District-wide projects

KOMM-IN NRW – innovation in municipal integration work – funded by the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia

The “KOMM-IN NRW” programme of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia gives financial support to municipalities so that they can offer better services and infrastructures to persons emigrating to Germany.

The main purpose of the programme is the further strategic development of the administrative infrastructures of municipalities in cooperation with local organisations.

The aim of such financial support, as the parallel support of an organisational development process, is to improve the facilities, infrastructures and processes involved in welcoming immigrants who have just arrived into the communities and to integrate those who already live here and work towards making these facilities, infrastructures and processes permanently more efficient and effective in the future through innovation.

Funding is aimed to helping communities to integrate immigrants.

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KOMM-IN NRW – projects in the Mettmann district

“MiA IV- Mettmann district job integration” -

practical work experience for young adults from immigrant families

This working title stands for a very special kind of integration project.

Training leading to a vocational qualification is provided at Ratingen vocational-training college (Berufskolleg Ratingen) five days a week for at least six hours a day. To prepare them for the type of situations that can arise when seeking training or employment, young persons are given continuous training in the form of intensive job coaching, for example, training for job applications using video recording, preparing for job interviews, improving German-language skills and mathematics for recruitment tests.

These courses are particularly aimed at improving social and cultural skills. For those participants especially who have to cope with many difficult situations in their private lives, qualifications of this kind can may give them give them enough personal and social stability so as to maintain their ability to work. It may also motivate them to seek further qualifications, training or employment.

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The district-wide “C.A.P.E.” project

enables unemployed women with health impairments to become more settled and obtain qualifications.
The C.A.P.E. project promises work, opportunities and experience to the twenty unemployed women with health impairments taking part in this district-wide labour-market project.
At the instigation of the Mettmann district – integration sector – and of the department responsible for “women and work”, a number of different Catholic social-service organisations (for example, SkF Langenfeld, SkF Ratingen, SKFM Velbert and SKFM Heiligenhaus coordinated by the association of Catholic social-service organisations for the district of Mettmann), have joined forces to help unemployed women to enter the primary labour market step-by-step.
The project receives funding from the European Social Fund, Arge-ME-aktiv working group and Mettmann district authority.

You can find out more here: C.A.P.E. project

ProMMi – Training project for girls from immigrant families

(Pro(jekt) Mädchen mit Migrationshintergrund in Ausbildung)

The fact that only 41% of young girls from immigrant families in Germany receive training gives cause for concern. This training project for young girls from immigrant families (ProMMi – Pro(jekt) Mädchen mit Migrationshintergrund in Ausbildung!) was the result of a detailed examination of the problem by the Mettmann district in 2006 and 2007.

The aim of the project was to encourage girls of Islamic faith from immigrant families to take part in dual vocational-training courses and to create the permanent structure of cooperation at institutional and practical levels required for the same.
There are reasons of a personal, social and institutional nature why so few girls from immigrant families undergo training.
The project therefore sets itself the task of setting priorities in this area.

Girls in the target group from Class 8 onwards (aged 13-14 years) in secondary schools in the towns of Erkrath, Haan, Mettmann, Monheim am Rhein, Velbert and Wülfrath are given career advice, help and support.

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ProMMi – training project for girls from immigrant families