Using an algorithm-based process, we successfully matched and relocated a group of 20 Ukrainian protection seekers from Poland with German municipalities this week.more

Are you part of your municipality's administration and looking for ways to tackle complex future issues together with stakeholders from different interest groups? The Berlin Governance Platform accompanies four municipalities until April 2025...more

The project Re:Match 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

Our new project Re:Match aims to pilot an innovative model for a better, human rights-based and more sustainable distribution of protection seekers in Europe, thus contributing to a solution for the current challenges in the...more

Cities are important sites for understanding migrant integration and refugee protection around the world. Although nation-states typically have authority over the selection and reception...more

Anja Mihr, director of the Center on Governance through Human Rights, has published her new book, Glocal Governance - How to govern in the Anthropocene. In this book, she looks at...more

The project "Municipal Citizen Participation in Lusatia", funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), addressed the question of what role citizen participation at the municipal level plays in the...more

From now on, municipalities with up to 50,000 inhabitants can apply to participate in the model project Municipal Development Councils. Between May 2022 and October 2023, the pilot project will support four partner municipalities in...more

In contrast to the 2017 federal election, migration and asylum policy issues played only a minor 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

Two weeks ahead of the G20 Summit in Rome and COP26 in Glasgow, Climate Transparency has published the Climate Transparency Report 2021 - the most comprehensive annual report on the climate activities of...more

Cities and municipalities across Europe have shown their willingness to welcome asylum seekers in recent years. These welcoming municipalities are growing in number and they, along with the many...more

Since 2015 there has been a lot of talking about the so-called refugee crisis in Europe. In fact, the crisis is the lack of access to protection through regulated, safe routes to Europe...more

On June 25 and 26, mayors from across Europe will join civil society actors in Palermo for a conference to discuss solutions for a welcoming Europe...more

We are happy to finally announce the date of our joint conference! The conference is organised by From the Sea to the City, a European civil society network in collaboration with the cities of Palermo and Potsdam...more

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

As part of the From the Sea to the City consortium, we are very pleased to release our first joint publication with key recommendations and best practices in the field of European migration....more

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