Save the date: ASSIST “Bear”-Excursion to Giengen on the 14th. June 2025

Giengen is the birth place of Margarete Steiff, who together with her nephew Richard is known as the creator of the famous Steiff Teddy Bear and many other animal friends. The visit to the Steiff Museum is a dreamlike trip back to childhood times. We had so much fun to learn about the Teddy Bear story, see many exhibits, hugging huge bears, taming tigers and even riding elephants! And the shop was certainly a challenge to everybody not to stress our budgets too much!

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Blog: ASSIST Event “Cooking together” on 9th November 2024

ASSIST Cooking Event #2
What a great evening! It’s Saturday night in the spacious kitchen of the Ulm Family Education Centre. It smells delicious and tempting. The potatoes are steaming away in the steamers and the veg meat is roasting in the oven. Young women and men are cutting vegetables and kneading dough. We’re in the middle of the second ASSIST cooking event and we’re taking a look inside some of the pots.

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Blog: ASSIST is not just excursions! 

In addition to our activities on excursions and events, ASSIST also offers support in learning German in tandems.
This is not German lessons in the classical format but is based on personal exchange of topics determined by the learner. 
The focus is on the ability to hear, understand, interpret and use language in response.
Therefore, we focus on communication in German, the existing gaps are supplemented with English and also with the explanation in German.
This is intended to overcome barriers to speak in German.

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