The AnkER centres

Based on a fact-finding visit to Germany conducted between 1 and 5 April 2019, ECRE has published a report which analyses the AnkER model implemented in the Federal State of Bavaria from the perspective of the asylum and Dublin procedure and return on the one hand, and reception and detention conditions on the other.

The concept of an AnkER centre is to be understood as a single location concentrating all relevant authorities and actors in the process, as well as accommodating asylum seekers. The aim of the centralisation of all relevant actors is an acceleration and linkage of the asylum, Dublin and, where relevant, return procedure. In the context of a coalition agreement from February 2018 and the implementation of a “plan for asylum” elaborated in the State of Bavaria on 5 June 2018, AnkER centres have been set up in each district of Bavaria.