Type of Project: Funded project Model project
Evaluation and scientific support of the model project Mitarbeit! In Cologne

The Model project: "MitArbeit! In Cologne." is funded by the German government's program for the "intensified integration and counseling of severely disabled people. The model project runs for 36 months from July 2015. Within the framework of the Cologne Alliance for Inclusion with its thirteen partners, five applicants form the operational core for the model project: Jobcenter Cologne, Berufliches Trainingszentrum Köln, Zentrum Bildung und Beruf Michaelshoven, Zug um Zug - Beschäftigung und Qualifizierung gGmbH and Agentur für Arbeit Köln. The measure implementation is to achieve individual integration support explicitly within a cooperating network. The measure aims to activate, qualify and introduce up to 400 participants to the labor market. Objectives: 100 transitions into employment subject to social insurance contributions, company or school training or qualification-related training or vocational rehabilitation; a measurable increase in employability for two-thirds of the participants who have actually completed the project concept; for half of the participants who have not been placed and who have actually completed the project concept, to have developed and, if necessary, already initiated an individually appropriate follow-up perspective. In addition, the model project sets itself the goal in the application concept of having informed "the companies in the Cologne region" and opened them up to the target group of the model measures. After completion of the model project, the employment rate for severely disabled people in Cologne is to have been "increased". To this end, the model project follows a modular structure in three project phases. All components are used in line with the individual case. In phase 1, six different modules of information, anamnesis, profiling and intake interview take place. At the end, a decision is made on admission to phase 2 of case management. There is no automaticity for admission and the transition is based on voluntariness. Phase 2 case management includes up to seven modules: Work training and expert interviews in companies, application and placement coaching, a wide range of qualification offers, but especially individual job coaching including regular counseling sessions, accompanying services and support from the technical advisor of the Cologne Employment Agency. In phase 3, three modules are implemented: the acquisition of individually suitable training or work positions, including company testing, the continuation of individual counseling and group offerings, and accompanying stabilization when employment or vocational training begins. ism e. V.'s task is to provide scientific support by moderating team workshops. The sub-task of evaluation essentially comprises the summative presentation of outputs and outcomes through the use of a suitable mix of methods.