Projects

Amal, Berlin!

2016

Amal, Berlin! is an online-magazine in Arabic and Farsi/Dari from Berlin. Professional journalists from Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan and Iran report from and about the German capital. Our readers belong to the growing community of newcomers.

Asylwohnung.at

2016

Asylwohnung.at offers refugees and especially asylum-seekers the possibility to find organisations that help with finding shelter, flats and in general with questions concerning there licing/stay in Austria.

Athens Coordination Centre for Migrant and Refugee issues

2017 – 2018

Strengthening cooperation between the City of Athens and all the actors involved in protection and integration of migrants and refugees in the city

Booklet-Series: Trauma Surviving and Hope

2018

Many young people suffer from the effects of traumatic experiences. To provide young teenagers with an understanding of their impact the booklet series “Trauma Surviving and Hope” addresses posttraumatic symptoms in picture stories. In several stories about sleeplessness, concentration problems, anxiety, anger and aggression, grief, dark memories, etc. we talk about the problems faced after emotional injuries and make suggestions for strategies to alleviate them.

Sleepless

Child Friendly City Initiative

1996

A Child Friendly City is a local system of good governance committed to fulfilling children's rights. It is a city/community where the voices, needs, priorities and rights of children are an integral part of public policies, programmes and decisions. It is, as a result, a city that is fit for all.

Coming of Age in Excile (CAGE)

2015 – 2020

Investigate how socio-economic and health inequities develop during formative years of young refugees, and how they relate to each other and to key areas of welfare policy. Cross-country comparisons identify welfare policies that may promote socio-economic and health equity for young refugees.

Diversity Dinner

2017 – 2033

At the dinner we prototype social cohesion by getting people from different cultures, backgrounds, milieus, education, occupation, age, gender etc. to share their experiences and a meal and spend an evening together. Goals is to build respect for our differences and find common vaues.

Education Fair

The Education Fair (Bildungsfestival) is a yearly 4-day networking event empowering 100-130 young students from disadvantaged schools who show commitment for voluntary work and become engaged in project groups.

Educational Support to Children with Special Needs in T5

2018

This Project seeks to ensure early screening to children with learning difficulties (LD) and Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in public schools in North Lebanon regions among the refugee and host communities.

Emergency Safe Housing for GBV Survivor

The Mid-Way House “Al DAR” is a free, safe, supportive, temporary house for women at risk or survivors of GBV, both single women and teen adolescent girls, and women with their children. In this confidential environment, women can gather information and explore options with the assistance of professional staff.

engage.ch

2018

The multimedia platform engage.ch connects with young users in their everyday life. They can use text, images and videos to communicate their concerns and demands, as well as post, discuss and vote online. Politicians and youth parliamentarians can view these concerns and address them. The platform was launched in 2014 and more than 2200 requests have since been submitted by young people.

Get The Mayor

#GetTheMayor is an online platform that lets all citizens and friends of the city get involved in helping shape the future of their city by having the mayor visit a place of their choice.

Hire Social

Online platform connecting Newcomers to Germany with companies wishing to hire them and mentors supporting them in their professional development.

Improving educational structures

2017 – 2017

In 2017, Ville de Lyon took the opportunity to consult their citizens on educational structural change via Civocracy. They opened local education decisions to students, teachers and parents in order to encourage the city to change education policy based upon the experiences of the community.

Inspire, Empower, and Transform - Increasing Resilience of disadvantaged communities in North Lebanon

2016 – 2018

This project seeks to enhance the socio-economic situation of disadvantaged communities affected by armed conflicts in North Lebanon, through increasing resilience of women, youth and children (with a special focus on children and youth with special needs)

Intra-Youth Dialogue on Social Cohesion

2018

The Intra-Youth Dialogue on Social Cohesion is a dialogue project aimed at fostering social cohesion, overcoming stereotypes, preventing isolation by strengthening bonds and exploring the similarities in dialogues between young people from diverse backgrounds.

Jugendberufsagentur Landkreis Miltenberg

2018

Offering individual support and coaching for marginalized adolescents who have dropped out of the labour market, education and even social support systems.

Kompa

2015

Kompa offers information/exchange/support on asylum issues, as well as intercultural encounters in Vienna and Lower Austria. Kompa supports communities and volunteers to enable social cohesion between refugees and local communities by implementing a flexible approach to meet the clients’ needs.

Makani - My Space & Learning Support Services

2014

In partnership with UNICEF, MECI provides comprehensive and multi-integrated services for refugee and vulnerable children, youth and adults across various communities in Jordan. The program is implemented within Public Schools.

Making a Difference for Refugee Children in Europe

2016 – 2017

Providing legal assistance to unaccompanied refugee children traveling through Serbia, analyzing the state of child protection system and offering recommendations for the improvement of practice, training local stakeholders on the foundations of the rights of the child.

Maya Vakfı Balat Field Office

2017

Maya Foundation established a field office in Balat, İstanbul where a huge population of Syrians under temporary protection live. Balat Field Office offers child protection services, individual and group therapies for children aged 5-18; also support sessions and trainings for parents.

Mensch

2017

What makes us human? This is what Ferdinand Sarnitz and Act.Now seek to find in the new YouTube series “Mensch”. In interviews with outstanding people from various backgrounds and continents he asks a set of 16 questions in an effort to find out who they are, how they think, and what drives them to do what they do.

Mental Health Services for Refugee and Asylum Seekers in Lebanon

2018

This project seeks to provide early screening and comprehensive rehabilitation services to victims of torture, war trauma survivors and sexual and gender based violence survivors among the refugee community. This project will contribute to improving the mental health state and psychosocial wellbeing of 700 Syrian and 320 Iraqis and other nationalities through the provision of specialized mental health services based on a holistic approach.

