The OFZ offers a democracy camp for young people and teachers to make the democratic foundations of our society tangible, organisable and perceptible for pupils.

The democracy camp offers interactive and age-appropriate workshops in which everyone can actively participate - be it in group work, discussions or creative projects. Teachers receive valuable impulses to strengthen democracy education in the classroom and pupils discover how they can contribute their voice and help shape their environment. Everyone takes home concrete opportunities for action to bring democracy to life - at school, among friends and in society.

In five communicative and co-operative workshops on topics related to democracy education, pupils and teachers work together to explore the importance of selected areas of democracy.

The pupils and teachers take part in the first round of workshops together and thus gain insights into the perspective of the other group. For the pupils, the focus is on the self-effective shaping of democratic processes, whereby the focus is on working together on social and political issues. In the second round of workshops, we offer teachers a teachers' café. Here you will receive further suggestions for implementation in everyday school life and time for collegial exchange, also against the background of the morning's impressions.

Further information on the event and registration can be found here.

Conflicts are part of everyday educational life. Poorly resolved or smouldering conflicts often not only affect individual pupils, but also the entire class and working atmosphere. Mediation is a modern and fair method of conflict resolution. Mediators support disputants as neutral moderators to clarify their dispute through dialogue and find amicable solutions. The rest of the training course is about getting to know the conflict mediator programme and other ways of systematically promoting a culture of conflict in schools. In particular, the training of student mediators/arbitrators, the gradual implementation of mediation as well as social skills training and the class council are covered.

The training comprises 5 blocks of 2 days each and starts in February 2026. The course fee is 1520 euros. Oldenburg schools are eligible for funding from the City of Oldenburg's Prevention Council.

Still have questions? An online information event will take place on 13 January 2026.

You can find more information about the course here.

In this learning-intensive module series, we take a look at central aspects of language education in schools on each of the six days of the event.

Formal provisions, language education methods, diversity-conscious education, diagnostic skills, multilingual schools - all of this will be developed in line with the participants' school practice.

This series of face-to-face modules includes self-study components on the BISS blended learning platform for teachers. BiSS-Transfer is a joint initiative of the federal and state governments for the transfer of language education, reading and writing promotion in schools and daycare centres.

Further information on the training programme can be found here.

For teachers, educators and educational professionals

The office of the Didactic Centre informs teachers, educators and educational staff 3 to 5 times a year about specialist days, conferences, lecture series and digital offers of the University of Oldenburg with school relevance.

Further information and registration