Education and integration
Deutsche Bahn Foundation, together with the Reading Foundation (Stiftung Lesen), is heavily involved in reading and language development. This year’s 20th nationwide “reading aloud day” and the annual “reading monitor” demonstrated the shared commitment. The “reading monitor 2023” education study provides information about reading practice in families, analyzes factors that can help to ensure that more children in families have access to reading aloud, and demonstrates solutions such as the influence of the availability of reading material.
In addition to the digital offer Simply read aloud!, approximately 150 day-care centers were recuited in 2023 together with the Reading Foundation (Stiftung Lesen) after a pilot phase to enable daycare center specialists to practice language and reading promotion. Multilingual materials and books are given particular consideration.
For a fifth year running, together with Open Knowledge Foundation e.V. Deutsche Bahn Foundation is strengthening digital skills for children and adolescents. In 2023, two more “youth hack labs” were created, which, with a regular free offer in local workshops, makerspaces and hackerspaces, schools, universities and other places, contribute to a greater level of education justice.
With Balu und Du e.V., Deutsche Bahn Foundation launched a three-year scaling project in 2023 in the area of the nationwide mentoring program for primary schoolchildren from socioeconomically disadvantaged families in order to set up further sites. In out-of-school education, 18- to 30-year-olds support children for one year through individual sponsorship and thus support their resilience and self-efficacy in order to better surmount the challenges of everyday life.
