Culture, Education And Sports
Enlarge image
(© picture-alliance/ ZB)
The cultural department fosters and coordinates the exchange of culture, education and sports with Jamaica as well as the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands and the Turks & Caicos Islands. It also supports German cultural, educational and sport organisations operating in Jamaica, in particular the Jamaican - German Society and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
The focus of the department's work are the support of the German language and the academic exchange.
Other work areas include: the cooperation with German speaking associations, youth exchange, relations with religious and sport communities. Furthermore the cultural section observes Jamaican politics in the earlier mentioned areas and maintains close contact with federal and state governementa as well as a great number of Jamaican organisations.
On the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ambassador Josef Beck honoured and remembered Holocaust victims when addressing the congregation on Friday night service of 20 April 2012 at the Jewish Synagogue.
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Anyone wanting to study in Germany is able to choose between 372 higher-education institutions that are spread across the entire country. Be it in cities or in the countryside, traditional or highly modern, small with everything in walking distance or large and spread across a pulsating metropolis – today almost every larger German city has its own college or university.
read more
German is the language with the highest number of native speakers in the EU. Over 100 million people grow up with it, and 50 million learn it as a foreign language. German is alive, it is changing, it picks up trends and fashions, and plays with them. In institutions of the European Union German is, together with English and French, the most important language.
read more
There are many sides to cultural life in Germany: From North to South there are around 400 theaters and 140 professional orchestras. The museum world is of quite unparalleled quality – featuring 600 art museums with diverse internationally renowned collections. Young German painting is equally vibrant, and is long since part of the international scene.
read more
The ten Jamaican winners of our street art contest "Urban Heartbeat - An Artistic Encounter in Public Spaces" exchanged and developed ideas and techniques alongside German artist Jim Avignon. Together they created a wonderful mural within the Cassava Piece neighbourhood next to the Constant Spring Primary and Junior High School.
Urban Heartbeat - An Artistic Encounter in Public Spaces
Within its sports promotion programme Germany supports the development of sport in Jamaica by sending experts, making donations of sport material and arranging for training courses for coaches at sport schools and universities in Germany.
Sports Promotion
