Jan 30, 2019
Federal Government appoints TU Dresden’s Professor Hans Vorländer
In today’s meeting, the Federal Cabinet appointed the political scientist Hans Vorländer from TU Dresden to a newly established expert commission, which deals with the “framework conditions for the ability to integrate”. The commission comprises a total of 24 academics and experts from the federal, state and local governments. The Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community, the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs as well as the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration have jointly proposed the members to the Federal Cabinet.
The aim of the commission is to formulate the framework conditions pertaining to economic policies, labour law policies, as well as social and democratic policies for integration, and to submit proposals for standards on how these can be improved. To this end, the commission will focus on structural issues on the one hand, such as the provision of public services, and socio-cultural issues, such as the communication of values, on the other. It will also analyse how the framework conditions can be designed in such a way as to strengthen societal cohesion. The commission is thus dedicated to both current issues of migration, such as refugees and EU citizens, and to immigrants who have already been living in Germany for a long time.
The commission will summarise its recommendations in the form of a report by the end of 2020. The Federal Government will then submit this report to the German Bundestag. The recommendations are not just directed towards the federal ministries, but also towards the federal states, local authorities and civil society.
Hans Vorländer has been a Professor of Political Science at TU Dresden since 1993. At the university, he is the head of the Mercator Forum Migration and Democracy (MIDEM) as well as the head of the Centre for the Study of Constitutionalism and Democracy. He is also a member of the Expert Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration and of the Advisory Board “Civil Security Research” of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Hans Vorländer has worked in numerous research projects on challenges of political integration and social cohesion.
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