MOSCA Project Competition 2018

As part of a project competition, MOSCA is offering schools as well as kindergartens and non-profit associations from the Neckar-Odenwald, Rhein-Neckar and Odenwald districts the opportunity to apply for the fourth time with creative and unique project ideas to receive financial support for social and integrative projects. From a total of 35 applications, six different projects were finally chosen, which were subsidised with varying amounts between 250€ and 2,850€ and are presented in more detail below.

Oberschefflenz primary school considers language as a means of integration and therefore convinced this year with its project "Media concept for children with a migration background", for which it received a donation of over 250€. Following the motto "Together in a learning group and yet completely individually", the children are provided with iPads with learning apps and programmes with which they can practise and deepen classroom topics and learning content. The focus is on supporting the children on their individual learning path. The learning programmes "German as a Second Language" are intended to help children with a migration background improve their German language skills and thus integrate more quickly into the group. The complicated German grammar is to be taught in a motivating way. A basic framework for this concept already exists, but is to be further expanded with the help of the donation.

Likewise, a joint school library of the Pestalozzi-Realschule in Mosbach and the Nicolaus-Kistner-Gymnasium has existed for several years. However, it has not been used as intensively as desired, which is why it was renovated a year ago. The rather old-fashioned equipment at that time was replaced by more modern ones, just as old books were sorted out and new ones were purchased. The library is already being used more and more by the pupils in the lower grades. The two "library girls", as a teacher at the secondary school affectionately describes two pupils, give out books, tidy them up again and sort the entire library stock. MOSCA supports this project with a donation of 500€. This will be used to further expand the common library and also to purchase books for the upper grades so that sufficient reading material can be made available for all age groups.

Another secondary school, the Realschule Eberbach, also received a donation of € 1,000 for its project "Transylvania with a Bite - a Group of Students Explores the Land and People of Transylvania". Behind this name is a cultural excursion to Pretai - a small village in Romania. There, a group of pupils will spend a week in Transylvania and explore the centuries-old culture of the people living there. In addition, the young people will do a lot of work to spruce up the Pretai church castle and sing, make music and do handicrafts with the Roma children who live there. The main purpose of this excursion is to broaden the horizons of the young adults, to provide new impressions and, last but not least, to teach intercultural skills as well as openness and tolerance. The amount donated will primarily be used to help students with limited financial means and thus enable them to take part in this trip. Furthermore, the amount donated will be used to finance handicraft and writing materials for the Roma children in order to reduce the overall costs.

The highest donation, totalling €2,850, went to the "Pink Floyd: The Wall" project of the St. Kilian children's and youth home in Walldürn. The result of the project will be a performance of the musical "The Wall" in November 2019. The content is about the teenager "Pink" who isolates himself from the outside world and builds a wall around himself. This wall will be erected in the course of the concert between the musicians and the audience in the form of a projection screen. The aim is to incorporate numerous small contributions from the students and thus create a large work of art that will ultimately be presented on the wall. In the course of the story, the pupils will also deal with various topics such as loneliness, loss, depression and social exclusion. This is intended to bring people from different life situations and different generations together and thus promote understanding for each other. The donation from MOSCA GmbH made it possible for the children's and youth home to participate in this project in the first place - accordingly, the joy at the award ceremony was very great.

SV 1929 Wagenschwend e.V. was also pleased to receive support totalling € 2,000 for the "Bambini Playroom" project. The little athletes will particularly benefit from this project: The multifunctional room in the Wagenschwend sports house is to be set up as a Bambini playroom so that the little ones do not have to miss out on their training even in bad weather or in winter. The donation will mainly be used for play and gymnastics equipment, such as gym mats, ropes or rings. Storage facilities and a music box for the children will also be purchased.  The MOSCA management has already been invited to a first joint gymnastics session and games with the bambinis.

Last but not least, the project "Redesign of the play and meeting place at the Limespfad in Trienz" of the Förderverein Kinder und Jugend Fahrenbach e.V. convinced the jury of the competition and received a donation of 1,000 €. The playground and meeting place was inaugurated in 2003 and has been "spruced up" every year since then, as the ravages of time have also left their mark here. In the meantime, however, the "watchtower" had to be demolished for safety reasons. With the financial support of MOSCA, it is now to be rebuilt and the site equipped with further elements, among others on the theme of "Romans", which is to be taken up again due to the immediate proximity to the course of the historical Limes. In the future, intergenerational offers, such as outdoor fitness equipment, as well as possibilities for people with limited mobility are to be created.