House of history" in Bonn, from 2014 to 2020 he has been working as visitor's attendant also in the public section of Deutscher Bundestag (German Federal Parliament) and from 2105 to 2020 also in the Memorial to Victims of the Nazi Regime in Düsseldorf. From 2015 to 2020 he has also been working as lecturer of Civic Education at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
Since 2020 he as well has been working as visitor’s attendant in the federal Parliament of North Rhine Westphalia.
Mr. Schwedt has been doing voluntary work for the Youth of the Protestant Church from 1999 to 2014, is involved in assisting voluntarily international guests during the German Protestant Kirchentag since 2010 and since 2014 also at Bahnhofsmission (station mission) Düsseldorf.
Key activities:
- Legislation of the European Union
- Policy of enlargement and integration of the European Union
- Contemporary German history
- Development of participative methods, e.g. simulation games
- Strengthening of the competences of minorities in Europe
- Advanced training and further education of executive managers as a module of human resources development