Otto Benecke Foundation

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Otto Benecke Foundation V.
(OBS)
purpose Integration and education and training of young migrants
Chair: Lothar Theodor Lemper
Establishment date: 1965
Seat : Bonn, Germany
Website: www.obs-ev.de

The Otto Benecke Foundation eV (OBS) is a non-profit and politically neutral association based in Bonn , Cologne and Berlin. It was founded in 1965 by the member associations of what was then the German Federal Student Association and named after the former student leader Otto Benecke . The forerunner institution of the OBS was the social welfare office of the Bundesstudentenring, which had looked after refugee students from the GDR and Eastern Europe since 1953 .

tasks

The OBS carries out projects for the integration of immigrants, formerly mainly GDR refugees and ethnic German repatriates , today increasingly refugees from civil war and other crisis areas. It supports immigrant university applicants, students and immigrant academics in accordance with the guidelines of the “University Guarantee Fund” (RL-GF-H) through language courses, Abitur courses and seminars. It helps in the search for internships, apprenticeships and jobs.

The OBS is involved in projects that support initiatives for social integration and initiate joint action by immigrant and local youth and adults. It supports the advanced and advanced training of migrant organizations. Internationally, OBS is particularly committed to the concerns of ethnic minorities in Central and Eastern European countries by promoting the exchange of experts and youth.

The OBS bundles conceptual impulses of integration policy at the "FORUM MIGRATION" which it has been running since 1995: every year a current topic from the field of migration and integration is dealt with and discussed from different perspectives. The central contributions to each annual conference are published in a separate series “Contributions from the Academy for Migration and Integration”.

From 1978 to 1982 and after an interruption from 1985 to 2009, the OBS carried out the so-called "Academic Program", which was transferred - initially gradually - from 2006 to September 30, 2013 into the so-called "AQUA program", which was implemented by the Federal Ministry for education and research .

From October 2012 to April 2017, the foundation was a partner in the German Doctor Exchange GmbH, which it co-founded , which aims to prepare doctors from abroad for professional activity in Germany. The managing directors of this GmbH were Lothar Theodor Lemper and Swjatoslaw Aksamitowski . In May 2017, Allgeier SE took over all shares and integrated the company into the Allgeier Experts division.

Projects

I. Academic immigrants

  • University guarantee fund
    • With the federal program Guarantee Fund University, the OBS supports young immigrants who are entitled to stay in Germany, who are preparing for university studies or want to continue their studies - through measures such as preparatory intensive language courses on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) , Courses to obtain the German technical college or university entrance qualification, courses to learn the English language or seminars that prepare for the study and / or special application and examination dates.
  • Seminar program
    • The preparatory offers of the "seminar program" are linked to the university guarantee fund: they offer orientation and information for entry into studies and the world of work. Courses on topics such as an introduction to the German economic system, fit for studies, CAD courses to prepare for engineering courses, IT courses for students, exam preparation and test procedures, application training, etc.
  • University program
    • At over 25 universities all over Germany, student supervisory teams advise and support young immigrants as part of the “university program”.

II. Career prospects

  • GidA - "Together in training": With the model project "Together in training", the OBS prepares refugee and disadvantaged young people for training in the trade in cooperation with the craft training centers in Duisburg, Recklinghausen and Gera
  • As part of the IQ Netzwerk NRW , immigrant business economists and engineers receive specialist knowledge of German and general qualifications such as presentation techniques and project work.
  • As part of the IQ Network Berlin, the Central Initial Contact Point for Recognition (ZEA) advises on the recognition of professional qualifications acquired abroad and supports the search for qualifications in the context of the recognition process. Multipliers from the labor administration are trained and advised.
  • KAUSA Service Center Bonn / Rhein-Sieg: The aim of the KAUSA Service Center Bonn / Rhein-Sieg, sponsored by OBS, is to attract more entrepreneurs for dual vocational training. Young people with an immigrant background are also to be won over to dual training and their parents are to be supported in the professional orientation of their children.

III. Social togetherness

  • With the JUMPin.NRW and YOU.PA projects , volunteer young people with a history of migration receive qualification and networking opportunities .
  • Juroma : The aim of the already completed project was to mobilize immigrant young Roma to take advantage of opportunities to develop sustainable life prospects in Germany. The social environment was made aware of the need to question and overcome prejudice and resentment towards Roma.
  • Ma'an - Birligte - Together: These OBS projects, as part of the federal program Living Democracy! (BMFSFJ), are intended to motivate and mobilize Muslim peer groups in particular to oppose tendencies towards radicalization among young people.
  • PARTICIPATE - Codetermination and personal responsibility of the refugees : The project supports the self-administration of refugees in refugee accommodation . The model project will live under the federal democracy program! funded by the BMFSFJ.
  • Migrant women in local politics : Qualification of migrant women to work in organizations and parties at the local level (Federal Agency for Civic Education).

