About Us
The Municipal Integration Center Cologne is one of five departments in the Office for Integration and Diversity in the Mayor's Department.
What we do
Our target group includes all people with an international family history in Cologne, and our task is to enable these people to participate equally, i.e. to have equal access to all important pillars of society throughout their lives. At the same time, it is our task to take an active stand against racism and all other forms of discrimination.
In addition to education, training and employment, these pillars also include equal opportunities to participate in leisure and cultural activities as well as in health and counseling systems.
The projects, programs and tasks coordinated and supported by the team at the Cologne Municipal Integration Center in collaboration with cooperation partners in the city administration of Cologne and beyond are correspondingly wide-ranging.
Another important field of activity is to support structures and organizations such as voluntary work or migrant organizations that offer support structures for our target group.
We also focus on supporting and further developing the intercultural and migrant-oriented opening of the administration. We support the further development of Cologne's "Concept for strengthening the integrative urban society".
Concept to strengthen the integrative urban society
The Cologne Municipal Integration Center is a state-funded department of the Cologne city administration. It is supported by both the Ministry for Children, Youth, Family, Equality, Refugees and Integration and the Ministry for Schools and Education.
Ministry for Children, Youth, Family, Equality, Refugees and Integration
Our team
Eden Araya-Gabriel
Head of Intercultural Service

Neslihan Arikan
Specialist Coordination of Intercultural Opening of Senior Citizens' Work Management Center for Multilingualism and Integration (ZMI)
Leyla Bakhtiosin
Geschäftsstelle | Gremiensachbearbeitung
Marina Berger
Specialist coordination of extracurricular education
Boris Boie
Teacher / lateral entry

Carmen Bulduk
Lindenthal district

Irmgard Coerschulte
Teacher/Page entry
Serap Cosgun
Assistance
Birgit Dechene-Bartschat
Integration pilot project, pool of language mediators

Dr. Gülşen Dikbaş
Sachgebietsleitung | Geschäftsführung des Ausschusses für Chancengerechtigkeit und Integration | Leitung der Geschäftsstelle Runder Tisch für Flüchtlingsfragen
Laura Dos Santos
Intercultural centers

Elcin Ekinci
Management ZMI, racism-critical work
Sabine Enderlein
Office

Sharon Essink
Specialist coordination for housing

Elena Gimbarova
Assistance

Resan Gündogan
Kalk district

Lydia Hackenbroich
Mülheim district
Ursula Haller-Vetter
Geschäftsstelle | Gremiensachbearbeitung
Andreas Hartmann
Strategic management of the counseling landscape for people with an international family history / case management in Cologne
Britta Hollmann
Management Intercultural Centers

Ursula Hübenthal
Porz district

Ali Can Ilhan
Teacher / lateral entry

Marie Noelle Kaiser
Kalk district

Sabine Kolping
Migrant organizations, Conference Intercultural Cologne

Christiana Krack
Trainee
Vera Ludwig
Social worker
Ekaterine Meiering-Mikadze
Assistance

Claudia Miranda
Rodenkirchen district
Lena Mishkin
KIM project coordination
Maria del Carmen Morgado Peinado
Mülheim district
Alexis Nano
Förderprogramme Ehrenamt, Mindeststandards

Johanna Niederwettberg
Teacher / lateral entry
Tracy Ouma-Schlipp
Nippes district

Zuzanna Pacek
Nippes district
Anne Peters
Specialist coordination of early childhood education

Corinna Radermacher
Intercultural opening of the administration

Torsten Rex
Head of Education | Deputy Head of Department

Carolin Ritterbex
Operational coordination of case management at the independent providers (KIM Module II)

Ali Samadi
KIM project coordination

Petra Schall
Head of municipal integration management

Caroline Stolpe
Förderprogramme Ehrenamt, Mindeststandards
Sevinç Topal
Head of Department Municipal Integration Center | Deputy Head of Office

Ibrahim Turhan
Teacher / lateral entry
Martina von der Kall
Teacher / lateral entry

Sabine Vascellari
City center district
Nicole Werk
Ehrenfeld district

Birgit Werning
Head of Participation, Volunteering, Health, Senior Citizens, Housing

Manuela Wetzlar
Specialist coordination of intercultural opening Health
Nilai Wilken
Teacher/Page entry

Reyhan Yesilbag-Zerhouni
Chorweiler district (Riphahnstraße branch)
Lena Zdunek
Side entry secondary level II





























