📋 Tender Overview
The Federal Office for Sect Issues to which a total of 1637 people turned in 2020 has been available as a central service and contact point for all private individuals institutions and state institutions since 1998. Since the beginning of its activity information has been gathered on more than 2800 different religious and ideological communities organizations or offers. Despite numerous corona-related restrictions the number of contacts in 2020 remained at a high level. The legally recognized churches and religious communities do not fall within the competence of the Federal Agency.In addition to the most objective and confidential information and documentation possible the facility offers individual psychosocial counseling 462 cases in 2020 prevention work as well as training and further education measures. Due to the high level of interest in certain topics media inquiries again increased significantly and thus formed an important focus of work. It showed how much the federal agency is perceived as a competent contact person in print radio and TV for research and interview inquiries.As far as the workforce is concerned the situation remains tense due to the 20 cut in the overall budget in recent years according to the report. Despite the fact that the number of consultancy cases and new tasks has hardly changed the team consists of five employees as in the previous year with only two full-time and three part-time.
