With the Annual Report, the Chairwoman of the Board of the Association and Director of the Deutsches Jugendinstitut presents to the Board of Trustees, in accordance with Section 12, Paragraph 11 of the Statutes of the Deutsches Jugendinstitut e.V., the summary of the achievements of the past year. At the same time, this synopsis of the DJI's activities in the year under review provides the interested public, the professional community and the DJI's sponsors, in particular the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), with an insight into the Institute's diverse range of tasks and topics, institutional contexts and structural framework conditions.