Success Stories

Chit-Chat-Club

Goal: To create an easily accessible opportunity for exchange and networking between immigrants and long-established residents, in order to promote informal interaction and good coexistence.

Goal: To match local residents with immigrants who have similar interests, in order to support them in their initial orientation and to promote linguistic and socio-cultural exchange.

Regular buddy meetings | Monthly community activities | Program expansion through supplementary language courses

Goal: To empower women with a migration background to see themselves as active members of society, to involve and participate, in order to counteract information mismatches.

Goal: To bring together the two target groups, migrants and senior citizens, and to create space for intergenerational dialogue and community strengthening.

Workshops on respectful coexistence, dealing with discrimination, intergenerational and intercultural learning
Raising awareness for respectful coexistence in diversity

Goal: To establish a Europe-wide network for reflecting on individual migration stories
Focus groups in Finland, Iceland and Austria with participants aged between 18 and 30, living in Finland, Iceland, Austria and North Macedonia, to reflect on their own flight and migration history and the welcoming culture.
Competence development and project development for solution development, resilience building and intercultural dialogue

Goal: To use language for networking, to highlight the diversity of the Griesviertel neighborhood and to organize joint leisure and learning activities.
Community work together with the Neighborhoods Office
Raising awareness of the diversity and different interests of the Griesviertel district through activities
Supporting and encouraging people from the neighborhood in implementing their ideas

Goal: To train multipliers to create inclusive access to business education and to strengthen the entrepreneurial spirit of disadvantaged women.
Non-formal training courses, knowledge building and discussion on entrepreneurship
Soft skills such as intercultural communication, interactive methods, networking, and creativity

Goal: Community gardens should not only beautify the streetscape, but also become places for meeting, shared activity and non-formal learning centers for democratic participation.
Gardeners are organizing to become a community center.
Workshops on gardening, sustainability, teamwork, team organization and democratic thinking as a basis for collaboration in diversity
Community gardening is combined with community activities.
Introduction and training for multipliers:
Training material for community gardeners:

Objectives: To focus on migration-specific diversity and marginalized perspectives, and to present data, facts, experiences and solutions for dealing with them and to position them in society.
To give civil society the opportunity to exchange ideas, network, educate themselves and ask questions openly.
To offer people with a migration background a platform to act as a voice for their community and for their own needs and issues, as well as to serve as role models and to demonstrate that it is essential for a future-proof society and organizations to actively work towards a less discriminatory approach.