Future Conference “Labor Migration and Crafts”

A large skills gap and unfilled training positions pose major challenges for the German labor market and are also making themselves felt in the skilled trades:

Workers and trainees are desperately needed! This demand can no longer be met, making it clear: Germany, a country of immigration, is urgently dependent on migration to cope with demographic and structural economic change. This is countered by current mixed experiences in the area of ​​displacement and migration: While politics and society seem characterized by isolation and rejection, many positive and forward-looking experiences are being made in the economy and the world of work. These are often pilot projects, are still isolated, and receive little attention – although many refugees and immigrants would like to contribute their professional and professional qualifications and experience to society and the labor market.

The Future Conference therefore wants to work together with the skilled trades and organisations from the migrant and civil society sectors, from the church, Diakonie and Caritas and politics

· present successful projects from the craft and business sectors, as well as initiatives and offers from social and church contexts
· Clarify the framework
· contribute to awareness and networking
Bringing stakeholders together
and thereby open up potential and new perspectives.

Municipal Conference 2025 “Recruiting Skilled Workers Without Losers – How Municipalities, Businesses, and Countries of Origin Can Benefit Together”

The shortage of skilled workers poses major challenges for businesses and administration in Baden-Württemberg. At the same time, international skilled workers—particularly from Africa—offer new opportunities for sustainable development and economic cooperation. Municipalities play a key role in this: They are not only contact points for new skilled workers, but also places where they live and work. Close ties between municipalities and businesses are therefore crucial to welcoming skilled workers and maximizing their potential.

The Baden-Württemberg Development Cooperation Foundation (SEZ) invites in cooperation with the Baden-Württemberg City Council cordially to Municipal specialist conference at the Fair Trade fair.

Date: April 25, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 13:00 p.m.
Venue: International Congress Center Stuttgart (C6.1), Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre

Discuss innovative ways of recruiting skilled workers, best practices and the role of municipalities in this process with experts from business, local authorities and development cooperation.

Please register by April 21, 2025, using the following link:
https://eveeno.com/467925807

Eintritt der ist frei.

The event takes place as part of the Fair Handeln trade fair, which you can visit with your ticket after participating.

Moderation: Petra Schmettow (finep)

We look forward to your participation!
Baden-Württemberg Development Cooperation Foundation (SEZ)
Baden-Württemberg City Council

ENGAGEMENT WORLDWIDE

Germany’s only trade fair on the topic of “Working in Development Cooperation!”

Have you always wanted to know what job opportunities development cooperation has to offer you?
Are you wondering what opportunities there might be for you in development work abroad and in Germany? Would you like to find sustainable jobs with national and international organizations in development cooperation, humanitarian aid or peace work? Would you like to be able to ask critical questions? And would you like to be able to draw on authentic reports from former and active development cooperation experts?

Then the ENGAGEMENT WELTWEIT trade fair is the right place for you!

The trade fair ENGAGEMENT WELTWEIT is taking place again:

Date: Saturday, November 23, 2024, 10:00 a.m. to 17:00 p.m.

Venue: RHEIN SIEG FORUM, Bachstr. 1 in 53721 Siegburg

ENGAGEMENT WELTWEIT was initiated by AKLHÜ eV - Network and Specialist Office for International Human Resources Cooperation and is the only trade and job fair in Germany on the subject of working in development cooperation. The job fair is aimed in particular at experienced specialists and managers as well as university graduates and career starters who would like to discover their career opportunities in development cooperation. On our job market you can also find some job offers from the organizations that will be presenting themselves at ENGAGEMENT WELTWEIT 2024. Look forward to many NGOs that work with partners in Africa, Asia and Latin America, among others.

German-Burundian evening: Living partnership

Baden-Württemberg and Burundi are celebrating the 40th anniversary of their partnership this year. To mark this anniversary, the RAPRED-Girubuntu organization would like to make this partnership better known. Interested people and partnership groups at community and parish level are cordially invited to this event!

World:Citizens asked – 4th Regional Conference on Development Policy in Ulm

At the Regional Development Policy Conference in Ulm, the Council for Development Cooperation (REZ) – the
the state government advises – and politicians enter into dialogue with civil society actors and receive their wishes and demands, which are brought together in the impulse rooms in the afternoon and in the fishbowl discussion.

