Hispi LAB // Learning for Education and Career // Tutoring Support

The aim of our Hispi LAB (Learning for Training and Work) service is to enable trainees and vocational students to keep up with the content of vocational school and to successfully pass the theoretical part of the final exams.

"Hispi" stands for "Help with Linguistic Integration", founded as an independent citizens' initiative in 2015 out of the need to provide refugees with low-threshold access to the German language.  

Since January 2018, "HISPI" has been an independent business division of Sophia::Akademie gGmbH, which has been in existence since 2008. It is a non-profit organisation in North Rhine-Westphalia that supports development processes in the education sector in a sustainable and resource-saving way. 

Language is the most important asset for the newcomers. Many of the refugees and migrants were (and are) unable to afford a language course at a commercial organisation or are not entitled to an integration course. "HISPI" closed this gap and continues to do so today with the commitment of volunteers. Since its foundation, "HISPI" has accompanied more than 2000 people in the use of the German language in only seven and a half years through the dedicated support of more than 400 citizens.

Your Tasks

The committed volunteers are supposed to assist the participants in a 1:1 tutoring situation with the respective homework or the school material to be reworked.

They will clarify the language of the assignment, discuss and, if necessary, correct the language and content of solutions already prepared, address any mathematical difficulties and, if necessary, work on gaps, and also clarify technical problems from politics, economics and the foreign languages taught.

What's needed

The volunteers should (if possible) be German native speakers or speak German very well.

We would like them to have an affinity with the target group of people with a refugee or migration background.

The preparation is not complicated, as the participants bring the material to be covered with them. Any topic can be approached with common sense and interest.

Time required

The tutoring offer takes place on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. The commitment is possible on one or more days.

Hispi stands for help with language integration

Many people who come to Germany are unable to cope with the simplest things in everyday life on their own due to a lack of sufficient language skills - from shopping to dealing with the authorities, they are confronted with almost insurmountable language barriers on a daily basis. In Hispi, we want to ensure that as many migrants as possible have access to the German language and can quickly stand on their own two feet economically. That they can work, earn money and thus become part of our social system.

Hispi, Hilfe bei der sprachlichen Integration was founded in May 2015 as an independent citizens' initiative and has been a division of Sophia:AkademiegGmbH since January 2018.