In an interview with Radio Fluchtpunkt on Antenne Münster, BGP speaker Lea Rau discusses EU migration policy.more

Berlin Governance Platform founder Gesine Schwan illustrates how municipal development councils strengthen democracy and the common good.more

What do the German parties, which belong to different political groups in the EU Parliament, think about issues of intra-European solidarity and the distribution of people seeking protection? We asked them.more

At the beginning of April, the European Parliament voted in favour of the reform of the Common European Asylum System, thereby sealing that this reform will become law. The European Commission and the member states will be...more

Our municipal development councils have been awarded a seal of approval for administrative innovation by the German Association of Towns and Municipalities and the Re:Form initiative.more

Building on the experience gained in the pilot project "Shaping the future together locally!" 2021 - 2023, the concept of municipal development councils is presented in detail for the first time.more

Rottenburg Municipal Development Council presents recommendations - Deutschlandfunk reports.more

With the help of an algorithm-supported process, we successfully matched and relocated a group of 26 Ukrainian asylum seekers from Poland with the German municipalities this week.more

How can we support citizens in their self-efficacy as political subjects and arm them against the simplistic populism of the AFD? In the podcast "Politisches Feuilleton" from Deutschlandfunk Kultur...more

For the podcast Transit Talk by the Institut Solidarische Moderne, our managing director Daphne Büllesbach discussed the topic of the "Transit of the Future" with political scientist Raul Zelik, Lisa Jaspers from the Municipalism Working Group and Gesine Schwan, President of the Berlin Governance Platform...more

The Re:Match project was portrayed in a new WDR audio report, among other things about the project status in our partner municipality Düsseldorf and our goal of developing a demand-oriented and individualised distribution mechanism using an algorithm.more

The Re:Match project was presented in a new ZEIT ONLINE article: How can refugees in Germany be better distributed? Algorithms will soon help: People say what they need and the...more

Cities are important places for understanding migrant integration and refugee protection around the world. Although nation states usually have the authority over the selection and reception of...more

The project "Municipal citizen participation in Lusatia", funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), dealt with the question of what role citizen participation at municipal level can play in...more

In contrast to the 2017 federal elections, migration and asylum policy issues only played a subordinate role in this year's election campaign. Nevertheless, there is hope that a new government after the elections will be able to meet the challenges...more

Cities and municipalities across Europe have shown their voluntary willingness to take in people seeking protection in recent years. These welcoming municipalities are growing in number and, together with the many...more

On 25 and 26 June, mayors from across Europe will come together with civil society actors in Palermo for a Conference of Cities for a Europe of Solidarity to discuss solutions for the reception of...more

In 2017, guidelines for good participation in housing construction were developed in a project between the state-owned housing associations and the non-profit HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform. Since then, the state-owned housing associations have been applying the...more

The tight housing market is a real problem in many cities, especially in cities with a high proportion of tenants such as Berlin. 13 representatives from politics & administration, business and organised civil society...more