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Although Germany can look back on a decades-long history of immigration, the subject of the accreditation (or ‘recognition’/in German: Anerkennung) of qualifications that have been acquired abroad…

Alongside the previously cited demographic pressure, lobbying by industry and increasingly public debate on the inadequate accreditation system in Germany has led to the need for political action.

In the context of the discussion on the accreditation of qualifications acquired abroad, various scholarly studies have made it clear that there is a connection between the recognition of…

Accreditation practice in Germany is marked by federalism, because as an educational topic it falls in the area of the sovereignty of the Bundesländer.

Responsible for carrying out the accreditation procedure are regional accrediting agencies. In Germany as a whole there are more than 600 of these.

On December 12, 2011 the “Accreditation Act” was published in the German federal law gazette and on April 1, 2012 it went into effect.

“The accreditation act is a milestone in integration policy,” the Federal Minister of Education Annette Schavan emphasized when the accreditation act went into effect (BAMF 2012b).

The German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) bundles together its accreditation agencies on a cross-Länder basis.

The Act for the Improvement of the Establishment and Recognition of Occupational Qualifications Acquired Abroad which took effect in April 2012 establishes for the first time a general legal right to…

Here you can find references for the Policy Brief "Procedures for the Assessment of Qualifications Acquired Abroad in Transition" by Daria Braun.