On December 15, 2016, this year’s final event of the series “Refugees in Germany–Educational Trajectories and Social Integration” took place: Dr. Silke Schneider and Verena Ortmanns (GESIS–Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) presented the CAMCES tool developed by them. Their lecture at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) was entitled “Computer-Assisted Measurement and Coding of Educational Qualifications in Multicultural Surveys: A New Set of Survey Tools”.
As part of the lecture series “Refugees in Germany–Educational Trajectories and Social Integration”, Dr. David Schiefer of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (Sachverständigenrat deutscher Stiftungen für Integration und Migration, Berlin) gave a talk on the “Challenges of empirically assessing the life situations of refugees in Germany” at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi).
As part of the lecture series “Refugees in Germany–Educational Trajectories and Social Integration”, Prof. em. Dr. Jürgen Friedrichs, University of Cologne, reported on his current research projects. His lecture was entitled “Problems of the socio-spatial integration of refugees–results of empirical studies”.
On November 24, 2016, the second contribution to the lecture series “Refugees in Germany–Educational Trajectories and Social Integration“ took place at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi). Here, Dr. Susanne Worbs, Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge, BAMF) reported on a current project concerned with the life situation of people who are entitled to political asylum and recognized refugees in Germany.