The Multilingualism Working Group of the Pankow District Office’s Integration Advisory Board was initiated by members of the migrant:inner organizations because they had previously been involved with Lingua Pankow. External and non-MSO members later joined.  They have worked together to improve and promote multilingual services for all families in the district.

Their work was accompanied by our project until the end of the activities.

 

 

Goals of the working group on multilingualism:

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• Promote multilingualism in the district - in the administration and in the educational institutions - and contribute to the institutionalization of multilingualism in Pankow through offers and campaigns

• Expertise of the migrants: Making visible multilingualism within organizations and contributing to cross-district networking

• create non-discriminatory spaces related to multilingualism

• promote intercultural opening of day-care centers, schools, administration and politics.

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This initiative ran fromOctober 2019 to the end of 2022, when it was decidedto merge with AK Lingua Pankow. Her work is on the portal of the district integration officeuntil 2020registered. 

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Important activities

 

• Mother Language Day 2020: Mother tongue - half a language? Information, discussion, exchange - flyers​

• ​Future workshop: “Multilingualismas a political commitment" (as part of the symposium "Multilingualism in the Berlin Education System", am September 24, 2020). Cooperation with AG M. von Marzahn-Hellersdorf.​

• To the Pankow Integration Committee​

  • ​Policy Recommendations2020

  • Small request: Multilingual administration in Pankow

  • Report 2020

  • Application to the integration committee of the Pankow district office 2021

  • Application: Promote multilingualism 2021

• Newsletter 2021:Amendment of the school law §15: native language instruction​. In 20 languages.

•  Day of the mother tongue 2022: "Parents daycare school: together for linguistic diversity in Pankow"

  • ​ORGA team and cooperation partners

  • program

• Open letter: "Educational policy must finally think about multilingualism!". To those responsible for education policy at federal and state level.

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