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26. November 2020

Exactly 5 years ago today, the then Augsburg Social Affairs Officer Stefan Kiefer, TU Munich Professor Dr. Helmut Krcmar as well as those responsible from Tür an Tür officially presented the Integreat-App in and for the city of Augsburg. A lot has happened since 2015. In addition to the city of Augsburg, we now work together with 70 other municipalities. Only the goal has not changed: We want to make it easier for people to arrive in a new region. […]

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10. November 2020

Thanks to the cooperation with the TU Dortmund University we have more positive news! A new team is forming in Dortmund. Thus there is now an official Integreat team at a fourth location in addition to Augsburg, Regensburg and Berlin. Three jobs can be created there until the end of the year. So we were able to win three new software developers for us! Job Funding via DAAD The positions are funded by the DAAD programme “Welcome” – Students helping […]

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1. October 2020

Once a quarter we organise an internal Integreat conference. This brings together all full-time and voluntary employees. We work directly on the strategic orientation of the Integreat platform. At the same time the different teams network with each other. Normally the conference takes place at the TU Munich. This time, however, we have chosen Augsburg. Here we were able to take the Corona guidelines into account more effectively. With a great deal of distance and ventilation rules, we discussed, among […]

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24. August 2020

Benefit from changed content without having to maintain it yourself – that is the idea behind the “live content” function. The live content is therefore an intelligent copy-paste variant. Instead of manually adapting information here, relevant information is centrally provided and above all updated by the Integreat team. The local authorities thus also profit directly from all updates. All you have to do is use the live content function. In the context of the Corona pandemic, many communities benefited from […]

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17. August 2020

One of the greatest added values in Integreat is the easy to manage translations. Several options are available here for cities and administrative districts to maintain and publish Integreat in as many foreign languages as desired. An intelligent translation management is available so that the effort for the municipalities does not increase propotionally. Thus the system independently remembers which contents have changed since the last update of the translations and, in addition, offers standardised interfaces to translation agencies. The classic […]

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6. August 2020

Thousands and thousands of pieces of information buzz through the Internet every day. Some of this information is in the form of well-prepared news and reports. On the other hand, we can just as quickly find so-called “fake news”, conspiracy theories or simply badly researched information. The trust in digital information suffers most from this. So our task is to provide for a higher trustworthiness of Integreat. Even if research and practice have not yet found a panacea for credibility. […]

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