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On December 11, 2025, the results of the project ‘Support for the implementation of the Act to Strengthen Children and Youth (KJSG) ‘ were presented at the Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Seniors, Women, and Youth. In a hybrid event, the project team presented a roadmap and guidelines to support municipalities on the path to inclusive solutions. The aim of the project was to aid municipalities in achieving a more unified approach between youth welfare and integration assistance services for young people with disabilities.

After four years of intensive work, the results of the project ‘Support for the implementation of the Act to Strengthen Children and Youth (KJSG): Conversion of Administrative Structures in the Area of Integration Assistance’ have now been published. The roadmap and the five accompanying guidelines offer local authorities comprehensive support in converting the administrative structures for the integration assistance of young people. All interested parties can now find the documents online.

How can knowledge be managed in public administration in such a way that it remains available in the long term and really supports employees in their day-to-day work? This is the question addressed by our new research project.

On 27 November 2025, the NIPAG welcomed a high-ranking Mongolian delegation consisting of members of parliament, leading scientists and government representatives to Speyer. The meeting, which was organised by the Hanns Seidel Foundation, focused on the exchange of information on regulatory impact assessment.

The NIPAG evaluates the higher monetary thresholds and the new pilot project for awarding direct contracts to start-ups under Baden-Württemberg’s VwV Beschaffung, and analyzes their effects.

The NIPAG evaluated the Freedom of Information Act of Schleswig-Holstein. Recommendations were developed to improve implementation and reduce administrative burdens.

Based on a Senate resolution from April 2024, stipulating the implementation of a youth-check, NIPAG was commissioned by the Senate Department for Education, Youth, and Family Affairs to develop a Berlin youth-check between September 2024 and July 2025.

The Competence Centre Youth-Check (ComYC), a project of the National Institute for Public Administration Germany (NIPAG), presented its third report at an event attended by Germanys Federal Minister for Youth, Karin Prien, and members of the German parliament Jasmina Hostert (SPD) and Ralph Edelhäußer (CSU). The report "Youth-friendly policymaking with the youth-check: A review of the 20th legislative period" looks back at youth-friendly regulatory impact assessment in the previous legislative period.

In September 2025, the project commissioned by the Saxon State Ministry of Justice to evaluate the Saxon Regulatory Control Council Act was launched. By the end of March 2026, the National Institute for Public Administration Germany (NIPAG) will examine the effectiveness of the Saxon Regulatory Control Council’s work using qualitative and quantitative methods.

On 29 September 2025, Dr Jonas Botta, Research Associate at the National Institute for Public Administration Germany (NIPAG), gave expert evidence before the Committee on Internal Affairs of the Berlin House of Representatives regarding the planned reform of the General Security and Public Order Act in Berlin (ASOG). His statement focused in particular on legal authorisations that are especially sensitive from a fundamental rights perspective — specifically, the provisions on the training and testing of AI systems (§ 42d ASOG-E) and automated data analysis (§ 47a ASOG-E).