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Welcome to five minutes of
urban studies - the video podcast of ILS.

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We are here today at the Nordmarkt
with the event

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"400 chairs - Together against educational
and Participation Disadvantages".

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Our role as ILS in this project is,

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that we on the one hand
have done the empirical research.

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We conducted more than 80 interviews in the fieldwork phase.

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We have had informal discussions
and we have also done participant observation

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in different facilities
carried out here in the Nordstadt.

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The interviews were conducted with newly arrived migrants,

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then with local actors,
who also work directly with new migrants

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and with actors on a strategic level.

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Here the setting-up is going on right now,
the booths are being set up

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and then in half an hour it will start
and the children will bring the school chairs.

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The question of access to the resource of education emerges as key

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to gain access to other social and urban resources.

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That means the kindergarten or school is not only the place where I learn the alphabet,

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but also the place where I can get information,

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where my child can attend a course, where I can attend evening classes.

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That is, not having a place in daycare or school also means

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being excluded from a whole lot of other systems and accesses,

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that I actually have a right to. And for us, that meant saying:

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If this is so important,

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but it's not visible enough yet,
then we need to give it more space - literally - more space

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time and the people who can also move the cause forward.

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This has now led to this event here, 400 chairs

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where we - from the scientific perspective - developed this idea together with the Planerladen.

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But very quickly it came to this,
that local actors then said:

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“"Yeah, that's good, that's exactly what we need!”.

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We see ourselves as a part of the whole and want to
also pursue this form of collective action,

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which also does not end with today.

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So we have, I would say, coordinated the event.

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So we have prepared the planning,
we activated the stakeholders,

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we held planning meetings for the event, where we explained to the stakeholders what the event was about,

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what could be achieved with the event, how could the stakeholders contribute?

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Then we did the planning here on site,
that is, we looked at how the 400 chairs would fit onto the Nordmarkt,

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how they could be set up, where can information booths be set up?

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How to make the event complete?

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How to make from these elements on the
one hand the chairs,

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on the other hand the information booths and the inputs that are there,
can make a total package.

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We can actually imagine that,

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weaving that in as a theme throughout things we're doing anyway.

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So we have a citizens' forum, for example,
called "North Meets South",

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where the north-south divide that exists in the
division that exists in the Ruhr region,

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where it is addressed.

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So where people
from different parts of the city meet,

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we can imagine,
making education the main focus.

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We have a youth forum, which is all about the political
participation of young people.

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There we can imagine,
that the topic will be discussed.

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In this direction
follow-up formats could go.

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If you look at this picture
with the chairs, this is also illustrated

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in a completely different way,
the number of children we are talking about here.

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400 children - that is an enormous amount

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and that's why I'm very grateful that this image was
created so that this can be brought to the public's attention,

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because I'm very shocked that this debate

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doesn't actually take place in public.

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So in the past
of course something has already happened a bit.

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There is a huge new school construction program
for the northern part of the city or even a renovation program,

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which is also included there.

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1 billion euros is, I believe, already a very
very big step that has been taken.

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But what has often happened in the past is that
projects are delayed,

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that it takes longer,
some things should have been completed already,

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other things havn't even started.

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On the one hand, we need to get more speed into it in order to find long-term solutions.

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We need to look around for new locations for schools

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in order to increase the number even further on a permanent basis.

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But what we also need are immediate measures.

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After all, 400 children have just been affected
and the figures show

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that the situation will probably be
similar in the next few years.

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We must not simply
simply brush it aside.

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This is simply not an acceptable solution for me.

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that we transport children from here partly to Hörde.

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These are small children,

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for them it is very exhausting
and I think it's also very difficult for the parents here,

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who are already facing a lot of challenges,

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it is often difficult or even impossible to cope.

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We all have to sit down around the table

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and try to find a solution here on site.

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There are certainly options there.

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One could think about container solutions
about adding more floors,

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and perhaps intelligently pull things together or make use of vacancies.

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It must be talked about
in any case, to keep the problem

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as small as possible,
400 is simply not an acceptable number.

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"Without school, without class, my child stays on the street".

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This is also important for us in terms of research,

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so that we can better understand which cities and
which urban structures and also

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- I'll say in a broader sense - which governance, i.e. integration governance, is involved.

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How does arrival work,
how is arrival structured?

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Which also partly varies from municipality to municipality.

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So not everything runs the same

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and that's what we're trying to
find out in a little more detail.

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Yes, we will in any case today right here
in the café with the project team,

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but also with all those who were here
on site and still have time.

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Is also a question
"Who has time for such an action at all?"

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- and actually, also to consider how this topic of education
can also be extended beyond the Nordstadt

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within the city, but also in the region, in the Ruhr area

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and can also be networked even more closely

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and actors can be brought together accordingly.