Our mission is twofold. On the one hand, we work to improve the immediate situation of groups that are discriminated against both in society and on the labour market, including migrants, the socially disadvantaged, offenders serving time, and disabled persons. On the other hand, we orient our efforts around changing societal processes and structures such that people from different cultural backgrounds within Germany and across Europe are able to live together in mutual tolerance and appreciation. This process minimises intercultural conflict.
Minor’s primary focus areas are an examination of current migration processes, but also making constructive contributions to the prevention of extremism, to didactic processes in the media, and in the area of vocational education.

The focus of our projects on the educational side is on combining approaches from pedagogy, therapy, visual arts and media-based education to encourage a society-wide discussion about how to work with and support disadvantaged target groups.

Our work with a wide variety of people is shaped around the participants’ experiences and abilities. In other words, we always seek to establish a participative learning process that is characterised by its experience-based methods, while continually working to encourage the development of individual thinking and idea formation, and skills that will hold their value into the future.

In addition to these focus areas, our expertise also includes consultancy and further education in the fields of labour-market integration for migrants, vocational education for disadvantaged people, community work, the prevention of political extremism, non-violent conflict resolution, youth employment, theatre and music education, intercultural education, as well as transnational and intergenerational work.