It is not just since the "long summer of migration" (2015) that questions of social integration have been the subject of intensive public and social science discussions. A key role is assigned to the institution "school" in these debates, and rightly so. 

School is important for successful integration. And not only in its function as a formal educational institution. It also highly relevant as an everyday arena for informal social contacts and interactions between migrants and peers (co-pupils) from the so-called majority society. Investigating the social integration of migrant pupils in the structure of classes, the project takes an empirical look at this dual integration function of schools.

Project management:

Junior Professor Miriam Kuckuck
Professor Malte Steinbrink
Project staff:

Dipl.-Geographer Philipp Aufenvenne

Nina Leimbrink, M.Ed.

Max Pochard (B.A.)
Funding: Expertise and Cooperation for a Basic Inclusion Qualification (EKBI) (Teacher Education Centre), research pool of the University of Osnabrück (UOS)

Collaboration with: 

Teaching Education Centre at the University of Osnabrück

Enst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium

Gymnasium in der Wüste

Möser Realschule am Westerberg

Integrierte Gesamtschule (IGS) Eversburg