The aim of Austria's education policy is to create and ensure equality of opportunities for all regardless of their linguistic, social or cultural background. For instance, migrant edcuation in Austrian schools is based on three pillars: support structures in German as Second language, mother tongue teaching and intercultural education to promote understanding, tolerance and mutual respect. However, statistics have shown that the drop-out rate before the end of the compulsory school years amounts 15 % of students with migration background compared to 5% of the Austrian students. In addition, the drop-out rate of girls is higher than of boys with migration background. In order to effectively address those challenges, a National Plan of Action on Integration was adopted in 2010. It includes specific measures like improvement of teachers training in intercultural skills, the promotion of individualized forms of teaching as well as the promotion of pre-school attendance for children with migration background in order to raise the level of German language skills before entering the school system. Moreover, specific programmes have been designed to support minority children as well as their parents. One example is the programme "Mothers learn German" offering German language courses for immigrant women. Another initiated project is MIKA which stands for migration-skills-literacy and addresses the problematic issue of illiteracy amongst immigrants. Female immigrants are particularly affected by this phenomenon. The project aims at increasing the literacy rate through courses, awareness raising and the creation of networks amongst different actors at all levels. Furthermore, learning centres providing female immigrants a variety of educational measures with the aim to support them on the way to autonomy have been established. An additional principle of our education policy is gender equality which is constantly mainstreamed and implemented into our school system. To give an example, Austria has introduced in 2007 Gender Days focusing on topics like "Gender stereotypes" or "Migration and Gender" and aiming at raising I thank you.