Transparency regarding the new Match’In process and scientific monitoring of the project are important to us. Throughout the entire project period, we are also working on the accompanying research at the universities of Hildesheim and Erlangen-Nuremberg. We focus on the following:

1. The evaluation of the implementation of the Match’In procedure in the participating federal states and municipalities.

2. The analysis of what the use of a digital tool means for the assignment of protection seekers, in form of a technology assessment.

This way, we want to find out what the Match’In algorithm achieves with regard to its actual goal, how the implementation of the newly developed procedure works, and what effects the project has beyond that.

The results for the 2021-2025 project phase were published in a policy paper. The results have been available since April 8th 2025 on the website of Stiftung Mercator, which funded the project during this period: Link to the results (Stiftung Mercator) (in German only).