Democracy Life

The abbreviation "PfD WOB" stands for the "Partnership for Democracy in Wolfsburg". The PfD is part of the federal program "Live Democracy!" and promotes projects and events to strengthen democracy, tolerance and coexistence in Wolfsburg.

"Demokratie leben!" is a funding program from the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. The Partnership for Democracy in Wolfsburg is part of this program.

The abbreviation "KuF" stands for Koordinierungs- und Fachstelle. It is responsible for advising on applications and organizing projects. In addition, KuF is the first point of contact for all factual and content-related questions concerning the funding program.

The lead office takes care of financial and administrative matters, such as the correct use of funds and the forwarding of these to the projects for funding. In addition, it is the first point of contact for the coordination and technical office and is responsible for the legal and content-related implementation of the project.

The youth forum consists of several young people who meet regularly and plan projects together. The youth forum is open to every young person and additionally serves as a networking opportunity for the young people.

The Monitoring Committee is a regularly meeting body that decides on the funding of major projects. The members are volunteers and come from all areas of Wolfsburg's urban society. The current meeting dates can be found HERE. Currently there are 16 voting members in the committee.

With the help of the Action and Initiative Fund, the Partnership for Democracy can issue grants to projects.

Project applications can only be submitted by sponsors that are organized as a non-profit legal entity (e.g. foundation or registered associations). Initiatives and alliances without a fixed organizational structure as well as individuals cannot submit project applications. However, sponsors can often be found who submit an application on behalf of individuals and forward the money accordingly. The coordination and expert office of the Partnership for Democracy Wolfsburg is available for consultation and contact mediation (refer to our names as a hyperlink). In principle, applicants are always advised to contact the Coordination and Expert Office at an early stage and to seek advice.

All sponsors who wish to receive project funding must be committed to the free democratic basic order.

• Political parties and their youth departments/organizations
• Projects that run across calendars
• Projects already started or already completed
• Actions or projects that are covered by the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act (AsylbLG)
• Projects and actions that do not serve our funding priorities

Projects and actions are supported that take place in Wolfsburg and thereby strengthen local democracy, diversity and tolerance.

(1) Promoting and strengthening engagement relevant to the program.

• Strengthening a vibrant, diverse local democratic civil society
• Establishing and further developing procedures for democratic participation, including developing and testing innovative approaches to participation
• Raising social awareness of right-wing extremist, anti-Semitic or racist activities as well as other phenomena hostile to democracy and the rule of law, and strengthening public engagement against these phenomena
• Activities against phenomena of group-based hostility to people, in particular also against antiziganism, Islamophobia and Muslimophobia and homophobia and transphobia
• Strengthening of self-organization and self-help in the thematic field with increased involvement of migrant self-organizations and Muslim communities
• Developing a culture of support and appreciation for voluntary commitment in all thematic areas of the program, especially in the area of the
• Welcome culture, to reduce resentment and prevent violence, agitation and hostility toward immigrants
• Development of "security and prevention" concepts

(2) Promoting the development of a diverse local culture of coexistence

• Further development of approaches and concepts of intergenerational work
• Promotion of civic engagement and active citizen participation
• Promotion of intercultural and interreligious coexistence
• Promotion of democratic coexistence in the immigration society
• Promotion of the recognition of diverse ways of life (diversity orientation)

(3) Promotion of the handling of program-relevant local problem situations

• Promotion of the ability to react to socio-spatial conflict situations
• Improvement of socio-cultural integration

(4) Additional funding priority "media competence

• Strengthening media resilience to the mechanisms of action of conspiracy theories through education.
• Increasing media literacy and information processing skills among young people and multipliers.

(5) Additional funding priority "Classism

You can find the application documents as download on the website

Project application - Live Democracy! (wolfsburg.de)

The application is automatically sent as a pdf file to the coordination and expert office of the Partnership for Democracy Wolfsburg via the online form. In order to successfully apply for and carry out projects, it is recommended to seek advice from the expert and coordination office (Here is the best link to the contact details ").

In the online form there is the possibility to choose between mini-projects (funding amount up to a maximum of 1,000 euros) and large projects (funding amount over 1,000 euros).

(1) Mini-projects: The mini-projects are checked in the coordination and expert office of the Partnership for Democracy for their formal and content-related correctness. Subsequently, if necessary, a funding recommendation is made and all documents are forwarded to the lead office (located in the administration of the city of Wolfsburg). From there, the projects then receive a funding decision and the funds for the project.

(2) Major projects: Major projects go through the same review process as mini-projects. However, a decision on whether to fund the project is made at a monitoring committee meeting. If the application is approved, the sponsors receive a funding decision and the funds following the monitoring committee meeting.

The application form is designed as broadly as possible to accommodate project applications of different orientations. Not every funding application has to fill out all text fields completely. If you justifiably do not want to invest any work in one area (for example, public relations), this need not be a disadvantage. In case of doubt, please feel free to contact the coordination and technical office.

(1) Funding period

Funding is only granted for the current calendar year (project completion by 31.12 of the current year). Projects must therefore use the funds within the funding year.

(2) Target group

Our target groups are children, young people up to 27 years of age, parents and other guardians, pedagogical specialists, multipliers, and many more.