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MitSprache - Integration through language support for new immigrants

MitSprache is a module of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Bonn, offered by the Department of Intercultural Communication and Multilingualism Research in cooperation with the Caritas Association for the City of Bonn. The module was developed in 2016 for students of the Faculty of Humanities. Due to the great demand from students and the support of the Faculty of Humanities, the University Staff Office for Equal Opportunities and Diversity, the Bonn Caritas Association and other cooperation partners, the module can be now taken by students from all faculties from the summer semester of 2021 on.

News

In August and September 2023, the module will be offered as a compact seminar in presence on the following dates:

  • Friday, 08/18 from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
  • Saturday, 08/19 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  • Friday, 08/25 from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
  • Saturday, 08/26 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  • Friday, 09/01 from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
  • Saturday, 09/02 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.


These meetings serve as an exchange of experiences for former participants of the module. The meetings also offers students the opportunity to further educate themselves in the areas of German as a second language and the topics of flight and migration. For registrations please contact andreas.fischer@uni-bonn.de.

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Aims and target group

The MitSprache module is aimed at Bonn students who would like to qualify as volunteers for language support, as well as newly immigrated people who are interested in studying or job training in Germany.

The aims of the module are:

  • To qualify students as volunteer language tutors, in which they acquire knowledge and skills on the situation of new immigrants in Germany and support them in learning German as a second language under the purpose of "Service Learning".
  • To facilitate encounters and exchanges between students and new immigrants who are interested in studying or vocational training.

Content and structure of the module

The module consists of a seminar unit and a practical unit. In the seminar unit, the students acquire basic language-didactic knowledge in the area of "German as a second language" as well as socio-cultural background knowledge on the topics of migration and flight. In cooperation with new immigrants, they work together on the topics of study, training and career and are also sensitised to dealing with stereotypes and prejudices. The subsequent practical unit serves to put the skills acquired in the seminar into practice in the form of voluntary work. This can take place either at the Caritas Association of the City of Bonn or at another welfare organisation or non-profit initiative.

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Current partner organisations:

  • Caritas Association for the City of Bonn e.V.

  • Training instead of deportation e.V.

  • StartStudy Bonn

  • International Affairs Department of the University of Bonn

  • Office for Equal Opportunities and Diversity at the University of Bonn

  • Coordination Office for Service Learning at the University of Bonn

Press

Contact person:

Mr. Andreas Fischer (he/him)

Coordinator for the programme "MitSprache – Integration through language support for new immigrants."

Address:

Dekanat der Philosophischen Fakultät
Referat für Studium und Lehre
Rabinstr. 8
53111 Bonn