Symposium in the project "Global Transformation and Social Work Practice"

The aim of the four-year DAAD project "Global Transformation and Social Work Practice" (2023-2026) is to establish SDG partnerships (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) between countries of the "Global North" and the "Global South".

The program thus builds on the cooperation between the universities - University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Johannesburg and University of Applied Social Studies Dortmund (FHDO) - which has already been funded over the past four years. The project focuses on questions of global transformation and its effects on social work actors.

Central topics of this discourse include

• Distribution of poverty and wealth in the countries of the Global North and South and consequences for societies
• Influence of colonial rule on the countries of the Global South
• Racism and forms of discrimination as a challenge for social work
• Social work as a human rights profession and the contribution to solving global problems along the Sustainable Development Goals
• Ethnocentrism and Eurocentrism as a challenge for the countries of the Global South
• The opportunities of returning to "indigenous" knowledge for the countries of the Global South and the Global North

Numerous activities are planned in line with this thematic classification of the program.

Encounter is the key to understanding, scientific debate the gateway to knowledge and trust and mutual respect the prerequisite for social justice and peace.