mutual understanding and respect, to identify similarities and to overcome
prejudices. Further, a campaign called "Interculturality and Multilingualism — An
Opportunity"
("Interkulturalitat and Mehrsprachigkeit — eine Chance!, to assist
children and teachers in dealing with linguistic and cultural diversity in their own
environments was launched. The Public Employment Service also uses diversity
management as a labour-market policy tool to promote respectful treatment, by,
inter alia, hiring of personnel with migration backgrounds and special training
courses for employees.
Another government project is the increase of the percentage of migrants within
the police force. Information campaigns and events are organized to that end. A
career with the police is open to all applicants with Austrian citizenship who pass a
relevant selection procedure regardless of their ethnic origin. A first initiative was
launched two years ago by the Vienna Provincial Police Command entitled "Vienna
needs you"
("Wien brauchtbich") which was quite successful.
I thank you for your attention.