Integration Concept

Participation events „Gemeinsam. Verantwortung. Leben.“

In the future, the existing Dresden integration concept will consist of two parts. On the one hand, there is the "Analysis of the Municipal Spheres of Activity", which consideres the development of the past years, and on the other hand, there is the "Dresden Action Plan on Integration 2022-2026", which will contain future goals and measures of the integration work in Dresden.

Review of the participation event

Despite sunny weekend weather, around 70 committed and interested people met on June 27 and July 3 for the participation events "Gemeinsam. Verantwortung. Leben.“ to update the (previous) Dresden Integration Concept. Among them were numerous people from Dresden - whether born here or immigrants - as well as various institutions and local political actors.

In the future, the new Dresden Integration Concept will consist of an "Analysis of Municipal Spheres of Activity" and the "Dresden Action Plan on Integration 2021 to 2026“. All committed people were welcomed by Ms. Winkler at the beginning and introduced to the topic. We were very pleased about the greetings of the board of the Dachverband Sächsischer migrantenorganisationen e. V. The Dachverband has actively participated in the update of the integration concept, through the creation of its own position paper. Finally, in the first part of the events, the Analysis was discussed in three different working groups, each with a speaker, and comments could be made.

During the lunch break, in addition to delicious soups from the catering company "Zafran", there were information displays and pin boards for all participants to contribute further ideas and comments. Afterwards, proposals for goals and measures of the new Action Plan were developed and discussed in the three working groups. After a short conclusion and outlook in the plenum, the participation events ended at 4 pm.

The event on the update of the (previous) Dresden Integration Concept was a complete success in terms of content. Proposals regarding the increase of diversity among the employees of the city administration, the stronger consideration of homeless EU citizens in the integration work and the improvement of parental work in daycare centers and schools for immigrant children and adolescents and their families, and other numerous ideas for the Analysis and the Action Plan could be formulated.

We would like to take this opportunity to once again thank everyone who was actively involved in the participation events, the speakers, helpers from Besht Yeshiva, "Zafran" Catering Dresden and the staff of the Office of the Commissioner for Integration and Foreigners.

To get an impression of the events, you can find some pictures as well as presentations of the participation events here.

Introductory presentation of participation events (*.pdf, 777 KB)

Final presentation of participation events (*.pdf, 744 KB)

**Opening of the participation event "Gemeinsam.Verantwortung.Leben."**

**Information displays for the participation event**

**Working Group 1: Work and Profession, Intercultural Opening of the City Administration, Participation**

**Working Group 3: Language, Housing, Early Childhood Education, School Education, Child and Youth Welfare**

Action Plan Integration 2022 to 2026

In the summer of 2021, the Integration and Foreigners' Commissioner and her team worked intensively on the first draft of the "Integration Action Plan". The action plan was developed in cooperation with the various offices, the internal working groups for the implementation of the integration concept as well as on the basis of a position paper of the umbrella organisation of Saxon migrant organisations and the three public participation events. The "Integration Action Plan" presents concrete measures and goals for the thirteen municipal fields of action.

A short outlook:

The completed "Analysis of Municipal Fields of Action" was presented to the City Council in September 2021 for information and can be downloaded here.

In Autumm 2021, the draft of the "Integration Action Plan" has been dealt with by the working groups on the fields of action and the coordination group for the implementation of the integration concept. Comments and additions were formulated and incorporated.

Afterwards, all departments and municipal enterprises of the city administration dealt intensively with the "Integration Action Plan" and submit their comments. At the beginning of February 2022, the revised draft of the "Integration Action Plan" was submitted to the city council's committees.

The preliminary advisory bodies of the City Council discussed and approved the action plan from March to mid-May 2022.

The city council is expected to pass a resolution in June 2022. After that, the action plan will enter the implementation phase. The concrete implementation of the goals and measures will generally be the responsibility of the departments and municipal enterprises.

Currently, the Integration and Foreigners' Commissioner is working intensively on the composition of the future coordination group and the action field-related working groups that will accompany the implementation process of the action plan in the city administration.

At the same time, a brochure entitled "Living. Responsibility. Together. - Action Plan Integration 2022 to 2026" is being prepared. The "Analysis of Municipal Fields of Action" and the action plan will be published there. The brochure will also be published as a barrier-free file, as well as in English and in an easy-to-understand German language by the end of 2022.

Here you can find the current Integration Action Plan:

Integration Action Plan

Information

Integration Concept 2015 - 2020 (expired)

Dresden was always city in which migration, meaning immigration and emigration, played an important role. The city can thank immigrants for many of its important developments.

One in twelve residents of Dresden is “a person with an immigration background.” These are people who have come to Germany from other countries, as well as their children and grandchildren. It is not important whether they had a German citizenship from the beginning, were naturalized, or still have a passport from another a country. People who have an immigrated parent and were born in Germany also have a “immigration background.” To simplify matters, the word “immigrant” will be used for all of the groups named above.

The integration concept, 2015 - 2020, is divided into multiple components. It describes the rules and goals of integration politics in Dresden. Then, it looks at the current situation in eleven areas and future tasks. The city administration, its offices, and the city council have to implement these measures in the next year.