From Our Journey

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!

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

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

You can now watch all the videos from our event in September here: https://www.globalbildung.net/what-it-means-to-be-human-2024-september-21/ Enjoy!

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

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

Europe needs an agenda for bildung, and at the European Bildung Day 2024 in Rotterdam we launched the European Bildung Manifesto! We need more bildung around the globe, and that is why we created the Global Bildung Manifesto back in 2021. But there are continental differences, also regarding bildung. So, we need a bildung agenda that matches the continental challenges, … Read More