Nora Platiel Prize awarded for the first time

During its summer school, the Research Association for Social Law and Social Policy (FoSS) together with the Association for the Promotion of Research and Knowledge Transfer in Social Law and Social Policy e.V. presented the award. Students from the University of Kassel, the University of Applied Sciences Fulda and the University of Applied Sciences of the Social Accident Insurance in Bad Hersfeld could be nominated. The prize money amounts to 2,000 euros. In addition to high scientific quality, the work should be socially relevant and combine both.

In her award-winning thesis, Fromm deals with the model project "Social Economy Integrated: New opportunities in the social economy - qualification perspectives for migrant women". The project aims to prepare women with a migration background for training in the fields of care, education or home economics. In her final thesis as part of the degree program "Social Work: Interdisciplinary Research in Theory and Practice," she analyzes the connection between gender, migration and education. "It is a great honor for me to be the first recipient of the Nora Platiel Award. During my student days at the University of Kassel, I have always been politically active in the student parliament. Also as a social worker and social scientist, it is my concern to focus on social justice in relation to society in general and in relation to the personal lives of clients*," she explained at the award ceremony. Women with a migration background are still a marginalized group in the labor market, whose diverse cultural, linguistic and individual resources have so far been insufficiently utilized and promoted. Fromm's work was therefore concerned with highlighting the needs, but also the potential, of migrant and refugee women and addressing them as a target group for labor market integration projects.

Prof. Dr. Anne Walter, a member of the six-member jury, is pleased that it was possible to find a scientifically demanding master's thesis with a socially highly relevant topic, which at the same time establishes practical relevance and enables a transfer of knowledge. "The thesis of the first prize winner also has a direct link to the life themes of the prize's namesake. We are also very pleased that Prof. Dr. Sabine Hering could be won as laudator for this first awarding of the Nora Platiel Prize," said the legal scholar.

The prize is named after the lawyer and social democrat Nora Platiel (1896-1979). After exile in Paris and Zurich, she returned to Germany in 1949 and settled in Kassel. Here she worked at the Regional Court and the Higher Regional Court and became Kassel's first Regional Court Director. From 1954 to 1966 she was a member of the state parliament for the SPD and for several years was deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group. There she earned the reputation of being "the best speaker in parliament." With her socio-political and legal commitment in Kassel as well as in Hesse in general, she is considered a role model for young academics.