Ankommen und mitgestalten – Ukrainerinnen und Ukrainer in Deutschland
- Location:
- Rathaus Stuttgart - Kleiner Sitzungssaal, Marktplatz (M) 1, 70173 Stuttgart
- Date
- July 11, 2025, 3:30 PM
How can Ukrainian refugees successfully arrive in Germany? What conditions must be met so that integration can be actively shaped rather than just managed? The panel discussion at Stuttgart City Hall will address these questions.
Program:
15:30 | Get together in the town hall
16:00 | Welcome and opening with Dr. Frédéric Stephan (Head of the city's External Relations Department) and Dr. Carola Hausotter (Director of Studies at the Evangelical Academy Bad Boll)
4:15 p.m. | Panel discussion "Arriving and helping to shape - Ukrainians in Germany" - Part 1: Labour market and education
with Dr. Theresa Koch (Institute for Employment Research), Larysa Marchenko (lawyer) and Dr. Verena Andrei (Welcome Center Stuttgart)
Moderation: Dr. Carola Hausotter, Pastor Albrecht Knoch
17:15 | Panel discussion "Arriving and helping to shape - Ukrainians in Germany" - Part 2: Integration
with Ayse Özbabacan (Head of the city's Integration Policy Department), Natalia Pokhyliuk (ABLE - Act.Build.Lead.Engage association), Hendrik Beese (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees)
Moderation: Pastor Albrecht Knoch, Dr. Carola Hausotter and Afina Albrecht (Bürgerstiftung Stuttgart)
Markus Priesterath summarizes the most important results at the end.
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The panel discussion also takes place in the context of the solidarity partnership between Stuttgart and the Ukrainian city of Khmelnytskyi, which was established in spring 2023. The partnership reaffirms Stuttgart's support for Ukraine - politically, in humanitarian terms and in terms of civil society. The aim is to provide concrete help, promote long-term exchange and also deepen understanding of the realities of life for Ukrainian refugees in Stuttgart and Germany.
The event at the Bad Boll Academy is supported by ABLE e.V., the Church Service in the Working World (KDA) and the Ukrainian Studio for Culture and Sport e.V. as well as the External Relations Department of the City of Stuttgart.