School for Life, Germany-wide
The ‘School for Life’ project brings people from various walks of life into schools as so-called ‘LifeTeachers’ to support pupils with practical life knowledge and career insights during missed lessons. In this way, we are countering the shortage of teachers and the growing educational inequality in Germany by reducing absenteeism and giving children authentic insights into the world outside their familiar environment and school.
The Project
Success at school and outside of school in Germany is still very much dependent on support from parents. In addition, 85 percent of all Germans believe that school does not adequately prepare young people for life.
The ‘School for Life’ project brings people from various walks of life into schools to support pupils with practical life skills and career insights during missed lessons. They are trained and certified as volunteer LifeTeachers to pass on their knowledge and experience in a targeted manner – in person or digitally. An app is used to coordinate the topics requested by the schools with the LifeTeachers.
The project promotes equal opportunities and educational success by providing targeted support to schools across Germany and recruiting them for the project. At the Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt locations in particular – where the Lufthansa Group is also strongly represented – five schools with special challenges each receive start-up funding to use cancelled lessons for so-called LifeLessons.
In total, up to 10,000 children per school year benefit from a diverse range of subjects that open up prospects for them and strengthen their motivation to obtain school-leaving qualifications and vocational qualifications. This gives socially disadvantaged children and young people with a history of migration in particular access to important everyday and career guidance that prepares them for a self-determined future.