IV. Thinking about integration

  • Forum Migration: The OBS bundles conceptual impulses of integration policy at the "FORUM MIGRATION", which it has carried out since 1995: every year a current topic from the field of migration and integration is dealt with and discussed from different perspectives. The central contributions to each annual conference are published in a separate series “Contributions from the Academy for Migration and Integration”.
  • Series of publications

financing

The largest donor is the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth. Other project sponsors are the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy , the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the European Social Fund, the Federal Agency for Civic Education and several state ministries such as B. the Ministry for Children, Family, Refugees and Integration North Rhine-Westphalia .

At the beginning of the 1990s - at the height of the resettlement influx - the OBS budget was around 250 million DM annually, in 2007 € 25.5 million and in 2017 € 23.8 million.

In 1991 the Federal Audit Office complained that the expenditure was "concealed by barely comprehensible postings" and found that "the budget management of the Otto Benecke Foundation was confusing". In particular, objections were made to payments to the "Society for the Promotion of Job-Specific Training" (GfbA eV), which was founded by members of the OBS and then commissioned by the OBS to carry out the entire language course program from the GfbA cash register. OBS and GfbA's financial model was also controversial within OBS, criticized OBS member Peter Nölle, saying that OBS had degenerated into a "water heater for money" that "ended up somewhere". The identified deficiencies were corrected and the eligibility of the association was ensured.

organization

Until July 2014, the executive chairman was the CDU politician Lothar Theodor Lemper , and his deputy was the SPD politician Wolfgang Roth . On August 1, 2014, Lemper moved to the new office of Chairman of the Board of Management; The SPD politician Jochen Welt was appointed managing director . Lothar Theodor Lemper has been Managing Director again since 2017. His deputy is the SPD politician Dagmar Ziegler , Member of the Bundestag.

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees is the former Governing Mayor of Berlin Eberhard Diepgen (CDU).

President

Advisory Board

The content of the programs and projects is accompanied by an interdisciplinary, scientific advisory board:

Board of Trustees

The board of trustees supports and advises the association in fulfilling its tasks. It is composed of knowledgeable people who are dedicated to the tasks of the association and who are not allowed to belong to the board.

Chair of the Board of Trustees

Other current members of the Board of Trustees (as of 3/2018)

literature

  • Marianne Krüger-Potratz (Ed.): Foundation for integration! 50 years of OBS - commitment to qualification and participation . V&R unipress, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8471-0397-4 .
  • Ursula Boos-Nünning (Ed.): Build educational bridges! Strengthening the educational opportunities of children with a migration background - A handbook for parenting education . Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-8309-3380-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guidelines "Guarantee Fund - University Sector - (RL-GF-H)" ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 31, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verwaltungsrechte-im-internet.de
  2. ↑ OBS eV: Offers and project sponsors ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.obs-ev.de
  3. ↑ OBS eV: Forum Migration ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.obs-ev.de
  4. ↑ OBS eV: Series of publications by the Academy for Migration and Integration ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.obs-ev.de
  5. ↑ "AQUA program - Federal Ministry of Education and Research" ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 20, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmbf.de
  6. ↑ Federal Ministry of Education and Research, funding announcement for the program Academics Qualify for the Labor Market (AQUA) from February 20, 2013, BAnz AT March 7 , 2013 B8
  7. ↑ German Doctor Exchance: Contact person ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 31, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.germandoc.com
  8. ↑ Allgeier SE: German Doctor Exchange GmbH becomes a 100% subsidiary of Allgeier SE. Retrieved March 2, 2018 .
  9. ^ OBS .V .: 22nd Forum Migration. Retrieved March 2, 2018 .
  10. ^ German Bundestag: Answer of the federal government to the minor question of the deputies Cornelia Hirsch, Sevim Dag ˘ delen, Petra Sitte, Volker Schneider (Saarbrücken) and the parliamentary group DIE LINKE. Printed matter 16/10259 . October 2, 2008, p. 6-7 .
  11. ^ Oeckl: Pocket book of public life . Festland Verlag, 2018, p. 911 .
  12. ↑ a b Wolfgang Hoffmann: Control is better , In: DIE ZEIT No. 46 of November 6, 1992, accessed on March 31, 2014.
  13. ↑ a b Gert Nowakowski: Benecke Foundation: Rolling Heads , In: Die Tageszeitung from October 19, 1991, accessed on May 29, 2019.
  14. ↑ a b Host plant in the DER SPIEGEL hereditary yard No. 28 of July 6, 1992, accessed on August 25, 2014.