One of the key objectives of social work is to promote, preserve, and restore integration. The Institute for Integration and Partizipation (IIP) explores the processes involved in the discrimination and exclusion of individuals in our society, and those enabling integration and participation.  It also studies the possibilities of social work intervention, aimed at promoting, preserving and restoring the participation of disadvantaged individuals in different systems and ensuring their access to social resources.

Our work focuses on individuals whose participation in our society is under particular threat, especially

• Individuals in the context of disability
• Individuals in the context of HIV
• Individuals in the context of migration
• Individuals in the context of unemployment

Our staff

• undertakes research and development 
• brings its expertise to the BA / MA Social Work modules
• provides a wide range of consultancy services, for instance evaluating new social work procedures and measures, conducting analyses to ground mission statements and guiding principles, devising integration concepts and measures, offering specialist advice to professionals and organisations working with the disabled in Switzerland (concept development, monitoring the development of sustainable living spaces, crisis intervention, counselling individuals experiencing burdensome circumstances or escalation resulting from individuals displaying challenging behaviour)
• brings its expertise to various continuing education opportunities, including the MAS Disability and Participation, MAS Social Law, DAS Integration Management, CAS Social Science Research, and various specialist seminars.

Contact

Head of Institute
Prof. Dr. Claudia Daigler
T +41 62 311 96 80
claudia.daigler@fhnw.ch

Institute Office
Julia Bannwart
T +41 62 311 95 52
julia.bannwart@fhnw.ch

and

Esther Pfister-Studer
T +41 62 311 95 02
esther.pfister@fhnw.ch

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