The educational concept of WEA is based on two pillars:
- Basic understanding of social democracy and democracy as a way of life,
- The knowledge of the need for socio-ecological transformation.
WEA draw on the concepts of social learning and transformative education.They want to empower people to perceive themselves as active, self-effective subjects, to make democratic decisions and to participate in social debates and processes. The digital transformation and our use of digital media needs to take into account all citizens everywhere. Special attention has to be given to people with special needs, people with learning challenges, people in difficult economic situations, people in the countryside, and for all WEA must make sure that they can acquire internet literacy and critical understanding in a time where fake news, deep fakes and general disinformation and propaganda are being often part of our daily sources of information. WEA believe that a person's identity needs to be protected against economic exploitation by the big technological industries and that personal data is not for sale.
WEA work with likeminded organisations in various projects:
https://www.we-akademie.de/projekte/
https://www.we-akademie.de/internationale-kooperationsprojekte/