“Jamal al-Khatib – Mein Weg!” and “NISA x Jana” are two participatory peer-to-peer street work projects by “turn – Verein für Gewalt- und Extremismusprävention”. The idea is to give the participating adolescents and young adults (some of whom are dropouts of the jihadist or neo-salafist scene) the opportunity to get involved in a discourse that is usually held about them – but not with them. Against this background, the question arises to what extent the participatory, inclusive approach of the two projects can be transferred to people with exclusion experiences of another kind.

In the course of the bachelor project, the students are to develop (concepts for) online campaigns that support the inclusion processes of affected persons based on the methods of narrative biography work and online street work. The (concepts for) online campaigns can be directly implemented, for example, to support existing offline initiatives, or they can serve as the basis for master projects or project proposals. The strength of a democracy can be measured by its level of inclusiveness, which makes it important to counteract power structures that prevent supposedly weaker groups from partaking in social life. Online campaigns that are based on a participatory approach offer the opportunity to create a high level of awareness with a manageable amount of effort and resources. This is a first step towards concrete political measures and civil commitment with social solidarity.