QuIK Dialoge

Dialogue with experts from municipal practice: What can we learn from the migration- and climate crisis?

Background
In two finished projects StadtumMig (IRS, IOER and others, 2019-2024, focus: integration policy) and ExTrass (IRS and others, 2017-2024, focus: climate policy), transdisciplinary cooperation with administrations and civil society actors in the cities of Cottbus, Halle/Salle, Potsdam, Remscheid, Schwerin and Würzburg examined how administrations reacted to disruptive events such as the immigration of Syrian refugees since 2015 or the heat waves during summer in 2018 and 2019. This showed that key players in the administrations quickly took action and initiated new approaches and structures with civil society actors. However, the long-term stabilisation of the changes and the implementation of integration and climate policy as cross-cutting municipal tasks proved to be a problem.

Objective
The aim of the project is to identify potentials and obstacles for administrations to build transformative capacities using the example of the two policy fields of integration and climate policy and to derive recommendations for anchoring them as cross-cutting tasks.

Approach

  • Systematic comparative evaluation of the results of the projects StadtumMig and ExTrass.
  • Supplementary interviews with municipal representatives.
  • Transdisciplinary, cross-city and cross-departmental exchange with administrative staff from the fields of work concerned with integration and climate change (in particular environmental protection, urban planning, social planning) from the partner cities of both projects (strategy workshop).
  • Development of effective strategies for dealing with and dismantling barriers for the long-term establishment of the policy areas as cross-cutting tasks and conceptualisation of the necessary work steps.
  • Design and testing of model formats for the low-threshold communication of necessary transformation knowledge in the administrations.

Results
On the one hand, cross-departmental strategies for establishing integration and climate policy as cross-cutting municipal tasks are compiled, supported with selected national and international comparative examples. On the other hand, recommendations on formats for low-threshold knowledge transfer in the field of integration and climate policy are to be derived, leading to a guideline for interdepartmental communication.

The Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development is jointly funded by the federal government and the federal states.

FS Sachsen

This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.