Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden

About Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden

Paideia is an academic framework founded in 2000 through foundational grants from the Swedish Government and the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation. The mandate of Paideia is to nurture the renewal of European Jewish culture, to support cross-cultural dialogue and to promote a positive paradigm of minority culture within European societies. Paideia does this intensive educational leadership programs, focusing on in-depth knowledge of Jewish sources and on social entrepreneurship. Paideia is a non-confessional institution of excellence, innovation, know-how and literacy that produces individual leaders and a collective movement of activism. The matrix at Paideia merges academic life with professional and community work, and Jewish culture with the wider European society. Paideia is also the central hub for nurturing social innovation in Jewish Europe and has fostered more new initiatives than any other institution. Since its inception, Paideia has developed into a premier European learning center for Jewish studies and has been able to produce a strong group of leaders for a new paradigm of European Jewish community, culture, and knowledge. Paideia has been instrumental in putting Stockholm and Sweden on the map as a hub for academia, culture and innovation for European Jewish life. Cornerstones in all of Paideia’s undertakings are that European minority culture should build upon inclusiveness, critical thinking, openness and the support of a democratic civil society. It is a unique European institution, which under one roof combines academic teaching with programmatic support to grass roots initiatives and civil society, and the only such institution with a pan-European mission. Today, Paideia has almost 800 program graduates who are national and local leaders in education, religion, museums, academia, and community life. Individually and collectively, they are creating a new paradigm of knowledge and activism within Jewish life in Europe.

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