See where Berlin was cut in two overnight by the Berlin Wall on this excellent two-hour walking tour. Experience a time when Berlin was divided into the capitalist west and the communist east. Uncover life in East Germany, where neighbours were encouraged to spy on one another and escaping across the Berlin Wall was a deadly temptation.

Glass Threads is an interactive comic app about the history of Vietnamese contract workers in the former GDR. What was their life like back then, what was their experience of a country which was so completely different from their home and what is their life like now? Bich Tran and Frauke Wetzel, co-creators of the app, will present the project’s goals and ways of working with the app. Glasfaeden.de is available in English, Vietnamese and German and all you need is your mobile phone and an internet connection.

This tour is accessible for wheelchair users.

During the visit to the migrant organisation La Red e. V., staff members will present the use of social media in their daily work in the framework of their Network IQ projects for companies and for migrants seeking advice on the recognition of foreign qualifications. Visitors will be guided through various office rooms, where staff members will present how they advise people via social media, which topics move migrants, and what skills the migrant organisation provides to small companies to support them in their search for international qualified workers. This will always include current circumstances and developments.

Over an aperitif on the terrace of the organisation, La Red e. V. will be happy to answer your questions and engage with you in conversation about your activities.

This tour is accessible for wheelchair users.

Located in the vibrant and international neighbourhood of Wedding, you will find the integration centre of Club Dialog e.V. - a place of exchange, integration, qualification, recognition and empowerment for migrants of all generations and nationalities, but especially those from Eastern European countries. Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, English, Hungarian, Serbian, Italian, Russian and Kurdish are spoken here. There is a special focus on the Network IQ recognition office - for the recognition of professional qualifications acquired outside of Germany. Furthermore, we offer broad consultation on adapting to the German education system and the German job market.

This tour is accessible for wheelchair users.

Migrants and refugees are especially vulnerable to poor working conditions. Berliner Beratungszentrum für Migration und Gute Arbeit offers individual information and advice as well as workshops on employment rights in Berlin. Accompanied by facts and figures, we will share our hands-on experience and structural insights on the subject. We are keen to hear your questions and perspectives.

Better collection and impartial analysis of relevant and reliable migration data are needed in order to improve migration management and policy. Additionally, communicating the evidence in an approachable manner is crucial to promoting an informed debate on migration issues. During this study tour, you will have the opportunity to gain an understanding of the work of GMDAC’s flagship initiatives, including the:

• Global Migration Data Portal
• Missing Migrants Project
• Migration Governance Indicators (MGI)

as well as of data capacity development, data innovation, migration data for the SDGs, and impact evaluation of migration information campaigns. Participants will also be able to discuss with migration data specialists about the real-world implications of data on policymaking.

This tour is accessible for deaf people (please register until 22 August).

Are you interested in how the climate crisis is increasingly affecting jobs and the working world? If so, then join the study tour at LIFE e.V. in Berlin’s Friedenau locality! Get to know our CHANGE project in which we train women with degrees from foreign universities to become “climate ambassadors” and try out our “make-green parcours” together with other participants. You can find out how an ecologically sustainable change in society also brings about dynamic changes in the professional and working world.

This tour is accessible for deaf people (please register until 28 August) and wheelchair users.

As a former city of residence, Berlin was directly involved in the transatlantic enslavement trade for a few years in the late 17th century. 200 years later, at the time of the infamous Berlin West Africa Conference of 1884–85, it became the capital of a German colonial empire in Africa, Oceania and Asia. Both chapters of Berlin’s urban history were suppressed for many decades. We set out to find their traces, which were only marked and critically contextualised through the engagement of people who are still affected by colonial racism today.

Muhammed’s tour leads through Kreuzberg, which he, as an activist, freelance journalist, social worker and resident, knows like the back of his hand. Along the way, you will learn to what extent the upheavals of the European asylum system are becoming visible in this district and how old and new Berliners shape their neighbourhood together. The tour is presented by querstadtein. On the organisation’s tours, people who are usually the ones being talked about have their say.

This tour is accessible for wheelchair users.

In Iraq, Ahmed worked as an official in the city administration — until he had to flee the violence in 2015. On his tour, he shows the most prominent places in the heart of Berlin and explains how they relate to global power relations and his own migration history. The city tour is presented by querstadtein. On the organisation’s tours, people who are usually the ones being talked about have their say.