For several weeks, the MIT trainings have been running online now. If the Corona situation should improve, trainings in presence will be possible and are thought of. Appropriate large halls and conference centers are inquired. There is close coordination with local and regional authorities on face-to-face training. The MIT modules include training sessions on how to become active locally and regionally as a third-country national or as an immigrant citizen. The possibility of founding associations oneself met with particular interest. Another interest was talks and visits to parliamentary groups of the local council in Filderstadt and Stuttgart as well as to the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg. All of this is now being prepared for the third phase of the project, which will start after the MIT training sessions are completed. Ideas for associations include:

  • Association to help refugees (third-country nationals) to recognize degrees earned abroad and knowledge and skills acquired abroad
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  • Association for homework assistance for children and young people from immigrant families
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  • Association for the cultivation of Syrian culture in Filderstadt
  • Association for the promotion of spoken and written German for children and adolescents
  • Association for the promotion of the cultivation of the Arabic language among children and adolescents, especially the written Arabic language
  • Association for hair care for women wearing headscarves
  • Association refugees help refugees
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During the MIT training sessions, there was information on the importance of an association’s statutes and initial exercises in developing statutes for the aforementioned association ideas. In the third phase of the project, the participants will be professionally advised to then actively implement their ideas for associations. In addition, job shadowing in parliamentary groups, in advisory councils and in the state parliament is in preparation.