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The Volkshochschule (VHS) Bremerhaven is the municipal adult education center of the Seestadt Bremerhaven and offers daily educational opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds at the Friedrich-Schiller-Haus. It pursues the goal of promoting lifelong learning and functioning as a cultural and social meeting point for the city. Essential values of the VHS are tolerance, participation and respect, which are lived in learning together and from each other. The course offer is diverse and includes, in addition to language courses, cultural and social topics, also career-oriented qualifications as well as leisure and health courses. An example are courses for the "Amtlichen Sportbootführerschein", which enable practical and theoretical training according to official guidelines.
The VHS Bremerhaven focuses on customer-oriented, continuous quality development and sustainably modernizes its learning environment in order to meet in particular the challenges of digitization and the consequences of the Corona pandemic. The VHS places a special emphasis on environmental education and digital participation in order to actively shape social change. The aim is to strengthen educational chains and to accompany transitions from the school basic education level through professional qualifications to lifelong learning.
Sustainability is also implemented through structural modernizations on campus and conceptual orientations that integrate environmental and digital topics. The VHS Bremerhaven sees itself as an integrative educational platform that promotes diversity and appeals to all people regardless of social and cultural backgrounds. The offers support social integration, intercultural exchange and promote democratic education, whereby the dialogue between different cultures is understood as enriching.
Overall, the VHS Bremerhaven shapes the social interaction in the city through a wide range of further education opportunities, sustainable modernization and a strong commitment to social participation, environmental awareness and digitization. In this way, it makes a significant contribution to personal development, social cohesion and active participation in shaping the urban society [1][2][4].
