ISWI 2007

But what does “education“ mean? Is it limited to school times or do we talk about lifelong learning? We often think of concepts like “society of knowledge”, but is today's society really aware of the responsibility for education? The high rate of illiteracy is well known, but how can we make education accessible to everyone and how can we give people the same educational opportunities? Generally, what does a modern person have to know and does omniscience exist?

Together with the invited international participants, the students and professors of the Ilmenau Technical University, the lecturers, the fellow citizens of Ilmenau and with everyone else who wants to participate in ISWI 2007 we want to talk about these and many more questions.

Now it is time to talk about topics which have already moved so many minds during ISWI 2005 at a wide, international level and to indicate possible solution attempts for problems, so that a time of action can follow the week of reflexion. Thinking is necessary to act responsibly and to be able to change things.