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Our Identity and Mission
The Arbeitsgemeinschaft Selbstständiger Migranten
e.V. (ASM) is a non-profit organisation aimed
at contributing to the successful integration
of immigrants via the educational and vocational
training programmes it offers in Hamburg.
To achieve this objective the organisation concentrates
on providing support to entrepreneurs with immigration
backgrounds in particular.
Our Values
We believe in living together in harmony and work
to promote understanding between peoples.
We respect the dignity of each and every individual
irrespective of social and cultural origins, regardless
of religion, gender and age.
We appreciate the differences between Germans
and people from other countries on the basis of
free democratic values.
We have a great deal of respect for the work and
achievements of self-employed immigrants against
the background of a German majority society.
Our cooperation as a team is informed by mutual
appreciation, openness, transparency and reciprocal
support.
Our Customers
We seek to assist persons wishing to found a business,
the self-employed, business people, trainees and
apprentices, and employees of all nationalities.
Our general goals
With ASM:
We contribute to increasing market transparency
among the self-employed of foreign origin and
to stabilising companies run by immigrants.
As such, we ensure that immigrants successfully
participate in society as a whole.
For ASM:
We will use a professional approach to achieve
a high level of recognition over the next few
years, growing to become a valued expert contact
for questions and issues facing immigrants in
the business community.
Abilities
We possess expert specialised, interpersonal and
social skills and are experienced in both project
and intercultural work.
Our Services
We offer customers information, advice, support
and target-group specific educational opportunities
such as seminars, presentations and other types
of events.
Via open internal and external communication we
make the needs and potential of our target group
visible in society and in the business community.
Our resources
Personnel:
The different social origins, socialisation and
professional experience of the members of the
ASM team allows for a multiplicity of perspectives
and approaches when meeting our professional obligations
and designing our working day. In key areas, the
ASM can build on the experience of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft
türkischer Unternehmer und Existenzgründer
e.V. (Working Group of Turkish Entrepreneurs,
ATU).
We value as a key resource the volunteer work
of our board members and founders who actively
pursue the organisation's interests, in particular
as information multipliers.
Materials:
Funds from projects, memberships dues and donations
Infrastructure:
The Arbeitsgemeinschaft selbstständiger Migranten
is housed in a centrally-located office that is
well-furnished and boasts excellent technical
equipment. We are easy for clients to reach and
our team enjoys optimal working conditions.
We consider a learning process to have been
a success …
…if it builds on participants' existing skills,
makes these visible, and expands on them to the
advantage of professional integration.
The results of a successful learning process are
the expansion of participants' sense of orientation
and their ability to act in a professional and
intercultural setting in particular.
We consider our services to have been successful
when self-employment and professional perspectives
lead to participation in society and as such to
successful integration.
(Stand 01.01.2008)
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