Asia

YFU - German Youth For Understanding Committee

Name of the Organization
YFU - German Youth For Understanding Committee
Department/Institute
Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Contact

Oberaltenallee 6
22081 Hamburg
Germany

Telephone
+49 40 227002 -0
E-Mail
info[at]yfu.de
Description of the Organization

YFU is a non-profit student exchange program. They place students in over 30 countries and accommodate students from over 40 countries in Germany. For one year, students live with a host family and attend school.

Northumbria University Newcastle

Name of the Organization
Northumbria University Newcastle
Department/Institute
Sociology and Criminology Department
Contact

Sutherland Building
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NE1 8ST
United Kingdom

Telephone
+44 (191) 232 6002
E-Mail
matt.smith[at]northumbria.ac.uk

NLQ - Niedersächsisches Landesinstitut für schulische Qualitätsentwicklung

Name of the Organization
NLQ - Niedersächsisches Landesinstitut für schulische Qualitätsentwicklung
Contact

Richthofenstraße 29
31137 Hildesheim
NI
Germany

Telephone
+49 5121 1695289
Fax
+49 5121 1695296
Description of the Organization

The Institution is responsible for all matters of teachers education and qualification, for school development and evaluation and for the education internet sever. The topic of intercutural education include also global learning and international schoolpartnerships, special with countries in the south.

Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

Name of the Organization
Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Department/Institute
Fachbereich 2: Informatik & Ingenieurwissenschaften
Contact

Nibelungenplatz 1
60318 Frankfurt
Germany

Telephone
+49 69 1533-0
E-Mail
post[at]fra-uas.de
Description of the Organization
  • Coordination with the Vietnamese German University (VGU) in Vietnam
  • in contact with European partner universities

Marie Schlei Association

Name of the Organization
Marie Schlei Association
Contact

Grootiushof
Grootsruhe 4
20537 Hamburg
Germany

Telephone
+49 40 41496992
E-Mail
marie-schlei-verein[at]t-online.de
Description of the Organization

Help for Women in Africa, Asia and Latin America

The Marie Schlei Association was founded in 1984 in memory of Marie Schlei, the former German Minister for Development Policy. According to the statutes of this non-profit association, its objectives are "to promote cooperation with poor women, women's groups and organizations, to help educate and train women, to provide information about the causes of poverty and injustice and to promote equal rights for women. We inform the public about the situation of these women in order to raise and increase awareness as well as a feeling of responsibility and the willingness to help the women and therefore all people in the developing countries."

The Marie Schlei Association encourages women to create self-help projects. In the past two decades, about 300 projects have been successfully carried out in 45 different countries, from Argentina to Zimbabwe. All projects were planned and realized by local women's groups and organizations. In order for projects to be successful, the following criteria must be met: time schedules and curricula have to be adjusted to the women's daily routine. The projects have to be effective and applicable to everyday life in order to make the additional work bearable for the women. Cooking, child care, household chores, getting water and heating material – project work adds additional work to their daily responsibilities. Nevertheless, these women want and need these projects, since they offer them the only possible access to education and training and thus to their own income. Our female partners are responsible for "their projects and the management of the material required. The solidarity among women they experience also creates an atmosphere of partnership and mutual cooperation. The Marie Schlei Association works for equal opportunities and justice.

AAI - Afro-Asiatisches Institut Salzburg

Name of the Organization
AAI - Afro-Asiatisches Institut Salzburg
Contact

Wiener Philharmoniker Gasse 2
5020 Salzburg
Austria

Telephone
+43 662 84141311
E-Mail
office[at]aai-salzburg.at
Description of the Organization

The Afro-Asian Institute Salzburg (AAI) is a non-profit organisation with close ties to the university of Salzburg. It is financed by the public funds and the Catholic Church. The aims of the AAI are to provide educational services on development policy, to enable intercultural encounters and to promote interfaith dialogue.
The AAI is a meeting place for different cultures and religions. We show different global contexts through a varied educational and cultural program in order to raise awareness of injustices and set out development policy issues and its risks in the context of globalization. Affected individuals, as well as experts from the global South have an opportunity in our organization to take the floor. Within the framework of the AAI scholarship program, students from African, Asian and Latin American countries receive financial support, as well as a personal accompaniment and take part in our educational program.

Partnerregionen

RAA - regional centers for foreigners' concerns, youth work and schools in the German state of Brandenburg

Name of the Organization
RAA - regional centers for foreigners' concerns, youth work and schools in the German state of Brandenburg
Department/Institute
Globales Lernen
Contact

Zum Jagenstein 1
14478 Potsdam
BB
Germany

Telephone
+49 331 74780-31
E-Mail
globaleslernen[at]raa-brandenburg.de
Description of the Organization

RAA - regional centers for foreigners' concerns, youth work and schools in the German state of Brandenburg - is a non-profit organization based in Potsdam. We manage six "Regionale Büros für Integration und Toleranz" (BIT) (regional offices for integration and open-mindedness) and four other offices as well as regional and local projects. In 2004, we established "Globales Lernen/Entwicklungszusammenarbeit" (global learning and cooperation for development). For us, global learning is about raising awareness of the world as a whole, of interrelations between North and South, and about relating our everyday life to the lives of people in developing countries. RAA is involved in an enormous variety of development-policy projects. We offer working groups, workshops, and training for teaching staff, and support schools in organizing workshops for students. Long-term projects include supporting school partnerships between schools in Brandenburg and schools in Senegal, Zanzibar/Tanzania and Angola, as well as smaller-scale initiatives. "Begegnungen mit Sansibar" (meeting Zanzibar) is a project that combines education and cooperation for development. Since 1992, more than 160 adolescents and teachers have been given the chance to gain deep insights into another culture and to help promote interactions between Germany and Tanzania, and more will follow. The project in Zanzibar encourages participants to closely examine both the foreign culture and their own. It includes such diverse activities as the building of classrooms, theater projects, thematic research, workshops, seminars and continuous education for teachers. In Germany, the results of this work are available as educational materials, thus enabling our partners from Tanzania to present their life and their views in Brandenburg. In addition, RAA is in charge of organizing and holding the "Brandenburger entwicklungspolitische Bildungs- und Informationstage" (Brandenburg educational and informational days on development aid) as well as the education program of the 'Berlin Import Shop' fair.

IWM - Institute for Global Church and Mission

Name of the Organization
IWM - Institute for Global Church and Mission
Additional info
Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen
Contact

Offenbacher Landstraße 224
60599 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Telephone
+49 69 6061-706
E-Mail
sekr[at]iwm.sankt-georgen.de
Description of the Organization

The Institute for Global Church and Mission (IWM) is a missiological institute of the German Bishops' Conference at the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt/Main.