Come and join the discussion! It is an opportunity to learn about the activities for more global responsibility and solidarity in the region, to network with the actors and to inform political representatives about your own work and concerns.
There is an exciting and inspiring program that starts the evening before with a get-together in the House of Sustainability and on the day of the conference with a mind map workshop for a participatory introduction.
We look forward to your participation!

Young talent conference: Current developments in Latin America

The event is a forum for students and doctoral candidates. The junior conference offers the opportunity to make contacts, present your own research projects and discuss them together with experts from Latin America. Participants who do not present their own project are also welcome.

Cine Latino 2024

It's that time again. CineLatino is just around the corner.
The 31st CineLatino and the 21st CineEspañol will take place from May 1st to 8th in Tübingen, Reutlingen, Stuttgart and Freiburg. The Stuttgart program begins on Thursday May 2nd and ends on Wednesday May 8th.
A good opportunity to see numerous films from Spain and Latin America in the original version with subtitles!

The country focus is Peru.
In this year's edition of the festival we would like to bring you closer to the diversity of the third largest country in South America after Brazil and Argentina! Peru is largely located in the Amazon rainforest. Mostly known for Machu Picchu, an ancient Inca sanctuary high in the Andes, and numerous other archaeological sites of the Inca culture.
Topic focus: Encountering the Andes differently – change in the highlands of Peru
CineLatino 2024 focuses on the population groups of Peru, on the longest mountain range in the world: the Andes. What opportunities do the different generations of the Altiplano have in the face of climate change, marginalization and destruction of indigenous cultures?

Opening on Thursday, May 2nd at 20 p.m. in Stuttgart
The festival begins in Stuttgart on Thursday, May 2.5nd. at 20 p.m. with the film “Las hijas” (The Daughters) by Kattia G. Zúñiga, Panama/Chile 2023, 80 min., OmeU, which was awarded “Best Film” in Malaga. Two sisters on a journey to visit their father make new friends, flirt and discover their sexuality. A colorful teenage life towards emancipation.

Another reference to a Stuttgart specialty:
Thematic afternoon, this time about Nicaragua
1979 revolution in Nicaragua - back then the beginning of a dream for many leftists and today?
A dream of revolution, documentary, 95 minutes, written and directed by Petra Hoffmann

When the revolution triumphed in Nicaragua almost 45 years ago, a dream began. A young generation takes over the government in a country of great utopia. From West Germany alone, 15.000 “Brigadists” are coming to rebuild the country that has been bled dry: Liberals, Greens, trade unionists, social democrats, leftists and church representatives harvest coffee and cotton, build schools, kindergartens and hospital wards. No movement has mobilized so many people. What happened to the wishes and dreams of revolutionaries and their supporters?
Petra Hoffmann, who will be available for the interview, was unable to travel to Nicaragua to film due to the current political situation, the Ortega dictatorship.
For her film, she uses historical film clips, statements from those involved in the trial, but also statements from former comrades in arms from Europe with whom she met in Costa Rica on the border with Nicaragua.

Municipal specialist conference

Images – Opinions – Perspectives – Creating lively municipal partnerships

This year's municipal expert forum organized by the Association of Baden-Württemberg Cities and the Baden-Württemberg Development Cooperation Foundation focuses on the upcoming local elections and their importance for global partnerships. In light of the increasing polarization of political and social discourse, narratives critical of partnerships are gaining strength. The focus of the municipal expert forum is therefore the question: How can and must global partnerships be argued in the local political context in order to continue to exist in the future?

Speakers:NN

Registration: until March 27, 2024 via the following link: https://eveeno.com/742914243

With the admission ticket you have the opportunity to visit the Fair Trade trade fair after the event.

Everyday Forum Forum 2023

The Allerwelts Forum stands for One World - Sustainability - Environment - Regionality - Fairness - for everyone and everywhere. After 25 years of the Allerweltsfest, we are now starting the first Allerwelts Forum because we always need places to discuss these concerns in a broader public, to exchange ideas, to receive impulses, to gain new perspectives and to form alliances.

13:30 p.m. - 15:00 p.m. Live music, market of opportunities
15:00 p.m. – 16:30 p.m. Impulses and discussions with Kathrin Hartmann and Andreas Zumach
16:30 p.m. – 18:00 p.m. Market of Opportunities

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