The Zentrum für interkulturelle Bildung und Arbeit (ZiB) e.V. is a registered non-profit association founded in 2003. Thematically our primary focus is inter- and transculturality in research and practice.
The integration of migrants and the socially disadvantaged people is an important focus of our work. We see interculturality as a cross-sectoral task, which we promote, practice and explore in a variety of contexts. This includes testing new forms of work-based learning and opportunities to integrate and integrate disadvantaged and migrants through work and study at work.
Further areas of work and competence at ZiB e.V. are basic education, the social economy, environmental education and cultural studies. The ZiB e.V. is also involved in various regional and supra-regional initiatives like basic education and migration (Network Migration Integration in Ahrensburg).
Between 2009 and 2012, ZiB e.V. was partner in the project APRIL (Work Process Integrated Intercultural Learning in Operation), financed by the EU program XENOS. The aim of this project was to implement intercultural competence at all levels of the partner institution BQS and to anchor it in the corporate philosophy. This included measures of social work and basic education in many areas of work, including work-based literacy for the group of socially disadvantaged workers, including many migrants from Poland and the Russian-speaking region.
From October 2012 to December 2014, the ZiB e.V. carried out a project concerning illiteracy and basic education for SMEs: GRiBS, the ” Grundbildungsinitiative für KMU in Schleswig-Holstein”. This BMBF-funded project aimed to sensitize SMEs in Schleswig-Holstein to the problems of lacking basic education skills of their employees.
Since 2018 ZiB worked in the following projects:
Partner in the Erasmus + project QualiProSH Electro. In this educational project, ZiB e.V. has been responsible for the preparation and testing of various qualification modules for a total qualification,
Lead of the Erasmus+ project CHEER-Cultural heritage entrepreneurs. The project had the aim to educate long term unemployed people and give them the knowledge to found their own company which included their cultural heritage,
Partner in Cultural heritage 4 all, which concerns the promotion and safeguarding of the European cultural heritage,
Lead in Open City in which unemployed people become ambassadors which get educated and aims to make city districts more attractive and
Partner in BASICEDU which develops an online learning platform to improve the basic education of disadvantaged people.
Lead the project ECHO
At the moment ZiB is leading the project Local Creative Guides, and member of YouHEALTH and Memory of History.
The ZiB e.V. is a corporate member of the local Joint Welfare Association and the network Migration & Integration.
Dipl.-Kfm. Danny Franke studied business administration at the University of Hamburg and completed a certified training as a further education consultant. Since 2013, he studies extra-occupational cultural studies at the University of Hagen. From 2003 to 2011 he worked for the BQS employment and qualification company Stormarn mbH in Bad Oldesloe in various EU projects. He has been working at ZiB e.V. since 2011, where he is primarily responsible for socio-economic issues (including the Social Enterprises of Training and Education (SOTEC)) as well as continuing education counseling, qualification and administration. He leads the SOTEC department. He worked for the Weiterbildungsverbund (further education network) Stormarn-Herzogtum Lauenburg and has carried out many hundreds of consultations. He has many years of experience in the acquisition, implementation and coordination of projects: Learning Regions, APRIL, GRiBS (BMBF), Erasmus + QualiProSH Electro, E+ CHEER-Cultural Heritage entrepreneurs, E+ Open City, E+ Living Heritage 4 all, E+ BASICEDU and ECHO, Local Creative Guides and YouHEALTH. He has competence in the field of work process integrated learning and is responsible there for the development and implementation of qualifications. The main target groups of his work are social disadvantaged people and migrants.
Ana Maria Leal Granados was trainer in the project CHEER and has worked inside the projects Open City, Living Heritage 4 all, BASICEDU, Memory of history and YouHEALTH coordinated the projects ECHO and Local Creative Guides. She supports the transnational communication, translations and meetings. She studied Public Administration in her home country, Colombia and has focused her carrier in the social area and local development. She has worked mainly in governmental social projects, international cooperation, social businesses, and support of vulnerable communities.