We would like to highlight the opening of the ‘Zivilgesellschaftliche Fachstelle zur Identifizierung und Umsetzung besonderer Schutzbedarfe’, a Civil Society Expert Office for the Identification and Implementation of Special Protection Needs. The aim of this office is to strengthen the exchange between academia, politics, and practice, and to ensure effective knowledge transfer so that the special protection needs of refugees can be identified systematically and as early as possible.