On November 16, the anthology *Neighborhood Work in a Diverse Society* will be published by Barbara Budrich. The volume, edited by Anna Kasten, brings together papers from a conference held in March 2025 at the EAH Jena under the same title.
One of the articles is based on a theory-practical experience project from the bachelor’s degree program in Social Work at hsrm. In this two-semester project, 15 students explored the concept of “caring communities” and, based on empirical data, developed a toolkit to support neighborhoods and municipalities in creating such communities. Part of the group—Anna Gerhardt, Shadi Mahan, Franziska Schindling, and Sabrina Weiss, along with their supervising professor, Julia Hahmann—presented the project’s findings at the conference in Jena and subsequently wrote the anthology contribution “Caring Communities as a Neighborhood Care Arrangement: Results of a Student Teaching-Research Project.”