Tl;dr
- Send an email with the subject “FZ” and the required data (full name as in your passport, registration address, date of birth) to fz.jugendhackt@posteo.de. You will then receive a confirmation letter from Remy.
- Apply for your enhanced certificate of conduct and make an appointment with Remy for inspection via BigBlueButton. Do not send any scans or photos.
Because we are legally obliged to do so.
Jugend hackt is a joint project of medialepfade.org - Verein für Medienbildung e.V. and the Open Knowledge Foundation e.V. As an educational program for young people, we are legally obliged to obtain an enhanced certificate of conduct from every person who is active with Jugend hackt - whether as a volunteer or as an employee.
In contrast to the general certificate of conduct, the extended certificate of conduct provides information about judicially determined offenses against sexual self-determination.
To protect our participants.
We want to offer all our participants, mentors, helpers and organizers a safe space. To this end, we have developed a comprehensive protection concept for our events. An important component of this is the inspection of the enhanced certificates of conduct of all volunteers and full-time employees in the network.
To protect our community.
We are a growing network and are happy to welcome anyone who joins us. By inspecting the enhanced certificate of conduct as part of our protection concept, we make it publicly visible that we are actively committed to protecting children and young people from sexualized violence and that there is no place for perpetrators in our network.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Remy via mail fz.jugendhackt@posteo.de! They are happy to help.
The following information is from the offical page of the Federal Ministry of Justice.
An enhanced certificate of conduct is required by individuals who wish to work with children and young people (e.g. at schools or sports clubs). It contains entries that are of particular significance when assessing if individuals are eligible to work with children and young people.
When applying for the enhanced certificate of conduct, you need a confirmation letter from the institution that requires you to show the certificate - this is to prove that the legal conditions for its issuance are met. You can get the confirmation letter from Remy at fz.jugendhackt@posteo.de, your Lab Lead or the local organisation that runs the Jugend hackt Lab.
You can apply for an enhanced certificate of conduct („Erweitertes Führungszeugnis“) in the following ways:
You will receive a European certificate of conduct if you are (or are also) a national of another Member State of the European Union or of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It contains, alongside the certificate of conduct disclosing convictions from Germany, information on convictions recorded in your home country in the original language, to the extent that this is permitted under the law of the country in question.
The European certificate of conduct is available for personal use, for submission to an authority, or as an enhanced certificate of conduct. You will need to state that you need the enhanced certificate of conduct in your application.
see Sec. 30b Federal Central Criminal Register Act
If you apply for a European certificate of conduct, the Federal Office of Justice will request information from the registers of your home country, so that this information can be included on your certificate of conduct. The information received will not be verified or translated.
The relevant provisions of European law mean that the other country has a period of twenty working days in which to provide the information requested.
The other country will be bound by its own domestic law when answering a request for information from its registers. Some EU Member States have not (yet) put in place legal arrangements which enable information from their criminal registers to be provided for use in a European certificate of conduct. Since 1 January 2021, in provisional application of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, this also applies to nationals of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.