If employers in developing countries and emerging economies are unable to find suitable candidates for key positions, they can ask CIM to supply an international expert. In response, CIM places skilled personnel and experienced managers from the German and EU labour market. All such experts receive a salary top-up from Federal Government funds. This arrangement gives ministries, organisations and companies working in the development sector in Asia, Africa, South and Central America and South-East Europe access to technical and managerial expertise that they would otherwise be unable to source from the local labour market. The role of those experts is then to pass on their knowledge and, by doing so, to help bring about important changes.

We believe that migration offers great potential for sustainable development. The expertise, ideas, experience and contacts that migrants bring with them can help their countries of origin to meet the challenges of the future. CIM supports migrants who wish to put the knowledge and skills they have acquired in Germany to good use in their country of origin.