Integration Committee
The Integration Committee established in 2002 is the Nuremberg City Council committee responsible for all issues concerning people with a migration background in Nuremberg.
The Committee is a forum which deals with concerns brought up both by the foreigners and by the repatriates resident in Nuremberg. Establishing this forum was intended to be an unambiguous statement: that integration policy is not predominantly a question of nationality (Turkish, Russian, German etc.), but that it is rather concerned with the life situation a particular person experiences.
For this reason, the Integration Committee receives reports from very diverse sectors of municipal activity. This includes e.g. projects in children's day care centres, in schools, in youth work, in job training, in non-school education, in cultural work, in housing, in economic policy, in personnel policy and in senior citizens' policy.
On the other hand, the Committee is the relevant body whose task it is to discuss the part of the new municipal integration programme worked out by the municipal administration, to expand and change it accordingly, and then to submit it to the City Council for adoption.
The Committee comprises members of the CSU, SPD and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen party groups, members of the Advisory Council for Immigration and Integration, as well as experts on the "integration" topic. It is chaired by the Lord Mayor. As a rule, the Integration Committee meets four times per year, and its meetings are open to the public.