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The Ideas Café is part of the joint project Network Integration Empowerment #WIRKLICHMACHEN and is co-financed by the European Union. We create opportunities for encounters between people with and without refugee or migrant background and actively shape intercultural togetherness in Kiel!
Become a tandem partner! According to the motto “Inclusion through friendship”, we arrange tandems between people with and without refugee/migration experience for joint leisure activities and cultural exchange.
Become part of our media project! Do you fancy photography, filming or a podcast? You can get creative with us and show the diversity in Kiel to the outside world.
Since the association was founded in March 2016, kulturgrenzenlos e.V. has been organising various projects to promote intercultural exchange between young people with and without a refugee background.
Nana and Saida, participants in kulturgrenzenlos, share a special friendship that has developed through the project. Saida was new to Germany and heard about the programme through a friend. Nana discovered it back in 2019 via the university and signed up for the tandem project last year.
Are you a student and want to meet new people from other cultures? Then take part in our international language and women's cafés and get involved in intercultural encounters around campus.
The exhibition Stories of Remembering and Arriving shows various stories from the exhibition Syria memorabilia and Afghan women* tell as well as other stories or memories of people who no longer live in their home country.
These are Dania and Friedi. They've been a tandem for 9 months now. Friedi studies at the university and first learned about kulturgrenzenlos e.V. in 2021, but only signed up for the tandem project the following year because she didn't have the time before. “Now it has really become a part of our daily lives,” she says with a smile. Dania got to know the tandem project through her brother, who also participated.
These are Daria and Theresa. They have been a tandem for four months now. Theresa has not been in Kiel for long and became aware of kulturgrenzenlos because she was looking for a tandem partner to learn a language and, above all, to get to know Kiel better. Daria's motivation to join the tandem project was mainly the desire to meet new people.
“It has definitely changed my impression of people interested in computer science,” Antonia replies when asked if there’s anything she has learned from her tandem partner Emre. They both start laughing, and Emre shares: “I've been interested in computers since I was 5 years old. At first, my parents wanted to show me how to use a computer, and it wasn't long before I had to explain everything to them. I've always enjoyed programming, and gaming was just a good way to communicate with someone.”
If that's not a reason to celebrate: In the category “Bridge to Society” we have won the 2021 University and Integration Prize awarded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the DAAD!

Ann-Christin

  • Rolle im Projekt:
    Projektkoordinatorin im Projekt “CoCo – Cooking Connects”
  • Was motiviert dich, bei uns mitzuarbeiten?

    Mir macht besonders die Arbeit mit Menschen Spaß. Die Idee eines Begegnungsprojekts, bei dem Menschen mit unterschiedlichen kulturellen Hintergründen aufeinandertreffen finde ich besonders wichtig, um Vorurteile abzubauen und dazu beizutragen, gemeinsam eine offene, bunte Gesellschaft zu gestalten, in der sich jede Person willkommen fühlt. Insbesondere im momentanen gesellschaftspolitischen Klima ist es mir wichtig, mich für ein diverses und friedliches Miteinander einzusetzen.

  • Was bedeutet dir interkultureller Austausch?

    Interkultureller Austausch bedeutet für mich, sich zu trauen, über den eigenen Tellerrand hinauszublicken, offen auf Menschen und ihre Lebenswelten zuzugehen und neue Perspektiven einzunehmen.

  • Ein Fun Fact über dich:
    Meine kleine Mopshündin Lilly wird euch evtl. auch im Büro oder bei gemeinsamen Projekten über den Weg laufen. 

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