Welcome Centers in Baden-Württemberg

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The twelve Welcome Centers in Baden-Württemberg

In Baden-Württemberg, there are 12 Welcome Centers for securing skilled workers from abroad, which have been funded by the Ministry of Economy, Labor and Tourism Baden-Württemberg since 2014. 11 of these are Welcome Centers in the regions that operate across all sectors. There is also a state-wide Welcome Center for the social economy for regulated healthcare and social professions such as nurses, doctors and educators. The Baden-Württemberg Welcome Centers are provided by various institutions – business development agencies, chambers of industry and commerce, local authorities, but also at social institutions.

The Welcome Centers serve as contact points for international professionals and students, supporting them on their arrival in their new home country. They also support small and medium-sized companies that want to attract and retain international professionals in the long term. The Welcome Centers are independent, state funded and offer all services without any fees to their customers.

The aim is to attract more international professionals to the Baden-Württemberg economy, to support them and their families in their arrival and integration and to strengthen the culture of welcome and recognition. The Welcome Centers are working together in a Baden-Württemberg wide network. Therefore they can support migrants and companies all over Baden-Württemberg. With the state network, Baden-Württemberg has an almost nationwide structure of contact points that is unique in Germany.

Flyer German-English

Flyer German-Spanish

Coordination office of the Welcome Centers in Baden-Württemberg

The coordination office of the state network of Welcome Centers in Baden-Württemberg, which has been funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Tourism since 2019, is managed by Dr. Verena Andrei, Head of the Welcome Service Region Stuttgart, and Eileen Ammar (assistant). The tasks of the coordination office include planning and organizing state-wide network meetings, acquiring and maintaining partners, establishing cooperations, representing the network at various events, internal networking of the Welcome Centers via platforms and acting as the first point of contact for the Ministry.

Dr. Verena Andrei

Leiterin Welcome Center Stuttgart und Welcome Service Region Stuttgart

Telefon: +49 711 22835-880

verena.andrei@region-stuttgart.de

Eileen Ammar

Welcome Service Region Stuttgart – Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Telefon: +49 711 22835-875

eileen.ammar@region-stuttgart.de

Joint online events

The Welcome Centers Baden-Württemberg jointly organize events for international professionals, students and companies.
Next events:

Date and time	Title	Target group(s)	Language(s)	Registration/Further information
11.03.2025, 6–8 p.m. (online and hyprid)	Hybrid-Seminar Bewerbung	international professionals and students	german	Registration and further information
12.03.2025, 4–6 p.m.	Bienvenidos a Baden-Wuerttemberg: Planifica tu llegada y aprende alemán	international professionals and students	spanish	Registration Further information
19.03.2025, 2–3:30 p.m.	The Social Security System in Germany	international professionals and students	english	Registration
24.03.2025, 6–8 p.m.	Informationen zur Ausbildung in Deutschland	international professionals and students	russian	Registration
25.03.2025, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Das Fachkräfteeinwanderungsgesetz – neue Möglichkeiten für Unternehmen	Owners and managers of craft businesses, HR managers	german	Registration and further information
26.03.2025, 3–5 p.m.	Make it in Heilbronn-Franken – Making Plans about living and working in Germany	international professionals and students	english	Registration and further information
28.03.2025, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Recruiting: Internationale Mitarbeitende gewinnen – aus Indien und Nepal	Companies, HR managers	german	Registration and further information
02.04.2025, 4–6 p.m.	Bienvenidos a Baden-Wuerttemberg: Qué visa necesitas para Alemania	international professionals and students	spanish	Registration and further information
09.04.2025, 4–6 p.m.	Application documents	international professionals and students	english	Registration and further information
10.04.2025, 9 a.m. –12 p.m.	Barcamp: Fachkräftesicherung mit internationalen Fachkräften aus dem In- und Ausland	Companies, HR managers	german	Registration Further information
24.04.2024, 4–6 p.m.	Job Interview	international professionals and students	english	Registration and further information
30.04.2025, 6–8 p.m.	Successful Application and Working in the Stuttgart Region	international professionals and students	english	Registration Further information

For companies

Online event series: Employing international professionals

With this free series of events, the Baden-Württemberg network of Welcome Centers aims to inform small and medium-sized companies on the topics of recruiting, recognition/qualification and integration.

You can find an overview of all dates for companies here:

Events for the social economy

Events on regulated health and social professions such as nurses, doctors and educators can be found here.

For professionals

Event series Bienvenidos a Baden-Wuerttemberg in spanish

With the online seminar series, the Welcome Centers Baden-Württemberg want to support Spanish-speaking skilled workers and young immigrants in Germany and abroad who want to live and work in Germany. The focus is on topics such as training and studying, looking for and applying for jobs, conducting job interviews, visas and the recognition of foreign qualifications.

You can find an overview of the dates here:

Events on living and working in Germany in russian

With this series of seminars, the Welcome Centers Baden-Württemberg would like to support Ukrainian and Russian-speaking refugees in arriving and integrating into the labor market. Topics include, for example:

Training in Germany
Working and applying in Germany for new citizens
Recognition of foreign qualifications

Events for professionals abroad

Events for Indian professionals in Maharashtra

As part of the labor market cooperation between the state of Baden-Württemberg and the state of Maharashtra (India), the Welcome Centers act as initial points of contact and regularly offer webinars.

Events with Goethe Institutes and Chambers of Commerce Abroad
To prepare foreign skilled workers for migration to Baden-Württemberg and subsequent employment, the Welcome Centers Baden-Württemberg offer webinars with the Goethe Institutes (pre-integration project) and Pro Recognition abroad.

Events for the social economy

Events on regulated health and social professions such as nurses, doctors and educators can be found here.

Public relations

The joint public relations of the Welcome Centers Baden-Württemberg include the organization and implementation of events (e.g. a stand at the German-French Working Day or the federal meeting of the Welcome Centers) in order to make the network and its services visible and to position the Welcome Centers as central points of contact for foreign professionals and companies in Baden-Württemberg.
Various PR activities – such as articles in various media or the presence on social media – present the network’s services and successes to a broad audience.

A man hands two ladies a yellow folder — Handover of the funding certificate for the Welcome Service Region Stuttgart for the 2024/2025 funding period

About 30 people stand on a staircase and laugh into the cameras in front of the house of economy in Stuttgart — Handover of the funding certificate for the Welcome Service Region Stuttgart for the 2024/2025 funding period

Balance sheet of the Welcome Centers Baden-Württemberg 2023

In 2023, 5893 international professionals from over 140 countries were consulted, 90 % from third countries and 10 % from the EU. The number of consultations was 6736. The Welcome Centers Baden-Württemberg reached a total of 6796 international professionals through their own and external events. They also supported 967 companies with 1181 consultations. A total of 1337 companies were reached through events.

The Welcome Centers Baden-Württemberg are part of the Baden-Württemberg marketing campaign THE LÄND.