OceanCollege - School under Sails

We are convinced that todays education system in Germany doesn’t sufficiently prepare students for life after school. Understanding of one’s own personality, how to deal with conflict, and economic understanding just isn’t taught properly in the traditional school curriculum. OceanCollege transforms conventional teaching methods and the lives of the participants for six months in a sailing classroom. During this time, the students live on a traditional sai… Mehr anzeigen

The aim of OceanCollege is the de-schooling of school and is partially inspired by Kurt Hahn, in 1941, Hahn developed a program called “outward bound“. Its core principle is allowing students to learn from real environments and experiences. Those principles shall empower our students to master the challenges of the 21st century.

We are looking for supporters with the desire for a sustainable, decelerated world! We are looking for supporters who want to ret… Mehr anzeigen

We need your support because we do not want only certain social classes taking part in this project. The more people from different parts of the community take part the more exciting OceanCollege will be. That is why we want everybody to take part. We want to make it possible for one or more students to travel with us backed by your financial support.

We want to use the funding to support one or more students with a weak financial backround to experience their journey of a life-time. Therefore, the students can apply for a grant backed by our Startnext supporters, that is YOU! The students have to provide a letter of motivation to convince our team that they are the ones who need the funding the most.

Every Euro that exceeds the funding threshold will be used to support more students who applied. As of t… Mehr anzeigen

The founders of the OceanCollege are Johan, Johannes and Falco.

Johan applies his educational experience to OceanCollege. He believes that learning is done best through individual and practical methods and should always include personal development. In 2008/2009 Johan was a teacher and project leader on a similar project and through this experience he knows the route and the life on the ship. Since then he has not been able to ignore the potential behind s… Mehr anzeigen