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Competence Centres of the Network IQ

Besides consulting and supporting the regional networks, the competence centres are responsible for the quality of activities and services in their respective field. Testing innovative approaches to integration is also one of their tasks. The competence centres combine practical experience and academic expertise. They also provide recommendations to decision makers in politics, business and public administration at the federal level.

Competence Centre for Counselling and Job Training of Migrants

The IQ Competence Centre for Counselling and Job Training of Migrants  supports and advises members of the Network IQ – Integration through Qualification in two areas: counselling on credential recognition and job training as well as bridge training schemes in the context of the Recognition Act. The competence centre disseminates results and findings from these areas to decision-makers in politics, administration, business and the expert community.

The specific foci of work of the IQ Competence Centre for Counselling and Job Training of Migrants are:

  • Promoting the professionalization of IQ advisers and trainers by offering training courses, information material and networking events that facilitate the exchange of practical experience

  • Supporting the quality development and quality control of training schemes and advice

  • Continuously developing and providing concepts, processes, instruments and practical guidelines

  • Developing virtual bridge training schemes for academics

  • Promoting thematic and interdisciplinary exchange within the Network IQ by organizing conferences, expert meetings, etc.

  • Monitoring of counselling activities and job training schemes offered by IQ

  • Preparing and disseminating monitoring results - together with research findings – to politics, administration, business and the expert community.

Competence Centre for Immigration and Integration

The Competence Centre for Immigration works at the intersection between migration research and practical integration work. We mainly work at the institutional level, cooperating with other stakeholders and projects in the thematic area of recent immigration. Our goal is to foster the dialogue and provide practitioners and policy makers – especially within the Network IQ – with recommendations, instruments, methods and concepts to improve the integration of migrants and refugees into education and the labour market.

More information on the Competence Centre for Immigration is available here.

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