"Developing integration together"
In Offenbach, integration is considered one of the most important prerequisites for a good future for the city. This has been a declared political goal for many years. The Integration Competence Team has therefore been meeting since 2007 to initiate changes and implement improvements to integration in Offenbach. The Integration Competence Team is made up of self-organizations of migrants and the responsible representatives of the most important institutions in Offenbach.
Each of the selected participants has accompanied the integration process in Offenbach critically and with commitment over the past few years. All participants are well aware of the existing challenges in Offenbach.
Under the leadership of Martin Wilhelm, Head of the Department of Integration, and Abdelkader Rafoud, Chairman of the Foreigners' Advisory Council, the group of experts has taken a critical look at the current situation and formulated proposals for future integration policy.
In the meantime, the experts have included numerous topics in their program and dealt with them. The topics covered so far range from training and applying for apprenticeships and starting a career to language support, childcare and parental work, the environment and intercultural openness in administration, as well as the topics of preventive medical check-ups for children, school entry examinations and the dangers of addiction in the field of health.
The members of the "Integration Competence Team"
- Department III, City Councillor Martin Wilhelm
- Foreigners' Advisory Council, Chairman, Abdelkader Rafoud
- Greek Parents' Association
- Greek community in Offenbach/M. and surrounding area e.V.
- Bangla Ischtyle
- Bulgarians in Offenbach e.V.
- Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat e.V.
- Binodon Bangla e.V.
- Gurdwara Guru Nanak Darbar e.V.
- Jewish Community Offenbach
- Kurdish Community Rhine-Main
- Polisportiva "Italsud" Offenbach 1971 e.V.
- Islamic community Mevlana Mosque
- Turkish-German Friendship Association e. V.
- Bosnian Cultural Center Offenbach a.M. e.V.
- Serbian Cultural Center SKC Offenbach e.V.
- Promotion and Integrative Center e.V. (F.I.Z.)
- Friendship Association Turkey in OF and Surroundings e.V.
- Turkish-Islamic Cultural Association e. V.
- Moroccan Islamic Cultural Center
- Turkish German Club e.V.
- Unity of Islam e.V.
- Alevi Community Offenbach am Main and Surroundings e. V.
- Romanian Orthodox Church Community
- Navenda Cand a Kurd e.V.
- German Moroccan Cultural Association
- Croatian Democratic Community
- Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastery
- Romanian community in the Rhine-Main region
- Cooperative for integration in Germany
- Yezidi community Offenbach am Main e.V.
- VAIR e.V.
- South East Hesse Police Headquarters, Migration Officer, Hüsamettin Eryilmaz
- Social urban development and integration, integration officer,
Luigi Masala - Social urban development and integration, WIR-Vielfaltszentrum,
Pia Kraft and Simone Lechner