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Education is not only an important key to enabling prosperity, it also helps to transcend borders and promote peace. On KfW Stories, you can learn about which projects are currently underway.

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entrance of Tumo

The TUMO Center in Berlin

A state-of-the-art building where children and young people learn digital skills free of charge: that is the TUMO Learning Centre in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

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Student Siri Eichhorn is being homeschooled during Corona Lockdown in Ulm

Everything on screen

Schools have had to switch to digital lessons during the coronavirus pandemic. This process has many pitfalls. In the smart cities of Ulm and Jena, however, they are making good progress.

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Bastian Krautwald, founder/CEO of the company deineStudienfinanzierung in the telephone booth

"We want to enable stress-free studying"

In a Berlin backyard, a new start-up is using an online platform to improve the financial prospects of students in Germany. A cooperation with KfW, the first of its kind, is making it much easier to get a student loan.

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Germany learns from Armenia

The TUMO Centre for Creative Technologies in Armenia is an educational centre, specialised on technology and design, where teenagers can learn free of charge. TUMO’s managing directors Marie-Lou and Pegor Papazian talk about their project and its expansion to Berlin.

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Ackerdemia is growing vegetables together with school children

Crops in the schoolyard

Ackerdemia is bringing the veggie patch into the school and convinced the jury of the KfW Entrepreneurs' Award 2018. The project won the Social Entrepreneurship special prize 2018.

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Boy with tablet

Tablets for talent development

In Malawi there are school classes with up to 250 pupils. Targeted support of individual students is hardly possible. A pilot project aims to improve the educational situation in Malawi with the help of tablet computers.

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Syrian refugee at the UNICEF supported Temporary Education Centre Yenice, Sanhurfa

School in exile

Refugee teachers are teaching refugee children as Syrians in Turkey help themselves. Voluntary teachers are improvising schools. On behalf of the German Federal Government, KfW is supporting the UN's Children's Fund UNICEF in providing education in refugee camps.

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School Makani centrum

Playing and learning in a refugee camp

Most of the 80,000 inhabitants of the Zaatari refugee camp are children. Alongside with 29 schools, there are 13 Makani centres, in which children and teenagers can spend the afternoon. KfW also supports the Makanis.

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School in Mali for nomadic people

Take-away schools

Nomadic children in Mali are unable to attend regular lessons because their families change location up to three times a year. The solution? Mobile schools.

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Skoove keyboard

The virtual piano teacher

Plenty of people are eager to learn how to play the piano. However, a lack of time and money means that only very few of them are able to realise their dream. This led to two developers from Berlin spotting a gap in the market.Their online platform Skoove offers interactive piano lessons.

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Philippine cook in training

Culinary ambassadors

Two chefs from North Rhine-Westphalia travelled to Manila to teach German cuisine to Filipino apprentices. What they didn’t expect: they also learned a lot from the experience. We report from a country that is rich in young people, but poor in training opportunities.

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