With the research projects BildungsCHANCE and KINEA - Skills of International Experts for the German Labour Market, the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences is making a scientific and practical educational contribution to sustainable educational and labour market integration in the face of migration-related challenges. The projects provide answers to the questions of how the entry of young people who have experienced educational socialisation outside the EU into a course of study or the labour market can be tailored to their needs. What framework is needed to develop the skills they have acquired abroad with a view to studying or working in Germany? Which networks and which approaches are needed to promote their integration process? At the same time, research-based practices of education and labour market integration are tested, scientifically monitored and evaluated at HAW Hamburg.
Seizing opportunities - shaping the future
HAW Hamburg attracts young people who want to make a difference - regardless of their country of origin. We also want to change structures and create the framework for them to be able to study successfully with us and then immediately pursue a profession on the German labour market that matches their qualifications.
As part of the BildungsCHANCE project (2024-2027) funded by the Asylum Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) with 2.4 million euros, the Migration Office, headed by Prof. Dr Louis Henri Seukwa, is implementing measures for upper secondary school pupils, prospective students and first-year students from third countries to prepare them for a successful start to their studies with the help of specialist tutorials, workshops and counselling. The pupils' parents receive parental counselling from Bachelor's students of Social Work at HAW Hamburg who are qualified in systemic counselling so that they can support their children in the best possible way on their educational path. Project participants, as well as interested parties, also have access to digital and freely accessible multilingual learning/teaching modules on various specialised and interdisciplinary topics. The project is being scientifically monitored and evaluated.
In the research project KINEA - Skills of International Experts for the German Labour Market (2024-2028) funded by the DAAD Profi Plus programme with 714,000 euros, participants are supported in a resource-oriented and life situation-sensitive manner on the basis of a systematic skills assessment and potential development analysis to acquire professional and interdisciplinary skills for a successful entry into the German labour market in line with their education.
"With these two projects," says Vice President Peter Wulf, "the Centre for Migration Research and Integration Practices covers the entire student life journey and thus illustrates HAW Hamburg's innovative educational approach of developing science-based and practice-oriented solutions to current challenges."
