English Information - About us

For more than 75 years, the North Rhine-Westphalia State Agency for Civic Education has been strengthening and promoting people and structures of North Rhine-Westphalia's democratic political culture: non-partisan and discursive.

With events, books and digital media, but also with funding, it supports citizens, political education institutions, memorials and advice centers in keeping democracy alive.

Our educational programs are for people from all social classes and backgrounds. We want to address interested citizens, young people and immigrants as well as traditional opinion leaders and knowledge brokers in politics, schools and further education institutions. The aim is to create an informed civil society and a political discourse that takes different positions into account.