Austrian integration price 2025: Submit projects now!

Austrian integration price 2025: Submit projects now!

Integration plays a central role in social cohesion in Austria. In 2025, the Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF) awarded the Austrian integration price that rewarded innovative projects for the integration of refugees, displaced persons and immigrants. This was announced today, June 17, 2025. The aim of the price is to distinguish initiatives, promote the essential foundations of living together, promote Austrian values ​​and culture, provide support for learning German and facilitate the quick start of gainful employment and social integration.

The price has been awarded since 2021 and includes several categories. These include projects of companies and organizations that take care of integration into the labor market, as well as initiatives to promote the integration and self -determination of women and girls with a migration background. Projects that proceed against anti -Semitic attitudes in the context of integration and migration are also particularly observed, and those who convey knowledge about democracy and the rule of law to young people. In addition, sports projects for the integration of refugees and immigrants are important in the sports landscape.

submission deadlines and conditions of participation

projects can be submitted by August 31, 2025. A large number of actors, including volunteer organizations, sports clubs, schools, cities and municipalities, companies and individuals, are allowed to participate. Further information is available on the website of the integration price at www.integrationspris.at .

The ÖIF is a fund of the Republic of Austria that offers integrative measures for asylum and subsidiary protectionists as well as immigrants in various integration centers in all state capitals. The target groups of the ÖIF not only include entitled to asylum, but also displaced persons and people with a migration background. Since 2017, the Integration Act has defined central framework conditions for integration in Austria. The ÖIF offers numerous measures, including German course funding, values ​​and orientation courses as well as offers for professional integration.

Current figures on the asylum and migration situation

In connection with the challenges of integration, it is important to take the current figures on asylum and migration situation into account in Austria. According to a bulletin of the ÖIF, a total of 3,593 positive decisions in the area of ​​asylum and subsidiary protection were made in April 2025, which means a decrease of 62 percent compared to the previous year. This has been the lowest value since the beginning of 2021. The majority of positive decisions have been awarded Afghan, followed by Somalier and Syrians. The number of asylum applications is also declining: in 2025 a total of 6,056 asylum applications were made, which corresponds to a decrease of 35 percent compared to the previous year

The data show that children submitted 51 percent of all applications and that only 33 percent of the applications come from newly traveled asylum seekers. These developments underline the challenges in front of which the ÖIF and the integration system faces, while at the same time emphasizing the need to promote integration measures and projects. The ÖIF continuously informs the public about the current situation in terms of integration, asylum and migration in Austria.