European Bildung Day 2020

Welcome to European Bildung Day 2020

On this page, you will find information and videos from our two days of celebration of bildung and the European spirit, May 8th and 9th, 2020.


Friday Afternoon – Conference 15:00 – 18:00

Due to a Zoom problem, we could not record the first 15 minutes of the conference and hence we cannot show the opening. But you can watch Lene Rachel Andersen’s two presentations about Bildung and the keynotes:

  • Christine Buhl Andersen: Art, Science and Truth
  • Jeroen van der Most: Narrative and Technology
  • Anders Wijkman: Production and Ethics
Lene Rachel Andersen: What is Bildung?
Christine Buhl Andersen: Art, Science, and Truth.
Jeroen van den Most: Narrative and Technology.
Anders Wijkma: Production and Ethics.
Lene Rachel Andersen: The Bildung Rose.

Friday Evening – Fireside Chat: Emergence from Emergency – 20:00 – 21:30

Emergence from Emergency; Renaissance 2.0

A late night conversation between:

  • Sandrine Dixson-Declève, co-president of the Club of Rome,
  • Peter Gärdenfors, professor of cognitive science, and
  • Uwe Gartenschläger, president of the European Association of the Education of Adults.

Host: Lene Rachel Andersen, the European Bildung Network & Nordic Bildung.

Chat moderator: Esli Verheggen, the European Bildung Network & De Bildung Academie.

Fireside Chat European Bildung Day 2020

Parallel Sessions Saturday May 9th

Björn Wallén: Deep Bildung
Lene Rachel Andersen: Societal Changes that Require New Bildung
Vesa-Matti Lahti: Bildung+
Torben Vind Rasmussen: The Danish Efterskoler / After-Schools
Sigrid Piasecki & Sebastian Emil Hansen: The Association of Danish Pupils
Jamila Tressel: Schools Can Be Different
Tomas Björkman: Youth Camps and Bildung
Swaan Barrett: Bildung in Business Through Art

For online entertainment between the online sessions, we had created this unforgettable Bildungtainment Center 2020.