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Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (Berlin)
16. Neighbourhood Management (NM)

16.1. Short description The innovative core of NM is combining spatial and urban planning with sectorial policy interventions in a defined territory (see above). Hence, the background approach of NM is mainly about networking among stakeholders and the pooling of local resources within districts with special development needs. The project is financed by a federal-regional…

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Benjamin Ewert and Adalbert Evers (Justus-Liebig University Giessen)

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Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (Berlin)
17. Princesses Gardens

17.1. Short description The so-called Princesses Gardens in Kreuzberg offer a complex project that attempts to change people’s mind sets on a broader scale than most of the pragmatic solutions in the realm of welfare. As a part of the international urban gardening movement, the highly attractive project pursues an alternative approach how to use…

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Benjamin Ewert and Adalbert Evers (Justus-Liebig University Giessen)

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Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (Berlin)
18. Job Explorer

18.1. Short description The “Job Explorer” project aims to create new ways of job orientation for youngsters by paving personal links between pupils and employers instead of between schools and companies. Hence, the project claims to establish a lasting, trust-based dialogue between tomorrow’s jobseekers and potential employers that could be regarded as innovative. A multiphase…

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Benjamin Ewert and Adalbert Evers (Justus-Liebig University Giessen)

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Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (Berlin)
19. Kreuzberg Acts

19.1. Short description “Kreuzberg Acts – entrepreneurship in the district” pursues a twofold approach towards social inclusion. On the one hand, jobseekers and local entrepreneurs, half of them migrants, receive comprehensive consultancy to explore their entrepreneurial potentials or rather stabilise their business. For instance, those interested in founding a start-up are coached by local mentors…

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Benjamin Ewert and Adalbert Evers (Justus-Liebig University Giessen)

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Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (Berlin)
20. Neighbourhood Mothers

20.1. Short description The project Neighbourhood Mothers bridges gaps within a multicultural but fragmented society, both pragmatically and symbolically. Based on blueprints from the Netherlands and other German cities, the innovative approach is strictly resource-oriented and neighbourhood-related. Basically, the project developed further the idea of intercultural mediators and mentors helping immigrant families with educational and…

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Benjamin Ewert and Adalbert Evers (Justus-Liebig University Giessen)

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Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (Berlin)
21. Family Centres

21.1. Short description Family centres are a complementary offer to kindergartens and day-care institutions pursuing a more holistic approach. Their innovative feature is to empower families by strengthening their competences instead of providing merely services to them that claim to substitute what the respective families cannot provide. This complementary and holistic approach of “family-minded services”…

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Benjamin Ewert and Adalbert Evers (Justus-Liebig University Giessen)

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Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (Berlin)
Friedrichshain – Kreuzberg (Berlin) – Conclusions

The description of innovations presented here can be discussed and developed further in various directions and within various frameworks. Three possible ways – all to be dealt with in the WILCO project – will be sketched here in the conclusive remarks. Social services research: innovations as illustrative examples for a new generation of social services…

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Benjamin Ewert and Adalbert Evers (Justus-Liebig University Giessen)

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Malmö
61. Områdesprogrammet in Holma-Kroksbäck

61.1. Short description We visited Holma-Kroksbäck, in the district of Hyllie, where the Head of the Department of Integration and Sustainable Development, is responsible for the programme, together with the programme coordinator. They are, together with a secretary and a business consultant, employed to work on Områdesprogrammet. Områdesprogrammet in Holma-Kroksbäck is not directed at the…

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Anna Carrigan and Marie Nordfeldt Ersta Sköndal University College (Sweden)

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Malmö
62. Coompanion Inkubatorn

62.1. Short description Coompanion is an organisation providing advice and education to people in the process of starting their own business. Coompanion is a national organisation. However, the national office is more of a service office for the relatively independent regional organisations (interview 3). Before the Incubator initiative the Coompanion Skåne (Skåne being a county…

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Anna Carrigan and Marie Nordfeldt Ersta Sköndal University College (Sweden)

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Malmö
63. Yalla Trappan, Rosengård

63.1. Short description Yalla Trappan is a labour-integrated social enterprise. The general aim of Yalla Trappan is to provide work for women who would otherwise have severe difficulties entering the labour market. Yalla Trappan is organised by integrating permanently employed workers with workers who are there on an internship, through the social services administration. Yalla…

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Anna Carrigan and Marie Nordfeldt Ersta Sköndal University College (Sweden)

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