Projects
With his sustainable projects, Andreas Salcher has been showing how things could be done better for many years.
Towards a LEARNING NATION
Start 2021
In a LEARNING NATION, learning does not only take place in schools and universities. The mission is to invite all social groups to become part of a learning community: Learning companies, learning administrations, learning communities, learning cities and, of course, learning kindergartens, schools and universities, which are becoming increasingly interconnected. Four models with different levels of ambition were developed and implemented in the three pilot communities of Oberwart, Schladming and Wolfsberg.
The "Sir Karl Popper School"
Start 1993
After a personal meeting with Sir Karl Popper in London in 1993, Andreas Salcher, together with Bernhard Görg and Walter Strobl, founded the first Austrian school for the gifted, the "Sir Karl Popper School" in Vienna. Since then, he has been the honorary executive vice-president of this project. The school celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2024 and has developed into one of the best schools for the gifted in Europe.
25 years of the Sir Karl Popper School - The documentary
The Curriculum Project
Start 2008
The vision of "THE CURRICULUM PROJECT - Creating the Schools of Tomorrow" is to create the school of the future with the best minds in the world and make it accessible to all children. The aim is to narrow the gap between what children learn every day at school today and what they actually need for the future. Andreas Salcher interviewed some of the leading scientists, including Howard Gardner from Harvard University, Peter Senge and Otto Scharmer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The Waldzell Meetings at Melk Abbey
2003 to 2007
Following a meeting with the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho in spring 2003 in Tarbes, France, Andreas Salcher founded the Waldzell Institute together with Gundula Schatz, named after the fictional place "Waldzell" in Hermann Hesse's novel "The Glass Bead Game". Among other things, this institute organized the "Waldzell Meetings" in the Benedictine Abbey of Melk, which developed into an internationally acclaimed dialogue between artists, religious leaders and scientists. In the first four years, seven Nobel Prize winners, moral authorities such as the Dalai Lama, artists such as Christo and JC, Paulo Coelho, Frank Gehry, Isabel Allende and some of the most important scientists of our time such as Robert Gallo, Carl Djerassi, Paul Nurse, Gunter Blobel, Kary Mullis, Craig Venter and Anton Zeilinger took part.
Kurier Pupil Advocate
2008 to 2011
Within a few weeks of the publication of his first book "DER TALENTIERTE SCHÜLER UND SEINE FEINDE" in March 2008, Andreas Salcher received over 2,500 emails from long-suffering pupils and parents. Together with Christoph Kotanko, then editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper "Kurier", he then developed the Kurier Student Advocate. For three years, he acted pro bono, independently and unbureaucratically as a representative of pupils' concerns to the respective school administration and was able to achieve solutions for those affected in a large number of cases.
