International Social Work: Project ThRIvE
Empowering international social workers to engage in sustainable, mindful, conflict, and cultural sensitive practice
The DAAD-funded project ThRIvE (International Social Work from Crises to Sustainable Futures - Thinking from the Future, Recognizing & Interconnecting in the Past, Virtual & Embodied Empowerment in the Present), supports and promotes the international and scientific exchange about international social work in crisis contexts. It is based on a collaboration between the Technical University Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS) in Germany, the Modern University for Business and Science (MUBS) in Lebanon and the German Jordanian University (GJU) in Jordan. Until 2025, as part of the project, various in presence courses and different blended-learning mobilities are organized and carried out in the trinational cooperation that deal with the topics of international social work, crisis-resilience & sustainability in all three countries. This also includes documenting previously invisible knowledge from social work practice in crisis regions and making that knowledge accessible future social workers and the general public.
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The project is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with Federal Foreign Office funds as part of the programme line "Ta'ziz Science Cooperations 2023-2025".
In the ThRIvE project, the exchange and cooperation between the German, Lebanese, and Jordanian project partners, which was established with the previous projects HED, LOSWAC und AttiMa, will be continued.
Creative Arts for Sustainable Futures
Creative Arts for Sustainable Futures: In the ThRIvE project, students from Germany, Lebanon, and Jordan explored creative and sustainable methods for social change. Between 2023 and 2025, several international seminars and mobilities took place, fostering intercultural exchange, social innovation, and addressing topics such as sustainability, community wellbeing, youth empowerment, and peacebuilding.
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Mindfulness-based Intercultural Communication & Resilience Trainings
Mindfulness-based Intercultural Communication & Resilience Trainings were offered and conducted during the ThRIvE project in German-speaking and Arabic-speaking countries for students from Germany, Lebanon and Jordan, in practice-oriented seminars for female caregivers at the Zaatari camp, and for MBSR alumni.
SWorld - Digitalizing and archiving Social Work history in Lebanon
SWorld - Digitalizing & archiving Social Work history in Lebanon is a digital research and knowledge platform dedicated to the social work profession in Lebanon. Its aim is to digitalise and archive the history of social work. The SWorld website provides digital access to historical materials, complemented by intergenerational events and round-table discussions in which Lebanese pioneers and young social work professionals engage in dialogue with one another. In this way, the past is preserved and the future of social work is shaped.