EVZ Academy online

The EVZ Academy online platform is a digital service provided by the EVZ Academy, that develops contemporary formats for the Foundation's work. Using the digital platform, the EVZ Foundation facilitates joint and individual learning and networking.

The digital learning world of the EVZ Foundation

The EVZ Foundation stands for innovative educational approaches and projects, contacts with people who you want to listen to and with organizations that are committed to the culture of remembrance and human rights. The Foundation's new online platform combines this added value.

The EVZ Foundation promotes, networks and operates as a European player in its subject areas. And what we learn in the process, we pass on: Expertise, practical guidance for educational and project work, for experts and interested parties. Our digital platform EVZ Academy online offers all of this for joint learning and networking. It is an important and up-to-date complement to the Foundation's funding activities.

In this way, the digital learning world connects to the strategic goals of the EVZ Foundation’s Agenda for the Future and incorporates the findings of the MEMO Remembrance Monitor constructively into its educational approaches. Transnational and location-independent educational spaces are created which, in remembrance of National Socialist injustice, develop new forms for historical learning in the present and sustainable societies.

The EVZ Academy online was launched in May 2023. A test phase with selected pilot formats is currently underway. Digital formats will be made available to the public from 2025.

Who is the learning platform designed for?

Our learning platform is suitable for anyone working in the EVZ Foundation's subjects. The main topics of the platform are in particular:

Forced labor under National Socialism
Survivors of National Socialist persecution
Antisemitism
Antigypsyism
Culture(s) of remembrance

Ongoing interactive online offerings will be developed on these topics, in addition to the funding activities of the EVZ Foundation.

The online and blended learning offerings are also aimed at a diverse range of target groups: The interactive offers impart skills for action; they induce people from different contexts, including professionals, to stand up for democratic values on their own.

Course content and registration

In the future, the EVZ Academy online will become a separate section on the EVZ Foundation website. Each user will find the essential learning and interaction offers there on the EVZ Foundation's main topics explained in a structured and sequential way.

The formats are just as diverse as the possibilities of a digital learning world: Simple texts help to grasp complex content very quickly. Videos and audio provide low-barrier access to the topics. Tutorials, webinars, online meet ups and forums encourage and require interaction. Blended learning offers combine the strengths of different formats.

The digital EVZ Academy thus offers plenty of opportunities for contemporary exchange and networking on the Foundation's subjects and to make the acquisition of knowledge more effective, interactive and flexible.

Course examples in the EVZ Academy online:

Informed, courageous, committed! A joint initiative against antisemitism
Who were the "Ostarbeiter?” [Eastern Workers] A learning unit on forced labor under National Socialism (link follows)