Project Goals

The professional competences from students are supposed to improve through learning from experience-based, participatory teaching formats that are implemented through different project activities, such as practice projects, mobilities, workshops, internships, and symposia. The project team values the relevance of practical learning and therefore provides alternative teaching formats. The project is supposed to be a role model to achieve a sustainable change of the university curricula, to be able to prepare soon to be social workers as best as possible for the practical work in crisis. 

Social work is influenced and formed by past, present, and future crisis. Because social work sets a focus on individuals and communities, need professional social workers to constantly educate themselves further. Through the project, internal PhD-candidates and research projects (from team members) are supported and promoted with the aim that future social workers can also benefit from the knowledge production. As part of the symposia and other international events such as the human rights week in Würzburg, is the goal for the next years to establish new cooperation and to increase the project outreach. A larger network can achieve more change. 

Because of more global crisis and their impact, is it for professional social workers becoming more relevant to be confronted with practical interventions already during the studies, to later be able to combat discrimination, exclusion, and violent conflicts. Through the trinational cooperation, social work students in Lebanon, Jordan, and Germany get to know many different perspectives. Through the implementation of the project activities, the educational institutions of social work can be further internationalized over time. In addition, the relatively new programs of social work in Jordan and Lebanon will be promoted and consolidated through the cooperation.