Global Bildung Network

Join the planning of Nordic Bildung Week 2026

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Join us at Nordiska Folkhögskolan north of Gothenburg when we start planning Nordisk Sivistys Vika 2026: Conference begins Wednesday, March 4th at 13:00Papers & Posters from 9:00Conference ends Friday, March 6th at 13:00 We need to strengthen our Nordic democracies and civil societies and we cannot do that without bildung, more bildung, and better bildung. Read more here: https://www.globalbildung.net/nbn/kungalv-2026-planning-nordisk-sivistys-vika/ The … Read More

September 20: Bildung: Beyond Conformity

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We now have a title and a date for the next Global Meeting on Equinox: Bildung: Beyond Conformity, and the date will be September 20, 2025. You can sign up for it here: https://www.globalbildung.net/what-it-means-to-be-human-2025-september-20/, and we will soon start adding speakers!

Bildung in the five Nordic countries

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From June 2024 through January 2025, Nordic Bildung (DK), Musikkens Studieforbund (NO), and the Finnish adult education umbrella association, Kansanvalistusseura / KVS (FI), who are also the main organizers of the Nordic Bildung Network / Nordiskt Sivistys Netverkið, researched for and prepared a pan-Nordic survey about bildung. The goal is to find out how educators across the Nordic countries, from … Read More

Nordic Bildung Conference & Network

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Now there will also be a Nordic Bildung Network with meetings, conferences, and other activities about bildung in the Nordics. Its Nordic name is a mix of Scandinavian, Finnish, and Icelandic: Nordiskt Sivistys Netverkið. The first conference was just this Thursday and Friday, March 6-7, at Nordiska Folkhögskolan in Kungälv, just north of Gothenburg, Sweden. 35 people participated, and besides … Read More

Global Meeting on Equinox: 22 March

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Our next Global Meeting on Equinox will be on March 22! We used to host the Global Bildung Day — which we then renamed the Global Meeting on Equinox — on March 21 and September 21, but in September 2024 our online event had more participants than ever before and we figured that it might be because it was a … Read More

European Bildung Days 2025 May 8-10

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Save the dates! And look forward to a bildung blast in Norway with colleagues from all over Europe! We had some fantastic days at the European Bildung Day in Rotterdam, and though we initially announced that European Bildung Days 2025 would be in Athens, for practical reasons, we decided to have the event in Hamar in Norway: https://www.globalbildung.net/ebd2025/ The theme … Read More

New name for Global Bildung Day

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Global Bildung Day has a new name: The Global Meeting on Equinox: What it Means to Be Human. We had great success with the title What it Means to Be Human on Global Bildung Day, March 21, 2024, which was named after the book What it Means to Be Human. We also decided right away that What it means to … Read More