The aim of this Peer Review was to present the German approaches to integrate long-term unemployed persons.

The number of long-term unemployed persons has stagnated at around one million in Germany since 2011, but with its “Opening up Opportunities - Ensuring Social Participation” concept the Federal Government has stepped up its focus to tackling long-term unemployment.

The event focused on how different measures can be used to fight long-term unemployment and the incentives used to enable job centres to focus on supporting the long-term unemployed.

It also provided opportunities for exchange with other European countries to discuss how effective networks can be established locally and regionally in order to work with long-term unemployed persons and what forms of cooperation are being set up.