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" 3 hoch 3 " DAAD Ostpartnerschaften

Project Leadership: Alexandra Geisler, Paola Yaconis (International Office)
Funding Program: Eastern Partnerships – Partnerships with Universities in Eastern, South-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
Program Sponsor: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Total Funding: €35,907
Project Duration: 01 January 2023 – 31 December 2025

*Funded by DAAD with resources from the German Federal Foreign Office (AA)

Participating Universities

  • Fachhochschule Dresden (FHD), University of Applied Sciences – Faculty of Applied Social Sciences / International Office

  • John Wesley Theological College Budapest (JWTC), Department of Social Work

  • Landesrabbinerseminar Jüdische Universität (OR-ZSE), Social Work and Social Science Department

Key Measures of the Partnership

Study Days
FHD, JWTC, and OR-ZSE organize study days in preparation for a future bilateral Summer School on Diversity. Target groups include students from Applied Social Sciences, Social Work, Environmental Security, Theology and Religious Studies, Education Science, and Social Work and Social Studies.

The program addresses multiple aspects of diversity in teaching, practice, and society, including lectures, discussion rounds, field visits, and excursions.

Students and faculty from the participating disciplines will have opportunities to exchange knowledge, deepen understanding, and build international networks. In thematic workshops, participants collaboratively explore professional commonalities across borders and develop approaches for International Social Work addressing transnational migration, asylum, and refugee movements as well as broader cultural and religious change. Topics include practical ethics, youth and family work, migration, professionalization, culture, and comparisons of institutional arrangements.

Curricular Development of a Joint University Qualification Framework in Child Protection
Social work plays a central role in supporting a healthy and functioning society. Child and youth services are the largest and most professionally diverse field of social work, serving children, adolescents, and their families. Assistance in education forms a central part of German and Hungarian child and youth services.

Child protection is understood broadly as protecting children from conditions or measures that undermine their rights to a dignified life, personal development, and effective support, and narrowly as supporting children, adolescents, parents, and caregivers in cases of (potential) abuse, neglect, sexualized or domestic violence.

The binational qualification framework allows participants to learn across national borders, understand the structural and cultural differences in child protection systems, and engage in discussions on diversity and deeply rooted discriminatory practices, including gender-based discrimination. Key social categories considered include gender and sexual orientation, socio-economic status, migration history, ethnicity, and disability.

Joint Research Project on Experiences with Residential Confinement and Restrictive Measures in Youth Services and Psychiatry in Hungary
Workshops with 10 young people from at least two specialized children’s homes in Budapest and Esztergom allow participants to share experiences of confinement and restrictions. They discuss individual paths within the child and youth welfare system and opportunities for participation and complaints.

Recommendations and insights from participants are collected to improve participation and complaint mechanisms, with outcomes documented by and for affected youth. Results will also be integrated into university teaching through seminars for students and professionals.