DeZIM_talk: What Kinds of Day­care Cen­ters Do Child­ren Need Now and in the Future?

We cor­di­ally invite you to our evening event, “What Kinds of Day­care Cen­ters Do Child­ren Need Now and in the Future?” The event will take place on Febru­ary 13, 2025, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., fol­lo­wed by a get-tog­e­ther at the Ger­man Cen­ter for Inte­gra­tion and Migra­tion Rese­arch (DeZIM). The goal is to dis­cuss the cur­rent and future needs of child­care cen­ters in the con­text of post-migrant socie­ties and struc­tu­ral challenges. 

In an era marked by a shortage of skil­led workers, rising expec­ta­ti­ons regar­ding the edu­ca­tio­nal mis­sion of day­care cen­ters, and chan­ging socie­tal demands, early child­hood edu­ca­tion sys­tems face signi­fi­cant chal­lenges. Issues such as the pro­fes­sio­nal deve­lo­p­ment of day­care staff, the dis­ad­van­tage faced by cer­tain groups, bar­riers to access, and pro­ces­ses of segre­ga­tion require in-depth dis­cus­sion and inno­va­tive solutions. 

In light of the upco­ming fede­ral elec­tions, it is clear that the needs of children—and espe­ci­ally their rights—are given little atten­tion in party plat­forms. This over­looks the far-rea­ching signi­fi­cance that day­care cen­ters have for society as a whole. Against this back­drop, we would like to invite you to a policy dis­cus­sion to high­light the signi­fi­cant needs for action that curr­ently exist in the areas of child-rea­ring, edu­ca­tion, and childcare. 

We are invi­ting experts from the fields of poli­tics, aca­de­mia, and the pro­fes­sio­nal sec­tor to par­ti­ci­pate in this important dia­lo­gue. Tog­e­ther, we would like to dis­cuss short- and medium-term oppor­tu­ni­ties for streng­thening child­care cen­ters and how these can be implemented. 

Pro­gram

Ope­ning Remarks: Dr. Sey­ran Bos­tancı (DeZIM Insti­tute, “Net­work for Joint Efforts to Com­bat Dis­cri­mi­na­tion in Early Child­hood Edu­ca­tion (GeDAB)”)

Panel Dis­cus­sion:

• Kath­rin Bock-Famulla (Ber­tels­mann Foundation) 
• Prof. Rahel Dreyer (Alice Salo­mon Uni­ver­sity of Applied Sci­en­ces, Berlin) 
• Sonja Zip­per ( Cari­tas Asso­cia­tion for the Arch­dio­cese of Ber­lin, Inc.) 
• Dr. Sey­ran Bos­tancı (DeZIM Institute) 
• Bas­tian Walt­her (Insti­tute for Demo­cra­tic Deve­lo­p­ment and Social Integration) 

Mode­ra­tor: Dr. Nke­chi Madu­buko (Rese­arch Asso­ciate, Cen­ter for Rese­arch on Racism, Uni­ver­sity of Marburg)

We look for­ward to a sti­mu­la­ting dis­cus­sion with you and to explo­ring ways tog­e­ther that will meet the needs of child care centers. 

The event is being orga­ni­zed in coope­ra­tion with the Ger­man League for Child­ren and the Ber­tels­mann Foun­da­tion and the Auri­dis Foun­da­tion .