Our mission at the Institute for Integration and Participation is to promote participation in social assets, values, and basic human rights.
Our work focuses on individuals whose social disadvantages restrict their power of self-determination. Our five thematic focuses explore and analyse how social work interventions can support disadvantaged individuals with improving their difficult life-situations and how social participation can be enabled to benefit those in need. We reveal those interconnections, underlying conditions, and solutions that help mitigate or avoid difficult situations.
Individuals in the context of old age
Individuals in the context of disability
Individuals in the context of unemployment
Individuals in the context of HIV
Individuals in the context of migration
Social rights
About us
Institute staff undertake research and development, provide services, run further education programmes, and teach on the FHNW’s Bachelor and Master of Arts in Social Work.
The Institute for Integration and Participation provides the following services:
- Evaluation of new social work approaches and measures
- Analyses of the guidelines underpinning mission statements, concepts, and measures in the area of integration
- Specialised consultancy for disability assistance professionals and organisations in Switzerland
- Concept development
- Accompanying the development of sustainable living environments
- Crisis intervention
- Support with difficult circumstances
- De-escalation counselling in systems involving individuals with challenging behaviour
Contact us! — Our priority is to tailor projects to your specific needs. We take the greatest care to establish your needs, in order to help you achieve your objectives.
Contact
Prof. Dr. Sibylle Nideröst
E-mailTelephoneFHNW School of Social Work, Olten
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
School of Social Work
Von Roll-Strasse 10
CH-4600 Olten