Ellen Ringier receives PH Zurich Education Award

For her commitment at the interface between school and home, she will receive this year's Education Award from the PH Zurich and the Pestalozzianum Foundation at the PH Zurich University Day on October 31, 2014.

Read here the Werbewoche interview with Ellen Ringier on the relaunch of Fritz+Fränzi.

"Ellen Ringier's commitment is long-standing, constant, persistent, and involves personal and some financial investment." This is what the jury wrote when awarding this year's Education Prize of the PH Zurich and the Pestalozzianum Foundation. Ellen Ringier was motivated to found the Foundation Elternsein and initiate Fritz+Fränzi by the increasing educational challenges facing teachers and parents. "I had the impression at the time that not all the people involved were able to deal with this complexity," she says. In contrast, she says, there was no magazine or consulting service that specifically dealt with these demands. That's why the editorial team is particularly concerned with topics relating to the upbringing of school-age children and adolescents.

Ellen Ringier's goal is to strengthen parenting skills and network existing offerings. "I would like to achieve that parents and teachers exchange more about their problems." The focus of Fritz+Fränzi has shifted over the years. At the beginning, for example, the meaningful leisure activities of one's own children was a big topic. At that time, the editorial team would not have chosen an annual focus on "mental disorders," as it does today, says Ellen Ringier. On receiving the education award, she says: "I feel very honored. Building up the foundation and the magazine has been the greatest effort in my life. The Education Award is the first public recognition of my commitment." (SDA)

Teaser image (Ellen Ringier): Parenting.ch