Multaka: Museum as Meeting Point

As part of the project “Multaka: Museum as Meeting Point – Refugees as Guides in Berlin Museums”, Syrian and Iraqi refugees are being trained as museum guides so that they can then provide guided museum tours for Syrian and Iraqi refugees in their native language. As of August 2018, tours are also offered in German and English.

Multaqa (Arabic for “meeting point”) also aims to facilitate the interchange of diverse cultural and historical experiences.

Municipal Apprenticeship Initiative

2015

The “Municipal Apprenticeship Initiative” targets young unaccompanied minor refugees and young adults living in asylum shelters in the District to facilitate the completion of an apprenticeship and the integration in the local labour market.

Non-Formal Education

2018 – 2020

In partnership with UNICEF and Questscope, MECI will provide refugee and Jordanian drop out adolescents and youth with a unique educational recovery opportunity to get them back into formal pathways to Tawjihi certification or vocational training.

Nyköping model

2014

Several years ago, the Municipality of Nyköping decided to merge its four high schools into one. The reasoning was that if children from different parts of town are allocated to different schools, this reinforces ethnic and social segregation. The Nyköping model strengthens students’ social skills, promotes integration and social development, and creates encounters between kids from different backgrounds.

Pathways to Educational Resilience and Inclusion

2017

Short videos will show promising practices for newly arrived children and youth in the field of education. Two or three promising practices from the MENAT region and Europe will be linked together to show one important topic (one narrative) that is essential for the educational participation of newly arrived children and youth.

Peer Training for Youth with Refugee Background

In four months of workshops and courses, young people with refugee background are trained as Peer-Mentors. They learn about project management, topics of human rights, health, living-together, housing, the job market and many more. The training enables them to become active as multipliers within their peer group.

Protecting Myself, Protecting Others

2013 – 2013

Informing about sexual and reproductive health issues and overcoming traditional taboos and inequalities in understanding of these health issues

Raum_Wagen

2015

The Raum_Wagen (Room_Wagon) is a mobile room for encounters which can be adapted to the characteristics of different locations. It is a kitchen, a workshop and a flexible room all in one.

Refugee.Info

2015

Refugee.Info was born in 2015 as a mobile site that provided critical information to the millions of asylumseekers pouring onto the Greek islands.

Respekt.net - Crowdfunding für eine bessere Gesellschaft

2011

Social projects and initiatives can start their crowdfunding campaign on our platform

Rights 4U Live-in Malta

Annual 3-day event promoted in schools and youth centers. Participants come from different backgrounds, ages and genders. Activities promote connection among the participants and encourage discussions.

Social Act

2018 – 2019

Increase capacities of young women and men in critical thinking, advocacy, soft skills, designing and leading social innovations aimed at social inclusion in Kosovo, with emphasis on gender equality and minority inclusion.

Study on Trafficking Resilience and Vulnerability en route to Europe

2017 – 2019

STRIVE is an 18-month research project on trafficking in persons along the migrant and refugee routes to the EU during the period 2015-2017, as well as on vulnerabilities to trafficking and factors of resilience to trafficking.

Summer Urban Camp

2017

The “Summer Urban Camp” on the Greek Island of Chios gives children the opportunity to participate in diverse activities over the tree month of summer holiday.

Talents for Austria

2015

"Talents for Austria" is our response to the shortage of apprentices and skilled workers. Young migrants learn German, our values and are prepared for and placed in an apprenticeship. Companies can fill vacant positions. Austria gains young people who want to contribute to the system.

The Echo-Hub Leros

2016 – 2020

The Echo-Hub Leros is a day-centre offering classes and activities to local people in need and to refugees, who are detained on the island for an average of 9 months.

Towards an Inclusive Education

2016 – 2017

To improve overall social-emotional-behavioral and academic growth of both Turkish and Syrian children through school practices in the three pilot Turkish public schools in line with PBS.

Transitions Upon Resettlement in Norway - TURIN

Educational and psychosocial transitions encountered by young refugees upon resettlement in Norway (TURIN) - Based on classroom observations and interviews with students and staff conducted during fieldwork in five upper secondary schools in Norway, the TURIN study aims to explore the role of schools in supporting newly-resettled refugee young people.

Trauma Picture Book

2014

For children with traumatic experience and their families Susanne Stein offers two counselling tools, a Trauma Picture Book and a Trauma Picture Sheet. By reading, painting and playing the child and its parents gain a better understanding of the effect of post-traumatic stress upon their present situation. It just does not disappear once you are in a safe(r) place. Tips are given on how to feel better: with help of parents and supporters, by own activities and possibly by a special trauma therapy.

Trauma Work Group

2016

The Trauma Work Group (partner of Susanne Stein Trauma Picture Book) of the Institute of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy aims to promote the mental health of refugees, children and adolescents, and to adapt them to the new homeland through a series of preventive actions and interventions.

WE GIVE - in kind donations for jobs (WIR GEBEN - Sachspenden für Arbeitsplätze)

2018

WE GIVE is an online platform where personal items can be made available for a good cause with little effort. Tradeable items can be offered all year round and - and this is the biggest novelty - the value of the donated article will be credited to the donor for tax purposes!

Welcoming School

2017 – 2018

To enable Syrian refugee children to integrate successfully into Turkish primary schools the project empowers them with sufficient Turkish language skills, support of their parents and favourable learning conditions through reduced post-stress learning hindrances and a welcoming school climate.

YOUNG Men Initiative

2017 – 2020

Goals:
Fight interpersonal and gender-based violence.
Improve gender equality in the region.