Danish Council for International Cooperation for I

Denmark

REPRESENTATIVE

Anke Tästensen

E-mail: anke@dssv.dk

The Work

What is your mission and vision?
Coordination of the members’ international initiatives.

About your own members of the national organization

      Description of the members of the organization:

  • Schools - individuals? – There are 6 member-organizations, all of them national associations of independent schools.
  • Which kind of schools? – Different religious and pedagogical attitudes/directions.
  • How many members does your organization have? – 7 school organizations and 1 teachers union.
  • How many schools at which level? - Aprox. 250 schools. Primary and lower secondary schools.
  • How many pupils are attending these schools? - Aprox. 70.000 pupils

Organizational policy

Which questions and tasks concerning the organization do you emphasize for the coming years?
The umbrella-organization is of cause dealing with spreading the knowledge of the politics and activities of ECNAIS – and supporting the seven Danish member organizations dealing with international matters (European politic concerning free and independent schools, exchange, globalization etc.)

Current challenges

Which challenges are for the organization the most important currently?
The most difficult and destroying problem is the Government school funding plan. In a period of 4 years from 2011 the government funding decreases from some 75 to 71 percent of the average state school funding.

Information

In what information are you especially interested in?
Everything about changes in the conditions in the European countries concerning the free and independent schools. We need all the information we can get about the changing/the plans of conditions for these schools. This is certainly the chief aim of our membership of ECNAIS – apart from listening to the experiences of our good colleges all over Europe and supporting each other with the developing of the cooperation between the countries and helping each other to solve/deal with the national challenges (problems).