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Lipschitzallee / Gropiusstadt Neighborhood Management Lipschitzallee / Gropiusstadt Lipschitzallee 36 12353 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30-60972903 qm-lipschitzallee@stern-berlin.de www.qm-gropiusstadt.de Implementing partners: S.T.E.R.N. Gesellschaft der behutsamen Stadterneuerung; FiPP e.V. – Fortbildungs- institut für die pädagogische Praxis “Gropiusstadt“ is a large housing estate from the 1970‘s. The apartments were built within the scope of social housing provision. The area is very well connected to the public transport system, with three underground stations and via various bus lines.The popular shopping mall “Gropiuspassagen“ is in close proximity to the neighborhood. The area does not appear too packed with the many residential blocks of between 3 and up to 19 storeys, since there are many public green areas, smaller shopping malls and service buildings in between. The majority of the �rst tenants, all over 55 years old today, have a strong feeling of attachment to their neighborhood “Gropiusstadt“. Today, a high proportion of migrants live in the area, with many new German citizens who came from the former Soviet states. Further, there are many Turkish nationals and people of 36 © NM Lipschitzallee / Gropiusstadt The Neighborhood Management area “Lipschitzallee / Gropiusstadt” in the south of the district Neukölln extends from north of Lipschitzallee to the Zwickauer Damm. The neighborhood includes large areas of “Gropiusstadt“ and, with 24,000 inhabitants, is among the largest focus areas of the “Socially Integrative City“ program. Arab and Polish origin. However, most new tenants in the area have a low level of (subsidized) income and a low level of education. Many of these people are of non-German origin. The frequently observed “speechlessness“ between old and young on the one hand and between the di�erent cultures on the other hand has a negative impact on the development of positive relationships among the residents in particular, and of a feeling of ownership for the area in general. Particularly many older residents do not feel safe in public areas and deplore the uncleanliness of the same, as well as the fact that there are no recreational activities which would be appropriate for them.
Selection of projects carried out to date The neighborhood has a number of educational, social and cultural facilities. The Neighborhood Management seeks to work with these institutions in order to strengthen networking and co-operation and introduce a more proactive approach in working with the residents. The project “Parent School“ aims at fostering the co-operation between schools and parents and encourage parental dialogue. Parentteacher conferences with language interpretation in German, Turkish and Arab languages take place on a regular basis. A course in German language and a “Parents‘ Café“ to facilitate exchange among parents complement this o�er. It is planned to strengthen or establish meeting points which are actually utilized by the people living in the area - regardless of their nationality. Within the scope of a workshop, parents and children have built a traditional clay oven on the adventure playground under professional supervision. The result was the “Gropiusstadt Community Oven“, created as a joint project of the residents. The “Laundry Café“ complements existing neighborhood facilities with a new range of services. Under the project “Flowers for Gropiusstadt“ many children‘s hands planted �owers in three areas around Lipschitzallee. 13 “District Mothers“ of seven di�erent nationalities speaking ten di�erent languages in total are active in Gropiusstadt. They visit migrant families at home and, for example, inform parents about the German education system, give advise in education, nutrition and other parenting related questions. The project “Little Star“ supports language training in almost all daycare centers and two primary schools of Gropiusstadt. Following a “learning-through-playing“ approach, the children are prepared for a successful start in school. The early language support program is targeted at children between 3 to 7 years of age. The project “Schule der Eltern” (“School of parents“) is supposed to foster co-operation between schools and parents and encourage parental dialogue. The �rst “Gropiusstadt Education Conference“ took place in April 2008 and brought together more than 140 participants with various social and economic backgrounds. Participants jointly developed a vision of how Gropiusstadt would develop as an educational location over the next �ve years. Activities were drafted and time schedules �xed. Project ideas ranged from small-scale co-operations within the “Kiez“ to the development of an area-wide “Language Strategy“ for Gropiusstadt. The project “Bildungsmeile Wutzkyallee“ (“a mile of learning at Wutzkyallee”), a network of three schools, one daycare center and a youth center, was among the direct outcomes of the conference. All educational projects are overseen by the “Education Association Gropiusstadt“, which will coordinate the development of the Gropiusstadt as an educational location in co-operation with the “WBG degewo“ housing society. 37 © NM Lipschitzallee / Gropiusstadt © NM Lipschitzallee / Gropiusstadt © NM Lipschitzallee / Gropiusstadt Education Conference 2008 Activity trail Get-together in the courtyard 2008 District: Neukölln Supported since: 2005 Area: 140 ha Population: 24,064 Proportion of foreign nationals: 18.16% Population with migration background: 46.66%
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