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The social institute Kommende Dortmund [from Latin commendare "entrust, hand over"] is the social institute and an educational institution of the Archdiocese of Paderborn . It sees itself as the "interface between church and world" to promote common sense and justice in accordance with Catholic social teaching in all areas of society. The institute has existed since 1949 and is housed in the Kommende Brackel in Dortmund , a former seat of the Teutonic Order .

Objectives and areas of responsibility

The social institute Kommende Dortmund tries to sensitize people in all areas of life to the ideal of justice of the Catholic social teaching. It is aimed at all areas of society. The work of the coming is divided into six departments:

Social ethics

The focus of the “Social Ethics” task area is the imparting of knowledge about Catholic social teaching as well as basic political and economic knowledge. The seminars, training courses and projects are often aimed at young people to them in their individuality and to strengthen them to social commitment to motivate. However, advanced training courses and specialist conferences for social professions also take place in cooperation with Caritas .

World of work and social policy

The social institute Kommende Dortmund organizes the binding dialogue between the workforce and company management on current issues of everyday work, work design and work organization. To this end, seminars for works councils , top-level discussions with the church and trade unions, and moderated discussions are held. This department is in the process of being rebuilt after restructuring.

Vocational education

The subject area “Vocational Education” focuses on the further training of trainees and schoolchildren, e. B. in project weeks in cooperation with schools. This also includes seminars on professional ethics for nursing professions, which deal with the confrontation with suffering, illness and death. The aim is to strengthen individual and social skills.

Business ethics

The aim of the social institute is to make business ethical approaches and claims of Christian social ethics suitable for everyday business. Further training, seminars and specialist conferences strengthen the competencies of managers, experts and entrepreneurs so that they can meet their responsibility towards employees and society. The entrepreneur's day initiated by the coming one cultivates and promotes the dialogue between executives on entrepreneurially and socially relevant topics. Speakers in recent years have included Cem Özdemir and Archbishop Cardinal Dr. Reinhard Marx . In this context, the Kommende, in cooperation with the Bank für Kirche and Caritas eG Paderborn, also awards the entrepreneur award "successfully sustainable".

Employee Representation (MAV)

The coming gives the employee representatives knowledge about the basics of co-determination and the employment contracts with church employers. Through seminars and courses on labor law of the so-called third way , on mediation and specialist topics, she helps the representatives to make full use of their function and their right to have a say. In addition to specialist knowledge, the seminars offer space for dealing with the core topics of Catholic social teaching.

Church employers

The social institute Kommende Dortmund also organizes seminars for employers . The training courses convey the latest information on legal issues relating to dismissal and introduce you to the options for creating new working time models. The employers should be supported in introducing performance-oriented remuneration systems and dealing professionally with conflicts with the MAV.

Political education

In its youth and adult education as well as in the scientific discourse, the Social Institute Kommende Dortmund participates in the discussion on issues such as data protection, the European Union, minimum wages, unconditional basic income, (legal) populism. The care of family members and missing daycare places are also part of political education at the social institute. The social institute has a focus on religious-sensitive political education in extracurricular political education with educationally disadvantaged young people. Another offer are the Politics Study Days, during which the Social Institute deals intensively with the political systems of different countries, the social situation of the populations, the economic development of the countries and their foreign policy attitudes.

activities

In addition to the events in the context of the departments, some activities under the umbrella of the Coming are particularly noteworthy:

Forum social ethics

The “Forum Social Ethics” is an initiative of young social ethicists. It serves as an exchange between young scientists and advanced students in the field of social ethics in German-speaking countries. Since 1990, the participants have been discussing the current state of their research for three days each year with thematic priorities. The articles appear together with other research results, dissertations and habilitation theses in the "Forum Sozialethik" series published by Aschendorff Verlag , Münster .

Social science working group

The Social Science Working Group is an advisory body on questions of economic and social policy for the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Paderborn . It also promotes the dialogue between Catholic social teaching and related disciplines. It includes renowned scientists from various disciplines who are appointed by the Archbishop every six years. The working group was founded in 1984 by the then rector of the Kommende Dortmund social institute, Cardinal Reinhard Marx .

Entrepreneur Prize the Coming One

Since 2008, the social institute Kommende Dortmund, together with the Bank for Church and Caritas eG Paderborn, has been awarding the entrepreneur award “successful sustainable” every two years . It honors companies that combine entrepreneurial action with ethical responsibility in an innovative way. The public appreciation is intended to highlight the performance and to give suggestions to other companies.

