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Arbeit und Leben Hamburg is a 50-year-old adult education organisation, maintained by the German Trade Union Federation and the Volkshochschulen (an institution offering adult education). Arbeit und Leben offers courses in: trade union studies, social and political studies, intercultural training, vocational training for unemployed and specially unqualified people, and international youth exchange.

Arbeit und Leben Hamburg organises more than 200 courses annually with more than 2500 participants. There are now 40 full- and part-time staffs working at Arbeit und Leben Hamburg. Arbeit und Leben has a large network of foreign adult education institutions all over Europe and also non- European partners. Arbeit und Leben Hamburg has conducted several international training projects in Europe with continental and Nordic partners in the field of social and political education.

The Mobility Agency of Arbeit und Leben Hamburg is sending participants from Hamburg to a number of European countries and support these persons by giving them a special preparatory course. We also receive participants from all over Europe in different branches, support and supervise them, organize language course and social cultural programme, manage the accommodation, arrange for qualified placements in the companies and evaluate the programme. Arbeit und Leben Hamburg is certified by DIN ISO 9001-2000 since 2007.