Steering committees

The Education Conference provides guidance for the work of the Education Office in the Education Network.

The Education Conference generally meets once a year and serves as a platform for exchange, knowledge transfer, participation, and development. Under the cooperation agreement between the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Oberberg District, responsible parties from the region come together for the Education Conference, including representatives from municipalities, schools, school boards, school supervision, politics, and thematically related regional institutions and organizations with their expertise, such as the Employment Agency, representatives of the Chamber of Crafts and the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, the adult education center, municipal integration centers, local religious communities, as well as representatives from the culture and sports sectors, kindergartens, parent-teacher associations, students, businesses, and others to collectively further develop the Oberberg education region. Agreements and recommendations on various topics and fields of action are developed to meet the needs of the Oberberg Education Network.

The education team collaborates with representatives from municipalities, the state of NRW, schools, the student council, and the Oberberg district to prepare and coordinate agreements and decisions of strategic importance for the Oberberg education region.

Quality standards, target agreements, action plans in the fields of the education office, and concrete implementation assignments are developed here. All decisions are made by consensus and formally recorded through resolutions.

Guests may be invited to provide advisory input based on their expertise depending on the occasion and topic.

All meetings of the education team are prepared, followed up, and accompanied by the education office.

Our education team is composed as follows:

• Three representatives from the district-affiliated cities and municipalities (currently the city of Bergneustadt, municipalities of Lindlar and Nümbrecht)

• One representative from the upper school supervision (Cologne District Government, regional coordination for the Oberberg education network)

• One representative from the lower school supervision (School Office for the Oberberg District, regional coordination for the Oberberg education network)

• Three representatives from school administrations (currently Lindlar-Kapellensüng primary school, Bergneustadt secondary school, and Waldbröl comprehensive school)

• A legitimate representative of day-care centers and family centers as a cross-provider representative of the early childhood sector

• Two representatives from the district student council Oberberg

• Three representatives from the Oberberg district (Head of the School and Education Office, Head of the Youth Welfare Office, Head of Economic Development)

• Head of the Education Office

The meetings of the education team usually take place four times a year and are not public. The meeting dates are announced in the calendar for informational purposes.