Blickpunkt: Migrantinnen – Service Centre for labour market integration of migrant women in Saxony-Anhalt

The "Service Centre for labour market integration of migrant women in Saxony-Anhalt" strives to significantly improve the integration of migrant women into the labour market.

For this purpose, it is designing flexible measures and modules for counselling, assistance, and coaching for migrant women. Free of charge, Blickpunkt: Migrantinnen focuses on structural obstacles, pushing in particular the awareness of actors on the labour market for the conditions and needs of migrant women in Saxony Anhalt with regard to their labour market integration.

The overall coordination of the project rests with the Caritas. Other institutions involved are the Europäische Bildungswerk für Beruf und Gesellschaft gGmbH (EBG) as well as Minor - Projektkontor für Bildung und Forschung gGmbH.

The Contact and Service Centre (Caritas) offers counselling and assistance as well as giving reference to other counselling institutions. This includes help when searching for a job or a job training, registering in work qualification modules, searching for suitable language courses, encountering problems with the residence permit, requiring childcare, or looking for a flat. Specific needs in terms of mobility, flexible childcare options as well as part time job trainings and qualification measures are fully taken into account in this respect. The women will be actively motivated to join the labour market, which should prevent them from cancelling measures they have already started.

Due to the current corona situation, the individual counselling of Caritas' contact and service centre will primarily take place via phone and email.

Job qualifications in form of modules are offered by the qualification sector (EBG): Learning German (learning in everyday situations), empowerment (promoting strengths, defining job perspectives), job preparation (language at work) as well as integration into the labour market (writing job applications/job interview training, meetings with companies, assisting the job start).

In order to secure a permanent assistance, the module-based qualification programme has been changed temporarily to online formats. This allows migrant women to make use of the offer from any location. You will get detailed information mostly via phone or email by the contact and service centre of the Caritas.

The contact and service centre is supported with scientific expertise (Minor), e.g. by means of creating professional documents and handouts, or designing and implementing thematic formats.

The joint project continues the successful groundwork of the Service Centre for Migrant and Fugitive Women in Saxony Anhalt (2017-2019), which had also been based at the Caritasverband für das Bistum Magdeburg e. V. and is still included in the network as a sub-project.

Inside the network, Caritas is responsible for the overall coordination of the joint project, public relations, and event management. Furthermore, it is in charge of the contact and service centre as a first point of contact, providing individual counselling of migrant women as well as projects, organisations, and companies. This includes, among others, the launching of measures for the target group (e.g. BAMF language courses for women with childcare). The close connection between counselling, qualification, and assistance assures a holistic programme for the migrant women.

A very important aspect in this context is the close cooperation of the project with migrant organisations and migrant communities. As a result, concerns and requests from migrant women with regard to their labour market integration shall be detected and, in the next step, concrete offers in terms of project counselling, joint events, and information forwarding shall be suggested.

The Europäische Bildungswerk für Beruf und Gesellschaft (EBG) is responsible for the qualification sector within the network. Its employees work out concrete offers and modules for the target group, e.g. integrated learning (learning German in everyday situations), empowerment (promoting strengths, defining job perspectives), job preparation (language at work) as well as integration into the labour market (writing job applications/job interview training, meetings with companies, assisting the job start). Access to the offers should be made easy and be based on the current circumstances of the migrant women.

In order to secure a permanent assistance, the module-based qualification programme has been changed temporarily to online formats. This allows migrant women to make use of the offer from any location. Once face-to-face lessons are possible again, the qualification trainings will take place at the EBG classrooms in Magdeburg and, potentially, later in Halle (Saale) as well. A close socio-educational support for the participating women will be guaranteed for the entire qualification sector by the project partner Caritas.

Europäisches Bildungswerk für Beruf und Gesellschaft gGmbH
Alt Westerhüsen 50
39122 Magdeburg
Tel .: +49 (0) 391 6239130
E-Mail: module@blickpunkt-migrantinnen.de

Offering collegial consultation, Minor - Projektkontor für Bildung und Forschung gGmbH provides their professional expertise / handouts to the network partners. This will include, among others, scientific and legal aspects concerning labour market integration of migrant women. In cooperation with their partners, Minor, when requested, advises relevant actors on the labour market individually on legal and strategic questions regarding the labour market integration of migrant women. For this purpose, concrete thematic formats will be designed, offered, and distributed via established networks.

Minor – Projektkontor für Bildung und Forschung gGmbH
Alt-Reinickendorf 25
13407 Berlin
Dr. Janine Ziegler
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 457989504
E-Mail: j.ziegler@minor-kontor.de