What is Bildung Nijmegen
Bildung Nijmegen is a platform for concretely transforming ideas into new learning and personal growth environments. From a sense of lack or personal passion, topics can be explored in one’s own way together with students, teachers, artists, but also with other interested parties. When current topics are organized in meetings in such a way that they have an impact through unexpected working methods or special combined perspectives, a Bildung process is initiated among participants, audience, and organizers.
Our vision is to create a dynamic organization that centralizes Bildung and personal formation of many different types of people. We believe that development goes beyond learning facts and skills; the Bildung process is one of personal development and growth. By integrating non-formal learning and autonomously deployed art and culture into our programming, we aim to offer a wide range of learning opportunities that promote the creativity, expression, and reflection of individuals.
There are great opportunities not only in experiencing the organized but also in learning how one’s own version of a Bildung event can impact all attendees.
Examples of what we have organized in the past include theme nights on climate change, friendship, love and death, digital detox, toxic relationships, and much more. For this, see our page on experiments and successes.