School project "WESPE" in Tübingen

‹‹– Practical activities

   
Prize award ceremony for the Global Ethic School Competition (WESPE*)
 
 
PHOTO: Prof. Küng – Prof. Remmert – Frau Willke M.A.– Dr. Schlensog
 

  
-›› The award ceremony (PHOTO GALLERY)

 
 
From the beginning, the Global Ethic Foundation has regularly sponsored inter-school prize competitions with the aim of developing learning units or school projects on the Global Ethic theme. In this way, the Foundation has collected over the years a broad palette of lively and vivid, practicable suggestions and models for presenting its themes in the school context. And these ideas have served as inspiration for many teachers who are attempting to deal with these themes in their own teaching practice.
 

The latest competition began in autumn 2009 in Tübingen under the name „Tübinger Weltethos-Schulpreise” (WESPE). In this competition, Tübingen schools of all different types– from grammar schools to senior high schools, from special schools to technical training schools – were invited to take part. And thus there were as many prizes as there are schools in Tübingen, so that each school had the chance of winning a prize of 500 Euro.
 
The participating school classes, groups, and teachers were invited to carry out projects which would deal in a practical manner with ethically relevant problems of our society, e.g. urgent social problems or issues arising in the areas of politics, sport, biology, chemistry, medicine, further, projects which would expand awareness of other religions and cultures, or, finally, which would promote in a practical manner living together with respect for each other in the sense of the Global Ethic.
 
12 Tübingen participated in the competition with, in all, 15 projects. The ceremony at which the prizes were awarded took place on 22 October 2010, in auditorium of the Tübingen comprehensive school „Geschwister-Scholl-Schule“.
 
Prof. Hans Küng, President of the Global Ethic Foundation, held a short welcoming speech, in which he related experiences of his own time at school. Dr. Stephan Schlensog and Julia Willke introduced the individual prize-winners, who then briefly presented their projects. The prizes were then awarded by Prof. Küng and Prof. Barbara Remmert (Member of the Board of the Foundation).

 

-›› In all, 10 schools and 12 projects were singled out for prizes.

 
*) Because the abbreviation of the German term “Weltethos-Schulpreise“ yields
W-E-S-P-E (“wasp” in English), the contest was given the name WESPE and a corresponding mascot figure was developed.