The department plans to offer supported inclusion counseling by students as part of their bachelor degree program. In an initial master's project in 2015/16, the project carried out a needs assessment in collaboration with regional social service organizations. Both users of Social Work and Social Workers identified a demand for low-threshold counseling and support, as well as for referral knowledge and legal information. At the same time, preliminary work began to integrate professionally supervised student counseling into the bachelor degree curriculum.

The current master's project aims to continue this work. The research focuses on the implementation of this newly established inclusion counseling service and the development of professional networks with social counseling institutions. With the implementation of inclusion counseling in the bachelor degree program in Social Work, the Department of Social Sciences has entered new curricular territory and is addressing very specific challenges in higher education didactics.

The research-based support of the project reviews and modifies its implementation and promotes further development. Students engage with questions of social counseling to pursue the goal of improving inclusion opportunities for clients, aligning the service with the field of social care, and exploring forms of guided learning by doing. In doing so, they gain a comprehensive understanding of the design and planning of a social support service, the professional requirements, and its integration into an existing landscape of services.