In 2018, Green IT Das Systemhaus GmbH from Dortmund prevailed among the applicants . The company aims to set up the most emission-free IT structures possible in companies. This would reduce customers' electricity consumption and CO 2 emissions by more than 30%. [14]

In 2016 the entrepreneur award was given to the textile company Mass Natur GmbH . The decisive factor for the award of this company is the comparatively high sense of responsibility for production and suppliers in the textile trade. This would also look at the extraction of raw materials, processing of raw materials and packaging. [14]

In 2014, the Kanne bakery from Lünen received the entrepreneur award for its future-oriented energy concept in an energy-intensive bakery industry, according to the awardees. In addition, responsible handling of food that is not consumed and overproduction, investments in environmental protection and regional purchasing from suppliers were further motivation for awarding the award to the company. [14]

In 2012, the Hering Group in Burbach (Siegerland) received an award for its comprehensive company health management, the “Hering-ZeitWertKonto” working life model, as well as its profit-sharing models for employees and effective environmental protection measures.

In 2010 SuperBioMarkt AG in Münster won the tender. The decisive factors were the measures to strengthen regional and organic agriculture and seasonal marketing, as well as the targeted selection of suppliers who employ people with disabilities, and the commitment in schools and kindergartens to a balanced diet.

In 2008, the first winner of the entrepreneurship award was OFTECH Oberflächentechnik GmbH, based in Troisdorf-Spich . It supports young people with poor academic performance comprehensively and specifically through annual internships and a company school program.

Social academy

The five-week social academy “Giving Europe a Soul” is an event for Eastern European seminarians and candidates for priesthood. In this training course future priests are introduced to Catholic social teaching against the background of the European unification process . The seminar enables the participants to actively shape the political, social and charitable commitment of their local church, the modernization of their countries and the European unification process. At the same time, the social academy serves as an opportunity for international encounters and cross-border networking. Cross-national reflection groups serve to secure results and transfer them to the situation in their home countries. The Social Academy is funded by the Dicastery for Holistic Human Development and the Catholic aid organization Renovabis .

At the beginning of August 2012, the social institute Kommende Dortmund organized an alumni congress in Ariccia , an Italian municipality in the province of Rome . Around 80 seminarians, diakonia and priests from a total of 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe were present. In the retreat house Casa Divin Maestro, church social teaching was discussed in the face of the latest developments in Europe. The subsequent alumni congress in Zakopane is considered to be the initial spark for the youth social movement “socioMovens. Giving Europe a Soul ”. In 2018 the third alumni congress of the Social Academy took place in Brussels under the title “Church in Europe - Culture. Identity. Solidarity. ”Instead. The focus here was on the role and responsibility of the Church for European unity.

Publications

The social institute Kommende Dortmund publishes the international magazine “ AmosInternational ” and is co-editor of the series “Management and Humanity in Health Care” and “Studies on Christian Social Ethics”, both published by Lit Verlag .

Amos International

The magazine " AmosInternational " deals with socio-ethical topics. It is published quarterly by Aschendorff Verlag and each issue is dedicated to a current topic. On the one hand, AmosInternational creates a forum for socio-ethical information, reflection and dialogue for scientists and adult educators. On the other hand, the newspaper provides actors in politics and society with a repertoire of scientifically founded and theologically responsible values ​​and convictions. The editors are the working group of German-speaking social ethicists, the Catholic Social Science Center and the Social Institute Kommende Dortmund.

Amos Business Conference

The Amos Business Conference is intended to give leading, but also future executives and decision-makers from areas such as business, politics, media and education space for interdisciplinary discussions. In these, basic Christian values ​​and ethical principles are conveyed against the background of the different contexts of the concrete shaping of the world and life in these areas. In seminars and conferences, the participants engage in a process of reflection on current topics and ethical issues. The dialogue forum encourages social leaders and decision-makers to bring family, faith and work into harmony and to incorporate religious values ​​into their respective corporate philosophy and practice.

beneVolens Foundation

"BeneVolens" is a church foundation with legal capacity of the Kommende Dortmund. It supports socially disadvantaged young people and promotes their development and social integration . The foundation established the "Association of Friends and Patrons of the Coming" on its 60th anniversary. Specific projects are the Social Academy , Addiction Prevention ( Fazenda da Esperança ), social seminars on Catholic social teaching for German and Eastern European students, violence prevention ( Gen Rosso ), the entrepreneurship seminar, business ethics in schools, a German-Polish student exchange and long-term internships.

socioMovens

The youth social network socioMovens, founded in 2014, gives schoolchildren from Central and Eastern Europe the opportunity to find out what they can contribute to a more just, peaceful and solidary world. In project weeks organized by prospective priests, the young people deal with a selected social or ecological challenge in their country. They describe the situation of their personal environment and then the topic is deepened in a solution-oriented manner. The focus here is on promoting the active participation of young people. In order to create a reference to the reality of their own life, they are made aware of the situation of those affected by educational exercises. Under the motto "Giving Europe a soul", key topics such as "neglect of children", "strengthening social awareness" and "poverty in my city" are dealt with.

In 2017 four national youth meetings were organized in Hungary, Romania, Poland and Slovakia in order to connect the participants of the project weeks in their countries. With the two international youth meetings in Berlin in 2015 (Cross Cultural Youth Meeting “world moving”) and in Budapest 2018 (Compact for Europe), the focus was on the international networking of young people and young adults as well as the leaders of the project weeks. 120 to 150 teenagers and young adults from six Central and Eastern European countries took part in each of the two major events.

