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Competence Centres of the Network IQ

Besides consulting and supporting the regional networks, the competence centres are responsible for the quality of activities and services in their respective field. Testing innovative approaches to integration is also one of their tasks. The competence centres combine practical experience and academic expertise. They also provide recommendations to decision makers in politics, business and public administration at the federal level.

Competence Centre for Counselling and Job Training of Migrants

The IQ Competence Centre for Counselling and Job Training of Migrants  supports and advises members of the Network IQ – Integration through Qualification in two areas: counselling on credential recognition and job training as well as bridge training schemes in the context of the Recognition Act. The competence centre disseminates results and findings from these areas to decision-makers in politics, administration, business and the expert community.

The specific foci of work of the IQ Competence Centre for Counselling and Job Training of Migrants are:

  • Promoting the professionalization of IQ advisers and trainers by offering training courses, information material and networking events that facilitate the exchange of practical experience

  • Supporting the quality development and quality control of training schemes and advice

  • Continuously developing and providing concepts, processes, instruments and practical guidelines

  • Developing virtual bridge training schemes for academics

  • Promoting thematic and interdisciplinary exchange within the Network IQ by organizing conferences, expert meetings, etc.

  • Monitoring of counselling activities and job training schemes offered by IQ

  • Preparing and disseminating monitoring results - together with research findings – to politics, administration, business and the expert community.

Competence Centre for Fair Integration

With the start of the new funding phase of the IQ Network (2023-2025), the Competence Centre for Fair Integration (“Fachstelle Faire Integration”) is responsible for the coordination and support of the Fair Integration advice centres. Thus, the Competence Centre for Fair Integration replaces the structure of the previous funding phase "Support Fair Integration" (2019-2022).

Fair Integration is a nationwide counselling service on social and labour law issues for refugees and other migrants from outside of Europe (third-country nationals). The advice centres cover labour and social law issues directly related to the employment relationship, e.g.: Wages, working hours, leave, dismissal, health insurance and many more. The advice centres advice and inform refugees and migrants and are supporting in doing so by the Competence Centre for Fair Integration.

The Competence Centre for Fair Integration is managed by the IQ Consult gGmbH, a 100% affiliated company of the DGB Bildungswerk BUND e.V.

More information on the Competence Centre for Fair Integration is available here.

Competence Centre for Immigration and Integration

The Competence Centre for Immigration works at the intersection between migration research and practical integration work. We mainly work at the institutional level, cooperating with other stakeholders and projects in the thematic area of recent immigration. Our goal is to foster the dialogue and provide practitioners and policy makers – especially within the Network IQ – with recommendations, instruments, methods and concepts to improve the integration of migrants and refugees into education and the labour market.

More information on the Competence Centre for Immigration is available here.

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