Institute of Development and Continuing Education

Generator of new knowledge and ideas

The Institute of Development and Continuing Education offers a space where pioneering projects, ideas and forms of training can take shape, as well as an impressive range of professional development opportunities.

One of its excellence programmes – the Focusyear – offers talented jazz musicians from around the world the opportunity to study for two semesters under the mentorship of a dozen jazz maestros. As well as playing together as a band, participants benefit from intensive coaching and support so that they can exploit their creative and musical potential to the full.

The Kulturstunde project aims to facilitate child and youth access to many different forms and manifestations of cultural production. A classroom-based pilot in the cantons of Basel-Stadt and Aargau seeks to provide children of compulsory school age with equal access to culture.

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