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The new integration agreement at a glance: Clear focus on jobs to boost integration Improved use of asylum and transition phase, including better screening of refugees’ skills Refugees should be considered ready for work Intensify and make the integration programme better targeted. Still up to five years of Danish language teaching and early access to intensive workplace-targeted measures. Refugees not ready for work will be offered programmes aimed at finding, adapting and executing apprenticeships with wage subsidies. The final aim is traditional employment. Part of the activity should be in a workplace. The model’s concrete content will be developed More business-related Danish language training Strengthened workplace service in municipal job centres Better frameworks to help businesses employ refugees, including a new two year long integration education (IGU), which builds on existing agreements and student salary levels Source: Ministry of Employment; Read the agreement (in Danish)

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