Sponsored by the Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales and the European Social Fund employment campaign with and for migrants FOR BUSINESS FOR IMMIGRANTS Living intercultural strengths together! Advisory and training measures in the Hannover business area Christina Bötel

Employment campaign with and for migrants Overview Personal and organisational information Situation in Hannover Important information about ALBuM Development Partnership ALBuM Living intercultural strengths together! What do we want to achieve? Development Partnership as essential basis Final remarks

Employment campaign with and for migrants Personal and organisational information Christina Bötel Hannover City Council Projectmanager ALBuM ALBuM stand for the german version of Work-oriented learning and advice with and for immigrants Hannover

Employment campaign with and for migrants The Situation in Hannover population of about half a million in business matters, Hannover is an all-rounder: the capital of Lower Saxony an industrial location a services centre a market-place and hosts the biggest trade fairs in the world Open for the world and day-to-day lives are also intercultural experiences: a quarter of the population have an immigration background (120,000 people from over 100 different cultures) weve a long way to go on equality of access to education and the job market

Employment campaign with and for migrants Development Partnership ALBuM Living intercultural strengths together! Ethnic minority organisations educational institutions Hannover City Council Arbeitsgemeinschaft MigrantInnen und Flüchtlinge in Niedersachsen – (AMFN e.V.) Start EQUAL 2005

Employment campaign with and for migrants What do we want to achieve? Provide support (advice and qualification) so that migrant businesses can maintain their competitiveness intercultural teams work together harmoniously in companies migrants keep their jobs and improve their job prospects migrants can re-enter the job market people wishing to can integrate interculturality into their normal working lives

Employment campaign with and for migrants Development Partnership as essential basis ALBuM stands for... potential-oriented services sharing rights and responsibilities equally in tandem projects intercultural teams and intercultural learning continual improvement supplementary activities to sensitise people to the underlying issues

Employment campaign with and for migrants Final remarks network represents qualitative progress on job market and employment policies in Hannover target groups are reached participating institutions themselves develop through the intercultural dialogue process network increasingly acquires weight and importance as a player in the city political debate.

Employment campaign with and for migrants Thank you very much for your attention Now the time for questions You find more: (sorry, only in german)