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Our Mission

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

Global Transformation and
Social Work Practice

The aim of the 4 year program (2023 – 2026) is to build SDG-partnerships (United Nations Sustain­able Development Goals) between countries of the “Global North” and the “Global South”.

The content of the 4 year project focuses on questions of global transformation and its effects on social work actors. Central topics of this discourse are, among others:

  • 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 professionals.
  • Social work as a human rights profession and the contribution to solving global problems along the lines of the Sustainable Development Goals.
  • Ethnocentrism and Eurocentrism as a challenge for the countries of the Global South.
  • The chances of a return to “indigenous” knowledge for the countries of the Global South and the Global North.
  • Along this thematic classification of the program, numerous activities like exchange programs, symposiums and workshops are planned, among others:
  • Building a foundation for future strategic cooperation between the participating universities.

The program is a continuation of the IFBC cooperation between the universities -University of KwaZulu-Natal UKZN and University of Applied Sciences Dortmund (FHDO) – and is now going further with the University of Johannesburg UJ and the Midland State University of Harare in Zimbabwe.