Ashoka is the world‘s largest network of Social Innovators, supporting 3.200 „Ashoka Fellows“ around the world.

13 outstanding solutions for the integration of refugees were selected to be presented in Germany.Work and Financial Security Welcoming Culture and Acceptance

Nicole Cicerani, Upwardly Global (USA)

James Movel Wuye, Interfaith Mediation Centre (Nigeria)

Abdoulaye Fall, Winkomun (Spain)

Nathanaël Molle,SINGA (France)

David Lubell,Welcoming America (USA)

Education and Participation

Shai Reshef, University of the People (Israel, global) Living and Health CareMary Nally,Third Age (Ireland)

Inge Missmahl,IPSO (Germany, Afghanistan)

Sascha Haselmayer,Citymart (Spain, USA)

Daniel Kerber,More Than Shelters (Germany)

Charlotte Frey,Climb (Germany)

David Levin,Refugee Open Ware (USA)

Johann Olav Koss,Right To Play (USA)

Two examples of the international Ashoka Fellows selected for Germany.

David Lubell, Welcoming America (USA)•helps cities to set up welcoming committees who then use simple but very effective measures that reduce the fears of its citizens•successful implementation in 115 US cities, in negotiations with multiple German cities

Abdoulaye Fall, Winkomun (Spain)•creates small self-sustaining, immigrant-led financial savings groups•the collected funds can be given out as loans among the group for investments, emergen-cies or setting up businesses and thereby stabilize the migrant community financially•has been successfully applied in six European countries

Ashoka‘s Innovation Conference on Integration was part of the three-day „Hello Festival“ initiated by Zalando.

The Innovation Conference was part of a longer process.

• webinars and weekly preparation calls on scaling models with 45 McKinsey consultants and migration and policy experts

• pre-matching with interesting partners in Germany including public decision makers

• arrangement of 60+ pre-talks with potential partners

Preparation with Experts8 weeks

Matching and Seed Funding through the Innovation Fund8+ weeks

Hello Festival andInnovation Conference

• co-organized with 10+ high-level partners from business, foundations, social welfare organizations & federal ministries

• 400 decision makers as participants

• around 10 nationwide media pieces about the conference or participating social entrepreneurs

• lots of open doors to public decision makers

• more than 220.000 € raised for the “Innovation Fund on Integration”

• post-process to support

The Innovation Conference on Integration

Questions relevant to you

1. Our Ashoka colleagues in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden would like to do the same. How can you help?

2. We are discussing pan-European partnerships, i.e. with UNHCR. Do you have contacts to other multinational organizations interested in scaling proven solutions?

Thank you very much

Rainer HöllManaging DirectorAshoka Germany

rhoell@ashoka.org