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The first intercultural garden in Berlin is located in the district Treptow-Köpenick. Within a year this area of 4000 square meters turned into a site in which people from Kazakhstan and Vietnam, from Russia, Egypt and Hungary, from India and Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Bosnia and Germany are jointly active and engaged. On the 21st of June, 2003, in presence of a large platform of international guests and participants, the garden was officially opened. The "public" showed a lot of interest and awareness. There was a lot of approval and even impulses for more gardens, which have since then been arising in the district and beyond as intercultural gardens.
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The initiative Intercultural Gardens Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg exists since September 2003. It consists of a working group of 15-20 people, mostly living in this part of Berlin or working here, many coming from social, cultural or ecological backgrounds, though this is not a requirement.
In September 2004 the first bushes and shrubs could be planted after the earth was exchanged.
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The area "Gleisdreieck", where the Rosenduft Garten is located, is the biggest waste-land area in the middle of Berlin. It is planned that this area will become a park.
The association "Südost Europa" (South-East Europe) campaigned for over three years to get a space for a garden project for interested women from former Yugoslavia.
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The Prinzessinnengarten, operated by the nonprofit GmbH Nomadisch Grün is a mobile organic and social urban farm located at Moritzplatz in Berlin. Since the summer of 2009 it has devoloped on a 6000-squaremeter vacant lot in close cooperation with the Prinzessinnengarten’s neighbors. Here not only local food is produced, there is also an intercultural exchange, biological diversity is cultivated and technical training in do it yourself initiatives are developed.
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Since spring 2007, Bonn, the former capital, which today has 314,000 inhabitants, also has its own international garden. For the past several years the "Wissenschaftsladen Bonn e. V." (Bonn Science Shop, Inc.) a non-profit association for citizen oriented knowledge-transfer, has been lobbying in the political arena for the basic idea to create a horticultural project for Bonn's immigrant families.
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Being a place in which integration and learning processes take place, the garden offers an unique chance for immigrants to actively take part in the process of orientating and positioning themselves in their new home, and furthermore to learn German. It gives them the possibility to share their personal history with others, to exchange their knowledge and to apply their skills. Since April 2003, the garden in the multicultural town centre of Dessau is being rebuild into a "Paradise garden", in cooperation with immigrants, students and members of various associations.
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In January 2005 the association "Dresden International Gardens, Inc." was founded – an intercultural association for the promotion of self-initiated activities, integration and social development." The founding members – people with immigrant backgrounds as well as Germans – were united by the idea, to create in the urban setting a green oasis, a place for "culture" to happen. The "Dresden International Garden" wanted a space for self-initiated activities by all parties involved, as well as for the exchange of knowledge.
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The "International Gardens association" in Göttingen is the mother project of the Intercultural Gardens in Germany. The idea of this project arose during a lunch meeting of a group of Bosnian women in the Women's Café in the Göttingen Refugee Advice Centre. The women felt that, in the long run, they needed to be doing more than "simply drinking tea and making table decorations".
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Hamburg's Wilhelmsburg district has 40.000 inhabitants. The families that have been there for a long while have traditionally practiced farming or horticulture. With industrialization, big shipyards developed along the coast. With them came Polish or Russian longshoremen, who settled in Wilhelmsburg. Since the 50's, for the first time Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Yugoslavian, Greek and Turkish families came there. Today people from 40 nations live together in Wilhelmsburg.
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Small but nice, that is our community garden in the Konstanz‘quarter Berchen-Oehmdwiesen. In a densely built residential area on a piece of fallow land, a – in every aspect- colourful garden was set up in just a few months. Since 2011 the garden is in full bloom, taken care of by the non-profit association ‘Miteinander in Konstanz e.V.’.
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The Project "Bunte Gärten Leipzig", that was launched in 2002, focuses especially on the integration of asylum seekers and refugees into the everyday life in Germany. It offers intercultural interaction and promotes the communication and cooperation between the immigrants and the local population.
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The "Münchner Gärten der Kulturen" association was founded in Spring 2004 and is supported by a large platform of municipal representatives of Munich, local churches as well as religious and refugee organisations.
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The ZAK Association "Active Together in Neuperlach", an association for community work and district organization wants to assist in the redesign of a livelier and friendlier Neuperlach, the Munich satellite community, and to improve the social and cultural relations, by amongst other things:
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