Upcoming campus

The renovation in 2011 and eleven months of renovation work on the Kommende Dortmund until February 2018 created space for three more institutions in the Kommende Dortmund. The Institute for Religious Education and Media Work (IRUM), the Catholic Data Protection Center (KDSZ) and the Institute for Christian Social Studies are now housed in the Kommende Dortmund.

The location of the Institute for Religious Education and Media Work (IRUM) in the Kommende serves to promote religious education, catechetical and media education work in the Archdiocese of Paderborn. The IRUM emerged in 2008 from the merger of the media center and the Institute for Religious Education and Catechesis (IRUK) and has been part of the upcoming one since October 2011. Another library of the IRUM is located in Paderborn . With its holdings of over 35,000 media, the branch in the Kommende is primarily aimed at religious educators and catechists for use in schools and communities.

With the accommodation of the Catholic Data Protection Center , the (arch) dioceses of Aachen, Essen, Cologne, Münster and Paderborn have merged their own areas of data protection. It has its offices in the attic of the new building of the Kommende Dortmund. The local Catholic data protection center is an independent corporation under public law. As an advice center, it is to provide assistance in questions of the laws on church data protection. According to the director Steffen Pau, the data protection supervision of all institutions of Catholic legal entities such as B. day-care centers, parishes, hospitals or community associations. Main task of the KDSZ.

The Institute for Christian Corporate Culture has been located in the old building of the Kommende Dortmund since May 2018 . One of the tasks of the institute is to develop and sharpen the identity of the Christian profile of church institutions and services. One of the tasks of the institute is to develop and sharpen the identity of the Christian profile of church institutions and services. One instrument is the German-CIM (= Catholic Identity Matrix) - a systematic survey of the existing Christian value profile of a church institution. The desired, participatory approach of the method, which would like to involve employees in the evaluation and development process, should enable measures to strengthen the Christian value profile to be implemented with greater approval in the workforce.

history

The social institute is located in the Kommende Brackel (today St. Klemens Kommende Dortmund). The former settlement of the Teutonic Knight Order in Dortmund was donated to the Archdiocese of Paderborn in 1946.

On October 9, 1949, the Archbishop of Paderborn, Lorenz Jaeger , inaugurated the “Institute for Catholic Social Work”. Only later was it renamed "Social Institute of the Archdiocese of Paderborn". As a “meeting place between church and world”, the main tasks in the post-war years were dealing with the professional and working world within the framework of the “Joint Social Work of the Denominations” (GSA) and long-term political education in the spirit of Catholic social teaching. Since then, the content-related work has been continuously expanded and differentiated. Today the social institute Kommende Dortmund is one of the most renowned catholic-social institutes in the German-speaking area.

In 2011 the Kommende Dortmund was renovated and now offers eight conference rooms with up to 120 seats.

Directors

  • 1949–1951: Wilhelm Hameyer
  • 1952–1955: Franz Peitz
  • 1956–1960: Christian Leonard
  • 1960–1961: Augustin Born
  • 1961–1979: Msgr. Helmut Josef Patt
  • 1979–1989: Franz Josef Volmert
  • 1989–1996: Msgr. Reinhard Marx , now Cardinal of Munich and Freising
  • 1997-2005: Msgr. Peter Schallenberg
  • Since 2006: Prelate Peter Klasvogt (as of 2018)

Web links

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  2. ↑ Political education based on the Catholic social teaching website of the Coming Dortmund. Retrieved July 3, 2012
  3. ↑ Priorities Department 2 Website of the Coming Dortmund. Retrieved July 3, 2012
  4. ↑ To the Department of Church and Working World Website of the Coming Dortmund. Retrieved July 3, 2012
  5. ^ Vocational education website of the Coming Dortmund. Retrieved July 3, 2012
  6. ^ Conception - Coming Dortmund Website of the Coming Dortmund. Retrieved July 3, 2012
  7. ^ Michael Kohlstadt "Many want to take responsibility", Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ), December 23, 2007
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  9. ↑ Focus area 3 website of the Coming Dortmund. Retrieved July 3, 2012
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  11. ^ [1] Forum Social Ethics Website der Kommende Dortmund. Retrieved July 3, 2012
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  13. ↑ 25 years of Forum Sozialethik: Network of young scientists firmly established. In: Working Group Catholic-Social Educational Institutions e. V. October 6, 2015, accessed September 21, 2018 .
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  18. ↑ International alumni congress of the Social Academy in Brussels on the topic "Church in Europe - Culture. Identity. Solidarity." In: Website of the Coming Dortmund. Retrieved September 21, 2018 .
  19. ↑ How socioMovens was founded. In: Internet platform socioMovens. Retrieved September 21, 2018 .
  20. ^ AmosInternational Website of the magazine AmosInternational. Retrieved July 3, 2012
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