"Mit Migranten für Migranten - Interkulturelle Gesundheit (MiMi)" - With Migrants For Migrants – Intercultural Health

n the past 10 years, the EMZ has grown from a local organization to a major national, European and international institution. It has gained political relevance in the fields of health, migration and integration. In some cases, we have contributed significantly to the development of new government policies at national and state level. However, with changes in political environment it may become difficult to maintain the course which might in turn lead to financial bottlenecks. Since the EMZ has increasingly been covering a wider thematic range of services as well as a broader field of activity operational and strategic planning on the board needs to become more sustainable and more effective. We need an enormous amount of conceptual, human/social and strategic know-how to be able to structure and manage processes effectively. Therefore, we need competent board members of national relevance, like former politicians or ministers or deans who require meeting the thematic, political and technical needs of our organization. Moreover, to become independent of political trends the achievements and ongoing work need to be firmly fixed in German/European/global politics and positioned within a financial framework of cooperating agents. Mixed funding should be strived for to diminish financial risks: private enterprises, public funding and foundations as financiers shall provide risk diversification.

Public institutions: state governments of Bavaria, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia are main financiers of MiMi programmes running in several federal states of Germany;
German Universities: Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munic, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Centre for Social Investment and Innovation at the University of Heidelberg, Centre for Turkish Studies and Integration Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, University of Ulm, Hannover Medical School are partners in research projects (surveys) accompanying or associated with MiMi Programme;
Health insurance funds: Company health insurance funds on regional (state) and national level are financiers and partners in all German MiMi programmes;
Companies: Sanofi Pasteur MSD is financier and partner in the MiMi programme running in Lower Saxony (with a focus on vaccine prevention); BMW and Stadtentwässerung München (municipal drainage) were financiers and partners in the 'IBGM programme': We adopted MiMi for the corporate sector as a model for „Health at the Workplace“ in the context of In-Plant Health Management for migrant employees at BMW car factory and Stadtentwässerung München.

Individuals: donors of the non-profitable registered association, the many migrants trained and involved as mediators, community interpreters
Foundations:
NGOs: the many on-site partners, often local caritative or social organizations
Businesses: Sanofi Pasteur MSD, BMW and Stadtentwässerung München are financiers and partners in MiMi programmes or programmes following the MiMi model (see above)
Regional government: state governments of Bavaria, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia are main financiers of MiMi programmes running in several federal states of Germany (see above)
Customers: apart from an interpretation service EMZ is also running a translation office for external customers the revenues og which are used to accommodate budget