ZIM is a central contact point for migrants, a center for networking, integration and transparency of various offers. It is a lively house with multi-cultural offerings - the first of its kind in Thuringia. It ensures better integration. The center provides complex practical and community-oriented integration aid to improve language and social, professional and social integration. In this way it supports and promotes self-help and organizational skills of migrants and repatriates and avoids social conflicts by strengthening and promoting the readiness to welcome and accept of "strangers" in the local population. The six associations of ZIM aim at tearing down walls in the heads and improve integration of resettlers and refugees in various ways. ZIM is an association of immigrant organizations and local clubs in a social hotspot area of Erfurt with the aim to improve communication between different population groups, enrich opportunities for leisure-time activities and create opportunities to build social relationships between locals and migrants.