‘Vernetzte Welten’ from Goethe
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Colombo Goethe Institute recently launched its first ever event of ‘Vernetzte Welten – Food Hacking,’ in South Asia, a unique student exchange programme by renowned Jugend Hackt covering the three countries India, Sri Lanka and Germany.
A three day workshop was recently organised by Goethe Institute Colombo where students learning the German language from Sri Lanka and India took part with specialised tutors from Germany.
The workshop and presentation ceremony themed ‘Vernetzte Welten – Food hacking’ (Connected Worlds – Food hacking), was a collaborative programme by Goethe Institute and ‘Jugend Hackt’ or ‘Youth Chops’. Jugend hackt is a programme designed to promote young computer coders in Germany.
The four groups demonstrated four different projects as creating a website on food hacking named ‘Healthy Essen – Eat Right’, a quiz about gardening for fresh vegetables, a computer game called ‘Essen Run’ (Food Run) and a mobile app named ‘Veg Zum Essen’ to find healthy restaurants in the city.
A colourful closing ceremony has been organised by the students in four working groups that demonstrated the results of their tasks given through the workshop.
Institute Director Goethe Institute Dr. Petra Raymond said the chief objective of the programme was to bring together young people from Sri Lanka, India and Germany to develop ideas and prototypes around the topic ‘the future of food’.
The event has been scheduled to be conducted in three cities, starting from Colombo to Delhi and Kolkata in India respectively.
The programme ‘Vernetzte Welten’ started its first pilot project in 2016 with 10 German and 10 Korean students in Seoul, who worked on the topic of the student exchange of the future.
Head of Language Department Goethe Institute Colombo Rakitha Karunaratne said 17 local students representing leading schools of Royal College, Musaeus College, Devi Balika Vidyalaya, Hillwood College – Kandy, Maliyadeva College – Kurunegala and Jennings International School – Negombo participated at
this programme.