This has been jointly produced by the federal government, state and municipal governments, migrants’ organisations and civil society.The integration of migrants and descendants of migrants is a key responsibility of the German government. The National Action Plan on Integration takes a sustainable and structural approach to the issue.

The Action Plan takes the National Integration Plan one step further. It should make a big difference to the quality of integration. The Action Plan lays out clear objectives, which are verifiable and quantifiable, and stipulates concrete measures. This makes integration more compulsory.

The Integration Summit focused on language teaching, recruiting migrants to public-service posts, voluntary work and the media.

More migrants in public-service posts

The National Action Plan looks for the first time ever at the issue of recruiting migrants to public-service posts. The growing diversity of our country must also be appropriately reflected in the public service. We need more migrants in nurseries and schools, the police force and the fire brigade, and in public administration.

In order to achieve this goal appropriate steps are to be taken. Public-service employment is to be made more interesting for migrants, obstacles to the selection and recruitment of applicants who are themselves migrants or are descendants of migrants are to be eradicated, and public-service employees are to be made more aware of the advantages of intercultural diversity.