The Returning Experts Programme supports the professional integration of university graduates and experienced experts from developing, emerging and transition countries, who have completed their training in Germany and are interested in returning to their countries of origin. The focus is on placing professionals in areas of particular relevance to development policy. In addition to placement and advisory services, the programme offers financial support to experts interested in returning to their own countries. Employers, too, can benefit from programme services such as assistance with recruiting employees.

The programme package is geared to:

• promoting international migration as a positive factor in development;
• promoting sustainable know-how transfer through the professional integration of returning experts, and;
• creating a win-win situation with returning experts as bridge-builders for international economic and development cooperation.