National Action Plan Integration

Policy Response DateJanuary 31, 2012 Country: Germany General Type: Discrimination, Institutional discrimination, Equality/Integration Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-migrant/xenophobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Migrants, Refugees, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Linguistic minorities, Asylum seekers, Africans/black people, National minorities Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Policing - law enforcement, Employment - labour market, Housing, Health and social protection, Education, Culture, Media, Internet, Sport, Political discourse -parties - orgs, Political participation, Anti-discrimination, Anti-racism, Integration - social cohesion, Daily life, Religion

The National Integration Plan of 2007 provides a common framework for all integration policies of the central government, the federal states, communities and civil society actors. The National Integration Plan was converted into the National Action Plan in 2011. The National Action Plan aims at formulating concrete, obligatory and testable integration goals and initiatives. The German chancellor presented the National Action Plan on the fifth Integration Summit in Berlin on 31 January 2012. The Plan was developed within eleven forums for dialogue under the auspices of the federal ministries (Bundesministerien) or the Commissioner of the Federal Government (Beauftragter der Bundesregierung) (BAMF 2011, p.19/28/30; BMI 2011).


Following topics have been discussed (BMI 2011):
- Early childhood education
- Education, training, further education
- Labour market, working life
- Migrants in the public service
- Health, care
- Local integration
- Language – integration courses
- Sports
- Active citizenship
- Media
- Culture


“Strengthening the participation of migrants and minorities in the media has been one of the priorities of the National Integration Plan. Concrete steps have been taken with, amongst other activities, the foundation of the Zentrum für mediale Integration [Centre for Media Integration, ZmI] at the Technical University of Dortmund in 2007. The ZmI seeks to promote diversity in the media production and to increase the number of journalists with a migration or minority background. These goals should be achieved, firstly, by analyzing the preconditions of a successful promotion of ethnic diversity in the media and, secondly, by developing training offers and qualifications measures specifically for migrants” (Peucker 2010, p. 27).

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