Second day City immersion

Date: Sunday, November 22nd, 2015 
Location: Zeulenroda-Triebes


Second day: Meeting with Zeulenroda-Triebes local authorities 

After a workshop in which every team came up with new ideas and proposals, we presented to the local authorities of Zeulenroda-Triebes the personal profile of each of our group's members and how we are divided by different topics and goals. 

After the presentation of the Mayor of the city, Herr Dieter Weinlich, our group representatives, Heather Macdonald and Frederike Kipper, explained more in detail the challenges and goals of the project. This presentation was followed by a question-answer session in which we could stablished a first contact with the stakeholders. 

Dieter Weinlich, mayor of Zeulenroda-Triebes

150 perspectives presentation

Some of the questions the group came up with were related to the capabilities and capacities of the city of Zeulenroda-Triebes to attract new people (skilled labor) to sustain the existing industries, as well as problem identification in order to develop a proper strategy for a functional policy memo. 

After an intense weekend of knowing the city, we, 150 perspectives students, are ready to start building up the relationships with the different stakeholders and developing a proper policy to attract migrants to the city.

Now we just have something left to say: Let's do it!!! 

Team 150 perspectives

---> The meeting was attended by the local government, representatives of the Berufsschule, tourist office, welcome center and local media of Zeulenroda-Triebes. In the following link you can find the web page of the city with the information about the meeting with the 150 perspectives team from Willy Brandt School.

http://www.zeulenroda.de/3538_DEU_WWW.php?&publish%5Bid%5D=367747&publish%5Bstart%5D=

First day City immersion

Date: Saturday, November 21st, 2015 
Location: Zeulenroda-Triebes 


First day: let's know the city...

We arrived at 11:30 in Zeulenroda-Triebes HbF. After two hours of traveling, we got ready to start our trip within the city. 

Taking the regional transportation, walking around the hotel and visiting the local museum were some of the activities our group had in order to know the city of Zeulenroda-Triebes. 

Full of beautiful landscapes, an imposing river and a prevailing city hall, the city tells a part of its history in every corner. 

We finally arrived!

Starting our day with a lunch full of energy

The trip started with a walk from the hotel to the city center. After 30 minutes walking through a beautiful forest, we got into the city center of Zeulenroda-Triebes to visit the local museum. The friendly guide of the museum received us with a video  about the city's history and how it has grown since 1380. The museum gave us a first impression about the city and its inhabitants, the way of living and its customs. 

Museum's entrance 

Learning about Zeulenroda-Triebes' history

After the learning experience in the museum, we walked through the city center. Discovering some of the more representative places, taking some pictures and chatting around, we started our way back to the hotel. The afternoon was leading us to a workshop in which we would continue creating and brainstorming about 150 perspectives. 

A big "Hello" for the city

 The Karpfenpfeiffer in "american version"

Going back to the hotel a workshop was waiting for us. Brain storms and getting together helped us to create new strategies to attract new labor migration to the city. Every group worked for two hours in the structure of the team and the methodology that will be used. The results of this workshop will be presented to the local authorities tomorrow morning. 

Target group

Structure and resources team

After a long day of work and learning experience, we are ready for a social meeting and a good night of resting in which we will get new energies for the meeting tomorrow morning. 

Have a good night 150 perspectives team... 

Defining roles

Date: Monday, November 16th 2015

Location: Willy Brandt School 

Objective: identifying everybody's role and tasks 

What is our goal? we will create a policy memo and a marketing strategy that includes a structured project to attract skilled workers and migrants to the city of Zeulenroda-Triebes. 

How are we going to achieve it? after deciding who are the group representatives, the discussion about roles, tasks and expected outcomes drove us to the division of the team according to four research questions and action lines: 

1. Is it possible to steer the labor migration, explain it using the examples of the current migration flows worldwide? 
2. To analyze and to provide a detailed description of the target group for ZT project. 
3. To analyze the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) of our project.
4. Marketing Zeulenroda-Triebes: draft a marketing strategy for the city in order to attract skilled workers.

The group is now organized and ready to start thinking and developing this policy! 

Working together 

Working next to a coffee will be always a good idea 

Discovering IBA

Date: Tuesday, November 10th, 2015

Location: LEG Headquarters, Erfurt 

Objective: presentation of IBA (Internationale Bauausstellung) 

The meeting began at 09:30 a.m. at the LEG headquarters. The group arrived perfectly on time to start Dr Bertram Schiffers's presentation about IBA, which included some history about the institution and the projects they have developed all over Europe. 

The "construction sites" of IBA, as Dr Schiffers mentioned, are: LeerGut (or in English something close to empty and good) that looks for the reprogramming of empty buildings; Land in Sicht (Land in view) aimed to multiple use of ecological landscapes designs; Landstadt für Übermorgen (Provincial town of tomorrow) looks for a better quality of life and sustainable development; Selbstverantwortungsland (own responsibility of the land) recognizes the civil society as an actor and driver of change; and finally Baukulture  (building culture) that integrates the development process**. 

The biggest challenges of our project were also drafted at this meeting; employment opportunities for the new migrants, education, and integration into the civil society are just some of the issues that need to be taken into consideration when coming up with ideas to attract new people into Zeulenroda-Triebes. 

Key topics: Relationship between urban and rural areas in Thüringen, cooperation with different stakeholders of the society, an agro-industrial landscape and a variety of cultural activities.

Dr Schiffers explains what IBA is about

Our group in LEG headquarters

"Coffee is always a good idea" 

Our mentors

The group is now complete and ready to start.

Our group

----> **Further information about IBA, please check www.iba-thueringen.de 

Communications team

First meeting: Friday, November 6th, 2015 
Location: Cafe Hilgenfeld


At this meeting, the communications team got together with the idea of creating the strategy the group will implement to share our experience with external partners, and also

to develop the comprehensive approach to immigration in Thuringia based on the case of Zuelenroda-Triebes: 

The first draft of the strategy would be the following:

1. Create a blog: using this tool we will post different kind of information, videos and pictures of every step of the process. 
2. Design a logo: this image will represent our work in every meeting we will have. 
3. Videos: using this technology, we will express our ideas and thoughts about related topics and  have a more interactive communication with the public. 

First meeting at Cafe Hilgenfeld

The project group has voted for this logo (Created by Madiha Ali)

First step: getting together

First meeting:  Tuesday, November 3th 2015
Location: Willy Brandt School
Objective: knowing each other and establishing goals and tasks

In this meeting the group decided the scope of the project and logistical issues, as well as we split in sub groups according to different works and responsibilities. 

The subgroups are the following: 

1. Target group (Locals): the goal of this group is to analyze the situation from the local authorities and civil society. The principal objective is to develop ideas on how to integrate foreigners and refugees into the society, and how to foster integration as well as to develop policy recommendations on what should be done. 
2. Communications team: the goal of this sub group is to develop the platforms to share information with external partners, to document the working process during the time the project runs and to produce internal material reports. 

Project group students 

Working together with refugees

Our mentors: Prof Andreas Jäger and Anastasiya Sabatkouskaya

Who we are

"I encourage all people to help foster a principled, practical and creative discussion on how we can ensure the protection of the rights of all migrants, wherever they are and whatever their status"

Ban Ki-moon

Madiha Ali
Pakistan

Bhavya Balakrishnan
India

Fernando Cabarrús
Guatamala

Suhaili Ismail 
Malaysia

Frederike Kripper
Germany

Irem Albak
Canada

Heather Macdonald
United States

Lorena Ramos 
Colombia

Kyle Vigraham 
United States 

Didre Ladrón de Guevara 
Mexico